“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood.” (Acts 20:28). There are many lessons in this verse: 1. The Christian worker must not neglect his own soul. He must […]
The Lord Jesus, who had compassion for the people “because they were as sheep without a shepherd,” set the example. Elders are men who love and serve the Lord Jesus and His church. They probably have the most difficult and the most important work in the world. They certainly face some of the strongest spiritual […]
So that He Himself might come to have first place in everything” (Col. 1:18b). Such is the Father’s plan concerning His Son. In a few rich verses in Colossians 1, God sums up His design in creation and redemption, and His plan is eminently simple. He has purposed that—when all is said and done, when […]
The power of His Word should not come as any surprise, since, by that Word, He spoke the worlds into existence and continues to sustain them. When we think about how God created the world, we don’t generally think of Him in His three persons. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens […]
God’s preeminent revelation to man is in the person of His beloved Son. In human experience it is both joyful and humbling to see our personalities expressed in our children. They share our genes, character traits, and mannerisms. There are many of which it can be expressed “I know who your parents are” or “it’s […]
Most biographies are written after the subject has died. Or, in the case of an autobiography, it is written towards the end of the person’s life. However, the uniqueness of the Lord Jesus is such that His biography was written before He was born in Bethlehem of Judea. Of the countless references to Christ in […]
The body and the head belong together… the head controls and brings life to every part of the body. On his way to Damascus, Paul saw the glorified Lord Jesus and heard Him say, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting” (Acts 9:5). He might have wondered how that could be. He was pursuing Christians. […]
Few titles given by His enemies to the Lord Jesus were intended to contain so much gall and yet delivered so much sweetness as that of “Friend of Sinners.” To “receive” sinners as a judge or king might disdainfully do to hear small claims cases in their courts was one thing. But to “eat with […]
The late Don Welborn defined a spiritual gift as: “A divine endowment and enabling of the sovereign Spirit of God in the life of the believer, given in grace for the express purpose of furthering the spiritual growth and development of other fellow saints to the glory of God.” Each line of this definition condenses […]