The following is a synopsis of an address delivered last month at the commencement exercises of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago by the class speaker representing the graduates of the Pastors’ Course. We are glad to give space to this clear, forceful treatise not only because it is sane and scriptural and the testimony of the author who is one of our most valued active members, but because it is also the testimony of The Moody Church.
Some of us are about to enter upon what will be our life work. Whether we go to the people of a …
Sermon delivered by Rev. R.H. Glover, M.D. at The Moody Church, August 1, 1926.
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.” —2 Corinthians 2:14
We are indebted for this beautiful text, as we are for many another in God’s Word, to the circumstances of severe trial out of which it came. These circumstances were, briefly stated, as follows: From Ephesus, Paul had written and sent his first epistle to the Corinthians and later had dispatched Titus in order to learn the …
Politics: The Dangers That Lie Ahead—The Real Battle is Just Beginning
With a new administration in charge in Washington, there is the possibility that the church of Jesus Christ might relax its focus on the battles ahead; in other words, many may think the battle for our freedoms is over because the newly-elected president of the United States is protecting the freedoms of speech and religion. We can rejoice that President Trump has pardoned pro-life demonstrators who were convicted by the previous administration, that pastors are being invited to the White House to discuss religious freedom, and that steps have …
“Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.” So writes Buce Shelly in the opening line of his book, Church History in Plain Language.
The humiliation of God!
One indication that we do not understand the cross today is that it’s difficult to find anyone who says anything against it. Crosses are worn as pendants by athletes and rock stars; it has become a symbol of general goodwill and acceptance. The cross is seen as simply an ancient symbol that can be easily combined with an undefined spirituality or, for …
[Clarence] Darrow tried to floor [William Jennings] Bryan in the Dayton Court [during the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes trial of 1925] with some difficult questions about the Bible.
Was the world made in six days? Did a whale swallow Jonah? Where did Cain get his wife? Did the sun stand still for Joshua? How old is man?
And many other questions about incidents that have often puzzled Scripture students.
Bryan gave brief replies to the lawyer’s questions.
Now, Dr. R.A. Torrey, famous Bible scholar, and former New Englander, explains in detail why Fundamentalists like Bryan readily believe …
You will find the text in the epistle tot he Hebrews. Hebrews 12:6, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.”
In connection with this passage, I would like to read some verses in the context. “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much …
Five times in the New Testament our Lord Jesus Christ is called the only begotten and five times He is called the first-born or the first-begotten. Five times our Lord is called the only begotten—that is what He is in His essential deity. Five times He is called first begotten—that is what He became as a man. All I shall attempt to do is to turn you from one Scripture to another, linking these together with a few comments to bring out the true deity and the true humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You will know if you are at all familiar with your Bible that in the conquest of Canaan, Joshua had to meet and defeat thirty-one different kings. These were rulers over petty kingdoms. The Canaan experience of the children of Israel represents the deepest and best spiritual experience, typically speaking. We may consider these thirty-one kings as representing the different foes which we must meet and triumph over if we are to apprehend that for which we have been apprehended. God has called you and me not simply that He might take us to heaven, but that a certain purpose …
“And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” —1 Corinthians 13:13, RV
I used to wonder how a chapter could be ended up in such a way as this. I remember that as a boy, I used to read it, and it struck me as an awfully weak climax. After Paul had talked about prophecies, and tongues, and knowledge, and wonderful gifts, it seemed an awful come-down to say that without love they were nothing.
A carnal mind will never exalt love above a hard task well done. It cheapens the medals men …
“Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sounds throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” —Leviticus 25:9–10
We know that Jesus did not come to dwell among men until four thousand years of human history had been …
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