Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,and I will give you rest. (Matt 11:28) To whom does the invitation of this cross come? It comes to failures, the people who know they have gone wrong, the people who are filled with a sense of shame, the people who are weary and…
There is nothing that will ever humble a man or a nation but the cross of Christ. The cross tells us the simple, plain truth about ourselves.Think of it like this. Why did the Son of God ever come into this world? Why did He leave the courts of glory? Why was He born as…
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…
There is nothing on earth more beautiful to see than suffering transmuted into love. To say that the bitter cup can be drunk heroically is no more than every brave man or woman knows already, but to say that one soul’s hurt and suffering can distill out life and strength and healing for others—that is…
Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer. But let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our…
In sending darkness over the whole earth for three hours, God presents us with an object lesson concerning His attitude on the day Jesus died. The darkness was God’s sign of judgment against mankind for the gross sin of rejecting and murdering His beloved Son. It is also a sign of God’s reaction to sin…