November 24
JESUS the KING: “Behold your King!” (Jn 19:14). When Pilate said these words, the mockery of the Lord Jesus’ claim to be king was almost complete. He wore a crown of long Judean thorns. A second-hand purple coat had been...
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November 23
CHRIST the GRACE DISPENSER (Heb 4:16): W.A. Cornaby tells of riding with a Chinese boatman on the river Han: The current was strong so, in spite of much poling, we made little headway. Then, having performed a simple operation, we...
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November 22
JESUS the I AM: “If you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins” (Jn 8:24). Fifteen hundred years before, Moses inquired as to the name he should use to identify to Pharoah the God he...
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November 21
CHRIST the SUPREME RULER: “Jesus Christ,…the ruler over the kings of the earth” (Rev 1:5). Buried in Aachen Cathedral in Germany the same day as his death, January 18, 814, Charlemagne, the father of Europe, has not really rested in...
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November 20
CHRIST the INVITER: “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Mt 11:28). William Temple writes: In the history of the world was ever an utterance made like this? Was ever...
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November 19
CHRIST the BAPTIZER: “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire” (Mt 3:11). William Arthur writes: Suppose we saw an army before a granite fort, and they told us they intended to batter it down. We well might...
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November 18
CHRIST the NOURISHER and CHERISHER: “No one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church” (Eph 5:29). A.C. Price, in his book Fifty Sermons (p 97), tells of a gentleman who...
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November 17
CHRIST the POTENTATE: “He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords” (1 Tim 6:15). Adam Clarke writes: “The word ‘Potentate’ is applied to secular governors;...
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November 16
JESUS the KINSMAN: “Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same” (Heb 2:14). George Stephenson, born in England in 1781, left school at an early age, but returned later to...
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