It has been well said that greatness is usually forged in the fires of affliction. God put Moses through the desert university of Sinai for forty years. Greatness comes through service. The head of the class is reached in God’s school by being servant of all. Holy decisions and high resolves are followed by severe […]
There is spiritual encouragement to be found in the obituary columns of Christian magazines. We read of long years of faithfulness to the Lord, of works carried out and accomplished in His name. The question arises: What will my life be worth when it is reviewed at its close? The obituary of Moses (Deut. 34:1-12) […]
When the Lord Jesus came into the world, the Jewish nation was divided into various religious and political camps: Herodians, Zealots, Pharisees, and Sadducees, for example. One prominent religious group which is not mentioned in the New Testament was the Essene community. This group of pious separatists had moved from the cities to rural enclaves […]
Marcus Whitman (1802-1847), was a direct descendant of John Whitman who sailed from England in the ship Confidence, December, 1638. Old John “feared God, hated covetousness and did good continually…” Marcus’ father, Beza Whitman, died in 1810, only 35 years old, leaving his young wife, Alice, to rear four sons and one daughter. Alice was […]
By Nebo’s lonely mountain, On this side Jordan’s wave, In a vale in the land of Moab There lies a lonely grave. And no man knows the sepulcher, And no man saw it e’er, For the angel of God upturned the sod And laid the dead man there. That was the grandest funeral That ever […]
There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality,” wrote John Keats in a letter to J. H. Reynolds. It was a similar impression that hundreds of attendees had as they left the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati after four days of “heaven on earth.” The ministry at Mission93, convened by CMML, drew […]
Take your minds back before the world was, before there was an angel serving in heaven or a star burning in space, before there was anything–but God–filling all in all, needing no one, needing nothing to fulfill the joy of the divine Persons. Humbling, isn’t it! God doesn’t need you and me. But wonderfully, He […]
In the summer of 1988, I was privileged to come under the ministry of Dr. David Gooding for the first time. I enjoyed it thoroughly and decided to make it my business to avail myself of the opportunity each summer to spend a week under the guidance of this able and humble servant of the […]
Time is increasingly mentioned a problem among Christians, isn’t it. “Not enough time,” we say. But what exactly is the problem with it? Is it that we don’t have enough time? Or is our problem with time that it is misused? In the home, we are told, the average father spends approximately seven minutes per […]