Seven Indispensible Prayers
All who have studied the Psalms must have noticed many prayers there which God's children would do well to make their own for personal use. From these I select seven as being vitally important for every believer. Psalm 17:5--"Hold up my...
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Thou Art With Me
The title is the central verse and central thought of beautiful Psalm 23. It stands out in relation to six views of the Christian life which are given in the psalm: MY NEED AS A SINNER "I shall not want." His work...
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Just how Good is the Good Book?
God's Word is indestructible. "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away" (Mt. 24:35). Every conceivable effort has been made to destroy the Bible. Copies have been burned in huge bonfires; edicts have been issued...
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Grave New World?
It's a moot point that the 21st century begins on January 1, 2001, not 2000. In fact, due to the mixup in changing to the Gregorian calendar from the Julian in 1582, we've actually been in the new millennium for...
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Standing on Their Shoulders
To acknowledge indebtedness to our Christian forebears does not mean that we are engaging in ancestral worship. We should not erect shrines to the dead, but in many ways we are indebted to them and enriched by their legacy. Still,...
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Equal Yet Different
From India came the old stories about the juggernaut, the massive cart that carried weighty idols, and as it crunched the cobblestone roads, would occasionally crush a stumbling pedestrian. Here in the West we have seen something like the old...
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Great Expectations
The coming millennium is a strange mix of the Beginning and the End. It proffers scientific breakthroughs, communication at lightning speed, perhaps greater length of life--mixed blessings at best. We sympathize with T. S. Eliot: "Man is advancing progressively backwards."...
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Long Range Weather Predictions
Someone has maliciously said that it would be about as worthwhile if the weatherman theorized the stock market trends, and the financial guru tried predicting the weather. Of course we will not attempt either. What then? Many Bible students find it...
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I Don’t Care for Daisies, Either
Last month we considered Calvinism's view of salvation, forming the acrostic T-U-L-I-P. But someone has observed that Arminians have a flower, too--the daisy: "He loves me; He loves me not...." This refers to the question in the fifth Arminian point...
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