Hebrews: Setting the Stage
The Hebrew epistle is a journey into heaven to view the surpassing glories of the Son of God. The literary style of the book is lucid, logical, smooth, stately, and sublime. The customary introduction and salutation are absent. Like the...
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Chapter 13: Journey’s End
In the first seven chapters of this letter the person of the Son of God displaces all else--the Man in the glory of God. In the next three chapters we are introduced to the place where He serves as our...
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The Superiority of Faith
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds (lit. ages) were framed by the word of God,...
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Help for the Helpless
One of the most encouraging promises in the book of Hebrews is found in the little statement, "find grace to help in time of need" (4:16). The Lord Jesus had taught His disciples in John 15:5 that "without Me ye...
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The Nexte Thynge
I have discovered in life that it isn't the work you do that tires you; it is the work you ought to do but leave undone. In an old poetry book which I value there is an anonymous poem called...
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The Crying Need Today
On looking around at the Lord's work, and the vast amount of machinery of one kind and another in operation, it must strike even the most careless observer that the results are terribly small in proportion to the means used. It...
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Aunt Mabel
We watched the women prisoners file slowly from their cells into the common area. Their plain, dull uniforms seemed to match their expressionless faces. The team of four women from our assembly stood at the front of the room trying...
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Funerals: A Time to Minister
It was a call of desperation. Though the brother on the line was an elder, this was the first time he had been called on to conduct a funeral. Since normally there are only two or three days given to...
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Certainties For Us All
It is of the utmost importance that the heart be established in the certainty of every "Thus saith the Lord." These are days of research and criticism, when things are not taken for granted because taught by one's forefathers. Everything...
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