May 15
CHRIST the CRUCIFIED ONE: “We preach Christ crucified” (1 Cor 1:23). “I am crucified with Christ” (Gal 2:20). Andrew Murray writes: The cross of Christ is His greatest glory. Because He humbled Himself to the death of the cross, therefore...
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May 14
CHRIST the LIFE PRINCIPLE: “Reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 6:11). Eternal life was the life which Christ exhibited on the human plane, and it is the same...
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May 13
CHRIST the SIN-OFFERING: “…You make His soul an offering for sin” (Isa 53:10). Years ago, I was leading a tour to Israel and we had arranged to spend a day working with some archeologists excavating a Roman villa at Gilo....
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May 12
CHRIST our INSTRUCTOR: “You call Me Teacher and Lord,” He said as He resumed His place among them at the table; “and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher…” (Jn 13:13-14). We notice...
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May 11
CHRIST the HEART’S OCCUPANT: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith” (Eph 3:17). John Tauler, preaching priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Strasbourg, Germany, was converted under the ministry of Nicolas of Basel in 1340. He was...
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May 10
CHRIST the INTROSPECTOR: “Jesus…knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man” (Jn 2:24-25). Says C.H. Spurgeon, “A healthy man hardly knows whether he has a stomach or a...
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May 9
CHRIST the FINISHER: “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb 12:2). The Lord Jesus will finish in us what He began (Php 1:6). On September 4, 1869, at age 37, Hudson Taylor found a letter waiting...
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