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September 21, 2026 — Blessed By Fearing The Lord
We don’t naturally think that fear and delight would be in the same sentence (Ps 112:1). But they’re twins! Many of the psalms we have studied recently begin as Psalm 112 does: “Praise the Lord!” or “Hallelujah!” (v 1). But as noted, the psalmists not only tell us that we should praise the Lord, but how and why and…
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September 21
CHRIST the TIME REDEEMER: “The hour has come” (Jn 12:23). No one did as much in life as the Lord Jesus. Born in a stable, He opened heaven’s palaces to us. Rejected by His own people, He provided salvation sufficient for every sinner. Living in obscurity, He realigned the whole universe. Ted Engstrom crammed a…
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September 21 Petition Mission
“For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall” (Isa 25:4). What is the world’s greatest wall? Some years ago, I stood on…
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September 21
Is the Bible to be taken literally? Yes. And no. Like any great piece of literature, there are some literal, some figurative and metaphorical sections. If something is metaphorical, it does not mean it isn’t true; it is true but is being described in a different way. For example, we read about “chains of darkness”…
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September 20
CHRIST the CREDIT HOLDER: “We are debtors” (Rom 8:12). In Luke 7, the Lord told a story that declares every sinner in debt to God. Wonderfully, our debt can be paid by the Savior’s death. But Paul explains that there are certain debts we still owe, and are called upon to pay up ourselves, through…
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September 20 Petition Mission
“Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, ‘Jacob, Jacob!’ And he said, ‘Here I am’” (Gen 46:2). He knows you well, believer. But on only seven occasions do we have it recorded that the Lord called one of His people twice in a row: “Abraham, Abraham!” (Gen 22:11). “Jacob,…