Hope, with uplifted foot set free from earth, Pants for the place of her ethereal birth; On steady wings sails through the immense abyss, Plucks amaranthine joys from bowers of bliss, And crowning the soul, while yet a mourner here, With wreath like those triumphant spirits wear. —Cowper In “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” the immortal dreamer […]
It began as a visit, a brief stop on the journey, and became the labor of his life. James Clapham, a New Zealand school teacher, stopped in what was then called Palestine enroute to Britain. But, like the apostle Paul at Athens, the desperate spiritual need gripped his soul and would not let him go. […]
Hello, this is Dr. B. calling. I have the results of your blood tests, and I would like to have some more tests done.” “OK. When should I come to your office?” “I would want to have these done in the hospital, Mr. Cameron.” “Will this not take some time to have the arrangements made, […]
“And that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue . . . that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them” (Numbers 15:38-39). People have always made and used outward aids to their memory–things to enable them to remember. Sir Walter Scott […]
We have, in the book of Exodus, the account of that visit which Moses paid to Jehovah Himself in the excellent glory above Mount Sinai–a visit lasting forty days and forty nights, during which time Moses received from God very explicit instructions concerning a tabernacle which he was to make for the dwelling-place of Jehovah […]
I was visiting a friend near Avignon in the south of France. He and his wife labor (the word may not be strong enough) among the expatriate Arabs from the former French colonies of North Africa. It is not an easy work. The parched moral landscape of France is difficult enough, but work among the […]
The Divine intention is that we shall one day be like our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:29). It is equally true, however, that God is looking for moral conformity to Him now. We may no longer be “under law,” nevertheless, the righteous requirements of the law are still to be displayed in our lives. Sin […]
It is important to see that the coming of the Lord Jesus into this world introduced an entirely new era in the ways of God with men, and that this new era is marked by the presence of the Holy Spirit in a way that was never known before. In Old Testament days, the Spirit […]
God has chosen in love and grace to reveal Himself to His creature, man. We discover He is One God, yet manifest in three divine persons, being a Father, a Son and a Holy Spirit. We speak most reverently of the First, the Second and the Third Persons of the Godhead. This is not by […]