Ex-President Bush declared the Cold War to be over, that we were entering a new age of peace and co-operation in the world. President Clinton is working hard at dismantling our military weapons. The “Star Wars” initiative, with its billions of dollars invested, is dropped as unnecessary. Peace just around the corner is the clarion […]
“And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him” (Gen. 5:24). We hear repeatedly of the pathway of obedience as the way of blessing and progress; but what is that “path of the just . . . that shineth more and more unto the perfect day”? It is walking with God. […]
“And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my […]
The intimacy which the Lord has sought with man is evidenced in a very blessed way through Scripture. It may have had different expressions, but still it was intimacy. The glory in the cloud, the Lord in the burning bush, the armed Captain by Jericho, and the glory filling the temple–all tell this nearness of […]
The Lord, interpreting the Father, enforces on His disciples here the lesson that in entering into relation with Himself, as the “True Vine,” they come within the sphere of the Father’s activities as Husbandmen, for better or worse, as they abide, or fail to abide in Him. “As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, […]
David Rea (1845-1916) was born near Lurgan, in Northern Ireland. Married in 1868, he was brought to Christ the following year. His notorious drinking had been a colossal embarrassment to his faithful wife and a scandal to his relatives and neighbors, but the night after conversion he immediately testified to the grace of God. After […]
A personal knowledge of God will change character, transforming the life following the new birth. It is gradual, not sudden, in its change, as the Spirit of God introduces new motives and objects into the life for God’s glory (2 Cor. 3:18). “Christianity in its revelation of a personal God and Saviour, of a future […]
I was born in Leeds, a large city in the north of England. My parents were Roman Catholic and brought me up within the confines of the Catholic Church. In my teenage years, I became convinced of my own hypocrisy in dressing up in my Sunday best and going through the weekly ritual for less […]
In John’s Gospel, Christ is continually presented as the substance of all the previous shadows. The light, the lamb, the temple, the fountain, the manna, the shepherd–each is reviewed and replaced by His own glorious Person. With what wondering awe must the eleven, who a few hours before looked on the withered fig tree, and […]