We ought to think of Christ because of the office He fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God, through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the Mediator between God and man, through whom alone we can be reconciled to God, pardoned, justified, and saved. […]
The sights and sounds of heaven. “I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee; wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:5-6). “They answered and said unto him: Thou wast altogether born in sin and dost thou teach us? And they cast […]
“…and His name shall be called Wonderful….” (Isa. 9:6) No mind can fathom, no heart can grasp, no pen describe, how wonderful the Saviour is. He is wonderful if we think of Him as the Only Begotten of the Father. He is the image of the invisible God, the brightness of His glory and the […]
Searching words from the weeping prophet. In the first of Jehovah’s messages through Jeremiah, the tender-hearted prophet, and recorded in Jeremiah 2, there are a number of touching questions: “What is wrong in Me?” (v. 5); “Why not inquire of Me?” (v. 6); “The priests ignore Me, why?” (v. 8); “Is there any nation so […]
“…Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death” (Phil. 1:20). The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years…” (Ps. 90:10, NKJV). A hymn says, “Life at best is very brief.” Compared to eternity, our life is just a little blip […]
A veteran soul winner and disciple-maker calls for some cooperation in the work. In Mark 2, we see four men bearing a fifth to the Lord for help. Notice how they dealt with the obstacles they encountered on the way. Nothing deterred their resolute determination to accomplish their task, namely, to bring a needy soul […]
As 1950 drew to a close, I cannot help but think that my thoroughly Scottish father anticipated with some relish the timely arrival of a new little tax deduction, a deduction to be applied for the whole of the previous year! But alas it was not to be. Although my dear mother spent the waning […]