According to the Book of Acts, Ephesus was highly favored among the churches founded by the apostle Paul. He gave two years’ residence at one stretch to that prosperous and strategic city. During that time there was an abundance of apostolic physical healing and exorcism of the demon possessed, insomuch that the goddess Diana, that […]
No good tradesman would willingly work very long with a blunt iron. “If the iron be blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct” (Eccl. 10:10). Good work demands a good instrument, and a good workman will see, if possible, that his […]
The world watched as a Marine helicopter lifted off, bound for Houston, Texas, while a moving van with Arkansas plates made its way cautiously through the gate into the presidential compound. It was moving day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and many observant evangelicals found it a moving experience indeed. They saw moving out what little […]
I was raised in a Christian home. The Bible was held in high esteem as God’s Word, historically true, inerrant in content, completely trustworthy for all matters of life and doctrine. The Book itself was held in high regard. If you carelessly dropped a school book on the ground you were reproved–but dropping your Bible […]
Christianity has, among many features to recommend it, several that call for constant consideration. Neglect of their force and application can easily produce shallowness of experience and weakness of witness. First, it can’t be too frequently and too emphatically stated that the Christian faith is historical in substance. It is not myth. It is not […]
A gentleman on holiday strolled across to the seat on which his wife was sitting. “What did that fellow say to you?” he asked. “He handed me this little book and inquired whether I had the supreme joy of knowing the Lord Jesus as my own personal Savior,” she replied. “Why didn’t you tell him […]
Some businesses can be carried on at home, but others cannot. A man may make shoes in his back shop, but he can’t catch fish there, and he can’t sow seed there, either. It is in the nature of the case that the fisherman and the sower should go abroad. Now our great Exemplar, the […]
“Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox” (Prov. 14:4). Martin Luther, (1483-1546), irreversibly changed Christendom when he faced off with an empire at the little town of Worms. Germany. This single event so stirs us that, five centuries later, parents honor his daring by […]
Certainties are remedies,” says the poet. How true are his words. The businessman, when he has the certain knowledge that his business is sound and healthy, finds in the knowledge a remedy which kills his anxiety. The mariner, who is guided by his chart and compass, knows where the dangerous places are, and therefore has […]