It has been said that water is life. Although not literally true, liquid water is an absolute necessity for life because the chemistry of life happens in water. Without water there is only the dry dust of death. It is hard to overstate the importance of water to life. In the ancient world, settlements sprang […]
Yes, He loves the people; all His saints are in Your hand; they sit down at Your feet; everyone receives Your words. Deuteronomy 33:3 A love for the Word of God is essential to a healthy Christian life. How can such a love be nurtured? I’d like to offer some practical advice after seventy years […]
On the human level, the situation in the home of Zacharias and Elizabeth was not unique. Many families longed for children. We can recall two similar cases: Abram and Sarai, and Elkanah and Hannah. But in both families, as with Zacharias and Elizabeth, divine intervention enabled the impossible to happen, resulting in the births of […]
What a wonderful experience it would be to have the Lord Jesus as a guest in your home! This was the case for Abraham in the Old Testament and for Martha, Mary, and Lazarus in the New. The Lord also went into the home of the two He met on the road to Emmaus, at […]
In 2 Samuel 23:14-17, we read a lovely account of three unnamed soldiers of David who, upon hearing him breathe a desire for water from the well of Bethlehem, broke through the camp of the Philistines, drew the water, and brought it to David. They had no obligation to do so. No one would have […]
For most of us, the word addiction has negative connotations. It brings to mind the excessive use of drugs or alcohol, or some type of anti-social behavior. But a family mentioned in the New Testament, the household of Stephanus, was addicted (1 Cor. 16:15-16). The KJV says that they were addicted to good works, while […]
On the night before He went to the cross, the Lord invited His disciples to join Him in celebrating the Passover feast. He had arranged all the details for this memorable evening in the privacy of a borrowed room, aglow with warm lamplight. At the very outset of the meal, the Lord revealed the yearning […]
Perhaps you’ve heard the familiar quotation, “The family that prays together, stays together.” While there is no biblical statement along this line, we have both scriptural direction and example as to the importance of prayer in the assembly. In the Acts of the Apostles, we read, “These all continued with one accord in prayer” (1:14). […]
Did anyone notice the carpenter, his weathered hands holding two birds, or the young wife beside him, gently carrying her child through the Temple Mount crowd? Only forty days had passed (Lev. 12:2, 4) since that momentous night when the Ancient of Days entered time and the Light of the knowledge of the glory of […]