Six simple suggestions Did you love hearing stories from the Old Testament as a child? Of course you did. Stories about Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, and King David enthralled us as children. So do you love studying the Old Testament today? I hope so, but I’m also realistic. Somewhere along the line, many of […]
What’s in a Name? Quite a bit, actually … There are many names for God; no one name could express all that He is. The study of them is not only most illuminating but should lead us into intimate fellowship with Him. By it we enter into the heritage of all His people: the unfolding […]
The life of meaning The next time Christ’s feet touch the earth, the Mount of Olives will split from east to west (Zech. 14:4). Nevertheless, it was His first coming that was truly earth-shaking, for it divided not a mountain, but time, eternity, heaven and hell, the saved and the lost. No man, no celebrity, […]
A good meal has several courses. In his 1999 book How the News Makes us Dumb1, historian C. John Sommerville observes that the greatest problem with today’s news coverage is not so much that it is biased (which it is), as that it is daily. As a consequence, news is reduced to the lowest common […]
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Wanting for nothing Before the Lord Jesus, we were all lost in our trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:1 refers to this as being dead. Our sin had separated us from God, and, in that state, we were unable to commune with Him. This spiritual darkness has defined every human being since Adam and still […]
The schoolmaster gracefully retires. What did our Lord mean in Matthew 5:17-20 when He said He had not come to destroy the Law but to fulfill it? The reader will do well to realize that this is no simple question. In two sentences (v.17), the Saviour summarizes the relationship between the whole of the […]
He made Himself of no reputation. Six times in Exodus 7-10 the Lord says, “let My people go that they may serve Me.” He wanted His people out of Egypt (the world) so that they would be free to serve their God. It is still the desire of our loving, heavenly Father that we […]
His kindness leads us to repentance. “For the Son of Man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them” (Lk. 9:56). In the paragraph where the Lord speaks these words, we are told that the time had come for Him to be “received up” to glory. But He had one more stop […]
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Caring, protective leaders is one of the greatest needs today. As elders, we are simply under-shepherds of the Chief Shepherd. There is no greater example of shepherding than that which the Lord provides in His capacity as “the good shepherd [that] lays down His life for the sheep.” In John 10, the Lord describes His […]