Dan was a mountain of a man. He could drink anyone else under the table on the university campus where he attended. He was not afraid to take anybody on. He usually won–until he decided to challenge the group of Christians who had an outreach in one of the dorms each Tuesday night. The Christians […]
“Memory,” said Cicero, “is the treasury and guardian of all things.” The little girl however, had a different idea when she defined memory as “the thing that I forget with.” The human mind is a masterpiece of God’s workmanship (Ps. 139:14). We fail to appreciate what a great trust God has given each one of […]
A few years ago, a book named “Roots” took the country by storm. It was about an Afro-American who traced his roots back to Africa. This exploration gave him a sense of continuity with history and changed the way he lived. In much the same way, each of us can trace our heritage back a […]
Since the world began, there never has been such a storyteller as Jesus of Nazareth. His parables are priceless. They are the most unique word pictures ever presented to the wondering eyes of the children of men. A parable is sometimes defined as “an earthly story with a heavenly meaning.” However you define them, they […]
More and more I am made to feel that Christ does not have His proper place among the children of God. He is not the object. It is either a doctrine, a dogma, a party, my experience–something beside Christ. We seem possessed with much the same spirit that actuated Peter on the mount when he […]
When the vitality of the Word of God is missing from the pulpits, the vacuum has always been filled, sometimes by eloquence, by joke-telling, by man’s philosophies, or by anecdotes. Almost anything has been pulled in to fill the void, but the godly have shunned such froth. In many ways, the setting that Savonarola spoke […]
We understand a miracle to feed 5,000 or to raise the dead, certainly, but for a lost axe? The young man knew its importance. With the axe head gone, his means of serving the Lord and His people and being able to do the things expected of him were gone as well. Now others would […]
The Big Stony River is just to the left. We are walking upstream on a well-worn game trail. Behind us, momentarily hidden in clouds, rises the massive bulk of Mount McKinley–North America’s highest peak. Miles ahead, at the moment unseen in the morning mist, in the mountains near the headwaters of the Big Stony, is […]
When life goes on well, self-sufficient complacency toward the Lord is apt to creep in. There is failure to feel the need for consistency in prayer. But when a critical issue looms, impossible to solve humanly, it results in a hurry-up call to get serious in prayer. There must be a deeper understanding of what […]