CHRIST our MASTER (Mt 8:19). “Master” is the translation of six Greek words. He is our Kurios (Mk 13:35; Eph 6:9), often translated Lord or owner and linked with kuriakon, anglicised to our word “church,” meaning “belonging to the Lord.” Despotes (2 Tim 2:21) also indicates owner, but emphasizes one who has “absolute ownership and […]
CHRIST the SEEKER (Lk 19:10). F.B. Hole tells of Peter, a steeple-watch in the cathedral in Utrecht. A believer, he spent every available moment reading the Word. One blustery night he was interrupted by a wealthy townsman, Dr. Blankenhagen, an avid astronomer. He wanted to set up a telescope in the tower to observe a rare […]
“JESUS CHRIST the SAME yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb 13:8). In his classic, The Root of the Righteous, A.W. Tozer writes that fellowship with the Lord is “delightful beyond all telling. He communes with His redeemed ones in an easy and uninhibited fellowship that is restful and healing to the soul. He is not sensitive […]
CHRIST the FIRST (Rev 1:17). On May 9, 1841, George Müller penned a pamphlet titled “First.” He writes: It has pleased the Lord to teach me a truth, the benefit of which I have not lost for more than 14 years…that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was […]
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Salvation is one of the biggest words in the Bible. We might describe it as “all that God has for us in Christ.” Although often used in a specific way, generally it includes justification, sanctification, and glorification. It involves the redemption that buys us out of sin’s slavemarket and God being propitiated. It embraces reconciliation […]
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I just discovered another reason for not only taking seriously those Scripture passages about caring for the poor, visiting widows, feeding the hungry, and preaching the gospel to those who have never heard, but for also affirming those less-appreciated verses about women’s roles and the head covering as the revealed Word of God. Glennon Doyle […]