Never, Never, Never. Never!
The door would slam against the sultry summer afternoon. My ball glove would be tossed deftly into the cubbyhole behind the door and I would take the stairs two at a time up to the kitchen. Then I would spit...
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The Traitor: Judas
Judas was a man with a native frailty which was his undoing because he did not bring it to the Saviour for subduing. His weakness lay very close to his strength. He was a man of keen business sense, which...
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Why Christ Had to Go
Why did Christ have to go? If witness to the world was the main task that lay ahead, how would it not be far better for Him to stay and conduct that witness Himself? How could it make sense for...
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Question Time at the Table
In John 14 four men ask four questions and the Lord gives four answers. It is interesting to note that a part of the Passover recorded in Exodus 12 was a question-and-answer period. When the children at the table asked:...
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Christ Reveals the Father
Though our Lord was pre-eminent in His prayer life, as in all else, we could form but a meager conception of the character of His prayers, had it not pleased God to leave on record this wonderful example of intercession,...
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Power for Witnessing
If the circle of love is surrounded by a circle of hate--a persecuting world that hates the disciples of Christ with a blind hatred--how will any testimony for Christ be maintained on the earth, when Christ Himself has gone? The Christian...
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A Place Prepared
"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their...
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Fruit Bearing
John 15 is the Lord's teaching on the fruitful life. A barren Christian is an anomaly. It was never intended. The Lord said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (Jn....
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The Unfinished Symphony
The Psalms, a hymnbook of the heart-born melodies of the redeemed, is in some parts 3,500 years old. Yet even this is late in the history of song. Before Moses and his multitude of former labor-camp slaves sang on the...
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