For thirty years I’d looked at a vast empty quarter on maps of the area to the northwest of Nyankunde, Zaire wondering if it was really uninhabited. The steamy rain forest remains as wild and dark as it ever has, unbroken by the tracks that pass for roads in Zaire, in an area the size […]
The Epistle to the Hebrews, perhaps beyond all others, is designed to strengthen the faith, confidence, and assurance of God’s people. This is everywhere apparent: the great quality that is extolled in chapter 11 is not zeal or godliness or love, but faith; the Israelites, we are told, failed to enter into Canaan because of […]
The need only glance at the book of Acts to find the miraculous at every preaching point. Scoffers were forced to confess, “This is the finger of God.” Unlikely conversions, riots and assassination plots awaited the apostles at each new port. In the centuries since, how often we have noticed that when the gospel first […]
There is a distinction to be drawn between pleasing God and glorifying Him. “We ought to walk and please God” (1 Thess. 4:1), and we should “Do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31), for thereto have we been chosen in Christ that we should be “to the praise of His glory” (Eph. […]
“In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands” (2 Cor. 11:32-33). How often great issues in the out-working of the divine plan have seemingly […]
It had been snowing for some time in London, Ontario. Nature’s white blanket had been pulled across the landscape once more and Eric Cameron thought it would be a good day to stay inside. It had not been long since doctors had diagnosed him as a victim of ALS — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Most folk […]
The night before, our little car had whined in protest as we wound our way up the shoulder of Ben Nevis along a narrow, rutted lane. The sign out at the main road had offered bed and breakfast at a reasonable rate and we were ready for a night’s rest. Now we luxuriated in the […]
The apocryphal story is told of a young lady who was lent a book by a close friend. She tried very hard to read it through, understand and enjoy it, but failed completely. Then one day she met a young man. They became acquainted, fell in love, and were soon engaged to be married. It […]
We may enjoy the perpetual recognition of the presence of Christ. “The world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me (John 14:19). Nothing makes men so humble and yet so strong as the vision of Christ. It induces humility. When Isaiah beheld His glory more resplendent than the sheen of the sapphire throne, he […]