The “world” includes its inhabitants and the world system they have developed. This present world, because of sin, has become so unreal that it no longer even knows its Creator. “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not” (John 1:10). Nevertheless, “God sent not his…
Paganini, the great violinist, came out before his audience one day and made the discovery just as they ended their applause that there was something wrong with his violin. He looked at it a second and then saw that it was not his famous and valuable one.He felt paralyzed for a moment, then turned to…
An article in Homiletics Magazine discusses the benefits of fighting the malodorous maladies of bad breath and stinky feet (both caused by bacteria) with…well…bacteria. The article sites recent research which suggests that bacteria eating bacteria can actually be enlisted to consume their smelly relatives. The Homiletics editors likened it to the words of the famous…
The believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit by-and-by, but now. So far as justification is the result of faith, it is given to the soul in the moment when it closes with Christ, and accepts him as its all in all. Are they who stand before the throne…
There is a war against motherhood today. We’re in trouble—like a ship lost at sea on a dark night. We’ve lost our compass. The anchor is gone. The anchor of every society is the family and home. What anchors the home? Mothers. The head of the home is the father, but the heart of the…
“Yes, you belong to Jesus Christ, and your true beauty ought to be within. And, if it is within, it’s going to come out through your life. The Christian life is a wedding, not a funeral. Don’t wear the sorrowful clothes of a mourner, for Christ has clothed you with beauty—the gold of His righteousness.…
“Be content to live unknown for a little while, and to walk your weary way through the fields of poverty, or up the hills of affliction; for by-and-by you shall reign with Christ, for he has “made us kings and priests unto God, and we shall reign for ever and ever.” Oh!, wonderful thought for…
Go to church today…if Jesus could rise from the dead, you can rise from your bed.
“I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart” (Psalm 40.8). Ponder that statement. The will of God is not something we do; it’s something we enjoy and delight in.
“A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is his living biography, written out in the words and actions of his people. If we were what we profess to be, and what we should be, we should…
“That which friendship cannot do, and mere benevolence will not attempt, a father’s heart and hand must do for his sons. They are his offspring, he must bless them; they are his children, he must show himself strong in their defence. If an earthly father watches over his children with unceasing love and care, how…
“In those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they…