An address delivered at the Second World Conference on Christian Fundamentals, at the Moody Church Tabernacle, Chicago, Illinois.
There are two ideas that are struggling for the mastery in the thinking of the professing church at the present time. The conflict between them is becoming more acute every day and the real issue is becoming clearer as it progresses. All the life systems of thought are either unconsciously influenced or finally determined by the attitude men take towards these ideas. In the last analysis they both resolve themselves into what men think of God and His activities. They are popularly …
“And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.” —Exodus 32:14
This is a wonderful story, “God in the Hands of a Man.” The narrative which I have just read declares the theme, and Scripture proves the statement—God in the hands of Moses. Though he had committed murder before he left Egypt, and was impatient at times; for all that, Moses was God’s chosen man, and after forty years on the backside of the desert he came forth as God’s trained man.
I have no doubt but what that “brush-college” experience was necessary. He …
No one can be long in a Christian organization without being brought face to face with the necessity that, in a community of God’s servants, the personal zeal and faith of its members must be accompanied by the ability to live together in harmony. The key to fellowship is seen to be the next most important acquirement to holy living and love for souls. It must be admitted that among Christian communities of every type, holding every varied emphasis of scriptural truth, zeal and knowledge far, far outrun the graces of dwelling together in unity, forbearing one another in love, …
God has put it into my heart to speak about a very sad incident in the life of King David. I mean the time when the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. God permitted Satan to lead David into sin. It is a very solemn way in which God executes judgment. When God’s people do not live up to the full measure of their light and opportunity, they are in danger of getting into darkness. The Lord Jesus said, “Take heed that the light that is in you be not darkness, because if that light become darkness how …
“For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” —Psalm 138:2
Christians who believe in an inerrant and infallible Bible have sometimes been charged with being worshipers of a book, Bible idolators. Someone has said that as a heathen worships an idol, so we worship the Book. Dr. Marion Burton, president of Michigan University, in his book on our intellectual attitude in an age of criticism, makes this charge that “Protestantism has made a fetich of the Bible.”
Now, if God has magnified His Word above all His name, as He has, why should not we honor it and …
I don’t care what you think about it, the Word of God plainly sets forth the possession of devils and the influence of the devil. If you are reckoning on life without the devil, you do not know yet what life is.
There are men now talking about flying across the sea. They are not leaving out the wind in their reckoning. They take the wind into consideration. They take storms into consideration and they are waiting until the weather clears up. They have sense enough to get a barometer because they know the effects of clouds and fogs and …
“Why do we even need doctrinal statements? Why don’t we just believe what the Bible teaches?” The person who asked me this question was serious: Just do away with “theology” and teach what the Bible teaches!
A wonderful-sounding comment, for sure, but very uninformed and very dangerous. True, we all have the same Bible and claim to worship the same God. But to harmonize the Bible’s teachings about the person of Jesus, the role of the Holy Spirit, and the requirements for personal salvation—these, along with a host of other doctrines, lie at the …
Eighty-nine years ago, on February 5, Dwight Lyman Moody was born at Northfield, Massachusetts. Although he has been “with the Lord” since 1899, Mr. Moody is still living and ministering through the institutions which he founded.
Dr. Stuart Holden, the well-known preacher of England, in a recent address stated that the influence of D.L. Moody in England is greater today than when the evangelist was there in bodily presence. The Christian life of England owes more to Mr. Moody than to any other man. Dr. Holden says, “There are few Christian enterprises in our country which do not directly owe …
Some months ago a scientist friend, employed by a company attempting to harness the power of the atom for peaceful purposes, was moved out of the laboratory to a position of executive responsibility. His job now is to help take care of his temperamental scientist colleagues who are unable to get along together. These men engaged in the job of harnessing limitless power seem to be powerless inside themselves. They are petty, temperamental, quarrelsome, jealous and selfish. So my friend’s assignment is to help these men get along together.
As we discussed this situation, we commented on the irony of …
We come now to another group of psalms that are all intimately linked together and this time, instead of an octave, we have a septenary series. In the oldest Hebrew text, there would be only six, for originally Psalms 9 and 10 were one. We do not know just when they were divided into two, but we know them as 9 and 10 instead of simply as 9. Then, if we add to them 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, we have the series of seven.
In those first two psalms, 9 and 10, we have the people of God …
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