Why is the last course the hardest? It seems uphill the rest of the way. ~ So that you will know that nothing has been of your own strength. It has been only by the will of the Father, the promise and calling of the Son, and the power of the Holy Spirit...
“Surely oppression drives the wise into madness,” Ecclesiastes 7:7 Oppression is not an ordinary subject of conversation, nor one that we spend much time thinking about; but it has become a primary thought for me, which has grown to greater proportions of my thinking...
He does not see how wonderful we are He does not know how intelligent we are. He does not listen to our opinions. He does not consider our good deeds. He does not understand our boasting. He is not impressed with our accomplishments. He is doing His own...
It has been said that one picture is worth a thousand words. While we sometimes need images to help us see a hidden truth there is no image that will portray the word “faith.” Many people look at the cross, but walk away unmoved and unchanged from their thinking. The...
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In this Year of Humility we have been learning from Andrew Murray’s Humility (PDF) the meaning, the means, and the working of humility in the Christian life. In this tenth chapter we come to the aim of humility, the end goal, and that is, death. Let us remember where...
“By the grace of God I am what I am.” 1 Corinthians 15:10 "Be this my motto, both as to my natural and spiritual life: how else could I have existed at all. Had not foreknowledge planned, and wisdom contrived, and power put every atom together, and fixed my scene of...
Through time and observations we come to conclusions about this life and what comes after. Such has been my experience; and especially of the Lord’s Day. If I were to write the book it would be titled The Lord’s Day ~ It’s Purpose, Program and Practice. Each...
In chapter eight of Romans we see the proof of the power of the gospel to deliver us from the condemnation of the old law, which was written on stone, and to bring in the new law which is written on the mind and in the heart by the Holy Spirit. We are no longer...