April 27
CHRIST the PREPARER of our PLACE: George Henderson points out that the Christian is bound to heaven by eight gold links. Our Father is there: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name” (Mt 6:9). Our Savior is there: “Christ...
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April 26
CHRIST the TESTATOR of the NEW COVENANT: “This is the covenant that I will make with them…Their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more” (Heb 10:16-17). Sheila O’Gahagan, a factory girl, broken in health, was advised to spend...
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April 25
CHRIST the SON of GOD: “And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God” (Jn 1:34). While the title “Son of God” is the official way in which the Lord Jesus is designated as the true...
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April 24
CHRIST the only DOOR: “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved” (Jn 10:9). Charles Berry, an English Congregationalist preacher, for some time served in the milltown of Bolton, Lancashire. One evening he was accosted...
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April 23
JESUS the JUST ONE: Three times in Acts our Lord is called “the Just One.” In Acts 3:14, Peter drives home the point to the assembled Jews, “You denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer...
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April 22
CHRIST the POWER of GOD: “…Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:24). A British ship landed John G. Paton and his wife Mary on Tanna Island in the southern New Hebrides (now called Vanuatu)...
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April 21
CHRIST our VERY PRESENT HELP: “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy” (Jude 24). Thomas Guthrie writes: “If the world is growing...
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