A spongy mass. We stop, crouch down, and really look at it for the first time. It is a dense tangle of vines, leaves, berries, tiny flowers, moss, and lichen. Delightful variety. Fellow saint, have you stopped lately for a thoughtful look at the walk by which your Lord has led you moment by moment? […]
I was baptized as an infant, confirmed when in first grade, and attended church services every school day of every year until high school. Yet a true relationship with God didn’t exist. I knew about Him at a very early age. However, this is far different from knowing Him personally by faith in His Son. […]
It is not difficult to exaggerate human things. They are, by nature, so small that one can almost unsuspectingly cross the line. It’s so easy that we have invented a score of words to describe the phenomenon. The poet calls it hyperbole. The artist speaks of coloring the truth. The lawyer names it misrepresentation; the […]
We Christians believe that the One who died for us on Golgotha is truly God as well as truly Man. This doctrine is one of the foundation truths of Christianity. When Pliny wrote to the Emperor Trajan in the second century, he reported that the Christians at their meetings “sang a hymn to Christ as […]
The hour is early, but not too early for the wicked Caiaphas to be abroad. He slept little, if any, the previous night, and now has dawned the day for which he has lived for full three years. Before the sun is down–his eyes glow with satanic fury as he anticipates–he hopes to gloat over […]
The central theme of the Colossian epistle is found in chapter 3:11: “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” The apostle seems to sweep aside everyone to magnify Christ. The world’s greatest language–Greek; the onlyDivine religion that ever was–Jew; religious […]
Let us consider why all men ought to think of Christ; common thoughts of many about Christ; and thoughts true Christians have about Him. Why All Men Ought to Think of Christ All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of […]
Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853), “the father of faith missions,” deeply influenced the founders of the China Inland Mission, the North Africa Mission, and particularly his own brother-in-law, George Muller. Anthony was the only son in a family of six. His mother was gentle and talented. His father was an aggressive businessman, who lost much of […]
“Christmas in July,” a local bar promoted, was an occasion not to celebrate the birth of the Saviour of the world but rather as an excuse to have its patrons drink more alcohol. I was part of the revelry that night, even joining others in the irreverent singing of Christmas hymns. But the “peace on […]