Christmas—gifts, family, and yes, of course, Jesus!
We know the baby in the manger grew to become a man, died for our sins, was raised from the dead, and ascended into heaven. However, at Christmastime especially we hear it said, “Jesus came to redeem the whole world!” But as all of us know, the whole world is not redeemed. In fact, when speaking to the shepherds, the angels themselves affirmed “peace among those with whom he is pleased” (Luke 2:14). Not all people benefit from the coming of Christ; His gifts of …
An address delivered by Rev. James M. Gray, D.D., President of the Moody Bible Institute, in The Moody Church Tabernacle, on the occasion of laying the cornerstone of the D.L. Moody Memorial Church and Sunday School Building, December 16, 1924.
My dear brethren: I have in my files in the Moody Bible Institute a newspaper editorial that I greatly prize. It appeared in one of the morning dailies of this great city. It is entitled, “Chicago’s Most Notable Citizen,” and the citizen of whom it speaks is D.L. Moody, who was, under God, the founder of this church. And I …
Excerpts from Mr. Philpott’s address at the laying of the cornerstone. “Would rather see The Moody Church disorganized and go into oblivion than to have it continue on other than the Bible lines on which it was founded and continues until this day.”
I want to express my personal gratitude to God that we have come to this hour in our great undertaking. Every little advance made has encouraged our faith. Tonight we lay the cornerstone of the D.L. Moody Memorial Church building, and I am supremely happy.
Personally, I feel very unworthy to be the pastor of this great …
“Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.” —Psalm 68:1
The world has reached the place where a great many people have the feeling that if God ever did care about the earth, He has ceased to care; many feel that if He ever did have any pity, His pity has gone from Him; that if His eye ever did watch the sparrow in its fall, that eye is closed; that if He ever did count the hairs of men’s heads, the millions of headless in this war [World War I] …
“For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first.” —2 Thessalonians 2:3
There are also four or five verses in the eighth chapter of Jeremiah that I want to use as a backbone of the things I wish to say to you. I want to show how we “lose out”; how we “fall away.”
I want to talk very tenderly—as tenderly as I know how, by the power of the Holy Spirit, about the grave danger that is surrounding your life—the danger in the day in which we live of your losing the rich things of …
“I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” —Ephesians 4:1–6
In chapters one to three, we have been studying the doctrinal section …
This year is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Both Protestants and Catholics are asking: What relevance, if any, do controversies from hundreds of years ago have on us today? Some would say, “Let the past be the past and let’s concentrate on the present.”
But I maintain that the better we understand our past, the better we understand ourselves. Studying the Reformation is like finding a long lost relative who gives you insight into your family history and helps you understand who you are today. Whether we realize it or not, all of us have been influenced by …
Someone has said that the disciples were gazing when they should have been going. They were now commissioned to go first to the upper room until Pentecost, which means fifty days; that is, fifty days after the Passover was the feast of Pentecost. The real Passover had come at last, “The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world” had been slain, and fifty days from His slaying the Holy Spirit came with the real feast of Pentecost, making His advent into this world, blessed Third Person of the Trinity. When He came, what Jesus said to …
In order to see just what the incarnation is, you must turn to Galatians 4:4–7, “When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ,” a joint heir.
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”—Isaiah 53:6
Notice how we went astray: “We have turned every one to his own way.” That is sin. Your way is not God’s way. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Those are God’s words. Your way is sin, and that is the reason He tells you that you went astray; “All we like sheep have …
