Ministering to the Poor
The poor man is the man without a margin. His income, even when it does come in--and he has no assurance that it will not fail--barely covers the irreducible minimum of the subsistence expenditure of his family. Life for him...
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Accepted or Acceptable?
"He hath made us accepted in the beloved" (Eph. 1:6) "Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be [acceptable to] Him" (2 Cor. 5:9) Though rendered by the same word in our AV, these words "accepted" and "acceptable" are...
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The Life Within
The Lord Jesus tells us in John 12, "Except the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit." Life is in the grain of wheat, but there is a...
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The OTHER John 3:16
What preacher does not delight to quote John 3:16? To what Christian are not its wonderful words familiar? Is it not the best known gospel text? Who can estimate the number that have been led to the Saviour by its...
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Lofty, Lowly, Lovely
Let us bow in adoration as we meditate on the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, and whose Name is holy, dwelling in the high and holy place, whose "glory is set above the heavens" (Ps. 8:1), even our...
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The Drawing Power of the Cross
The prince of this world held men in his thrall, but Jesus by His death judged the devil. "Lifted up," He says, "I will draw all men to another prince. I will draw all men unto Me." Oh, Satan is...
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Catapult to the Higher Life
From that spot in the Lake District of central England, the lofty view looking down Derwentwater has made overcomers out of otherwise common men. For a victorious location, the town of Keswick was chosen for annual conventions that began in...
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Keep On Keeping On
"And the women also, which came with Him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how His body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment" (Lk....
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The Day the Chains Fell Off
The time was December of 1983. The place was the office of Jean Gibson at Fairhaven Bible Chapel in San Leandro, California. My wife Nancy and I were attending the Discipleship Intern Training Program that Jean and William MacDonald had...
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