“And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.”—Revelation 14:13
The day after our father’s death last May, we five children, who had come from different parts of the country, were sitting together and talking through our tears of his last days, and recalling the virtues of his noble life, when a messenger boy entered the room and handed me a telegram. I opened it and read aloud as follows: …
“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”—Matthew 6:10
This sin-riddled world is not as it should be. There is pain, heartache, and brokenness everywhere. Just turn on the news. That’s why this phrase in the Lord’s Prayer resonates with me so deeply. We long for things to be made right “on earth as it is in heaven.” Don’t you yearn for God to mend all that’s been broken?
Jesus knows what it’s like to live in this broken-down world. And He knows how to pray His way through the heartache as well. In …
“After this manner, therefore, pray ye.”—Matthew 6:9
“Our Father.” We have seen that real prayer though public is secret in that it deals with God alone, and now it appears that even solitary prayer should be social. We are so united in family ties to all Christians that one of us cannot suffer without all suffering and none of us can rejoice without all rejoicing. A blessing upon one is, therefore, a blessing upon all and a curse upon one is a curse upon all. “I,” “me,” and “my” do not occur in this prayer, while “we,” “us,” …
In the sixth Psalm, David deals particularly with the judgments of God and the need of mercy upon the part of the individual saint, for strange as it may seem, paradoxical as it may appear to say it, saints are sinners. What I mean by that is that though every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ has been sanctified in the sense that he is set apart to God in all the value of the finished work and the atoning blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and therefore he is perfected forever in His sight, yet the fact remains that …
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” —Matthew 4:4
Have you ever thought there was any strength in the words that proceeded out of the mouth of God? I thank God there came a day in my life when I began to see that I could live on the promises, that God’s Word was all that was necessary. In my little room, I began to ask, “Where did this world come from anyhow?” I knew science, but I found this little phrase in the Bible, “In whom all …
This crisis involves the whole Christian program. You may take any declaration of faith you please, put forth by a modern evangelical body, and follow its articles from the first to the last, and you will not find a one of them left intact. Modernists who are professors in our evangelical denominational schools, and later graduates who go from their feet to occupy evangelical pulpits, have not left undisputed a single declaration of our holy faith. They deny that “the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired;” they scorn the thought that “It is a perfect treasure of heavenly …
“And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them …
You will find my text in the Gospel as recorded by Luke, chapter 23, and at verse 33: “And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.”
Upon that hill lone and gray, outside of the city wall, three crosses stood. Upon the center cross the King of love died and on the other two there were thieves, perishing because of their iniquity. Seeing that these three victims died together it seems to me that these three crosses speak …
The tragedy of the crucifixion is one thing, the glory of the cross is quite another. In its tragedy, it is repulsive. In its deeper meaning, it is most attractive. There is a big monument on Bunker Hill that was built—not to the tragedy, but to a deeper feeling that we call patriotism. There were men there who were willing to die for what they believed to be right, and this monument was erected to their memory, and so the crucifixion of our Lord was one of the most repulsive things this world …
What a happy message we have, telling about our risen Lord! Every other great religious leader is dead. Every other one who formed a religion is dead. Every other one who framed a new faith is dead. Our Lord is risen! As those sorrowing friends approached the tomb, that first Easter morning, they found the stone rolled away and an angel was there who seemed to know a great deal about their business. The angel said, “You seek Jesus.” How did he know whom they were seeking, how did he know what was in their hearts? I wonder whether he …
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