January 7
CHRIST the REDEEMER (Isa 59:20). My friend Gerald and I were visiting some believers living along the shore of the beautiful Gaspé Peninsula in Québec. En route, we stopped on a high promontory overlooking the famous Percé Rock. Perched beside...
ExploreJanuary 6
CHRIST our LIFE (Col 3:4). C.H. Mackintosh writes: God looks for reality. He is not satisfied with mere words of high profession. He says to us, “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in...
ExploreJanuary 5
CHRIST our RIGHTEOUSNESS (1 Cor 1:30). J.A. von Poseck tells about two eager believers, but one had a deep sorrow: his wife was not saved. He, of the two, went to heaven first. Before he died, he asked his friend,...
ExploreJanuary 4
CHRIST our MASTER (Mt 8:19). “Master” is the translation of six Greek words. He is our Kurios (Mk 13:35; Eph 6:9), often translated Lord or owner and linked with kuriakon, anglicised to our word “church,” meaning “belonging to the Lord.”...
ExploreJanuary 3
CHRIST the SEEKER (Lk 19:10). F.B. Hole tells of Peter, a steeple-watch in the cathedral in Utrecht. A believer, he spent every available moment reading the Word. One blustery night he was interrupted by a wealthy townsman, Dr. Blankenhagen, an avid...
ExploreJanuary 2
“JESUS CHRIST the SAME yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb 13:8). In his classic, The Root of the Righteous, A.W. Tozer writes that fellowship with the Lord is “delightful beyond all telling. He communes with His redeemed ones in an easy...
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