“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver,” the wise preacher once said. We use words to express ideas or to paint pictures in a mind, or to persuade someone to “see it our way.” Winston Churchill stirred a nation to patriotism; Hitler stirred his people to hatred; Harriet Beecher […]
The author of the Scriptures, like the Creator, reveals His perfection in all that He does. We see it in the use of certain words and phrases in Psalm 119. In this chapter there are 176 verses, divided into 22 sections with the first letter of each line in the section beginning with a letter […]
The Word of God is the food of the soul. There can be no normal growth or progress apart from it (1 Peter 2:2; Heb. 5:11-12). It must be allowed to enter into the fiber of the Christian’s life, as food enters the structure of the body. It is the channel by which God communicates […]
The following material is not intended to be an exhaustive study of our subject. It is, however, the writer’s purpose to emphasize some of the structure of the Scriptures to encourage its faithful and fruitful study. Our goal should be, not only to intensify our study of the Bible, but that this faithful study will […]
In Hebrews 1:1-2, we read one of the many claims the Bible makes to being the revealed Word of God. The book is full of “Thus saith the Lord” and, “Verily, I say unto you.” There are a great many reasons for believing these claims of divine origin. The following have been sufficient to satisfy […]
To the Christian, Christ is all in all. His name rises above every name. His life is the model life. His worth overshadows the world’s wealth. His light dispels darkness, and is above the brightness of the sun. The Christian life is the transcendent life. Even death, for the Christian, is an entrance into a […]
One of the clearest warnings given in the New Testament concerns the proliferation of false prophets and teachers who will lead many astray. Disguising themselves as trusted Christian brethren — wolves in sheep’s clothing — these deceivers secretly introduce destructive heresies into assemblies of believers. Unnoticed, they skillfully attack, ravage, and eventually scatter the sheep […]
What kind of man would write an “Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words”? Would he spend his existence cloistered away in an ivory tower, surrounded by heaps of books, and seldom, if ever, descend to the streets below? Perhaps we imagine that there is a hidden community of such people, and they are the ones […]
More than one hundred and fifty years ago, a group of men, committed to following the truth no matter the cost, met to study the Word of God. Out of these simple Bible readings, there grew a movement which exerted great influence over their generation, and their impact continues to be felt today. They were […]