Tetelestai was a familiar word shouted by a faithful Savior. He came to do the Father’s will and he did it. He came to purchase our redemption and he did it. He came to do a great work, the work of sa...
Storms do come to our lives. What causes them? Sometimes other people cause them. In Acts 27 Paul got into a storm because the people in charge of the ship would not listen to the Word of God. Sometim...
Sow a thought and you reap an action. Sow an action and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Someone has said that experience is a tough teacher because it always gives the exam first and teaches the lesson afterward. If we turn our mistakes into mirrors, we’ll see only ourselves, and this wi...
Some people today still imagine that salvation is inherited. Because mother and father were godly people, the children are automatically saved. But this is not true. It has well been said, God has no...
Salvation is not exchanging one form of bondage for another. Salvation is being set free from the bondage of sin and the law into the liberty of God’s grace through Christ.
Principles are like rocks, and methods are like rivers; together they get the job done.
Perhaps the deepest Christian fellowship and joy we can experience in this life is at the throne of grace, praying with and for one another.
Of itself, suffering doesn’t make people better. Sometimes it makes them bitter. But when suffering is mixed with faith and God’s grace, then it becomes a wonderful tool for building godly character (...
Note that God chose us even before He created the universe, so that our salvation is wholly of His grace and not on the basis of anything we ourselves have done.
Not all the blood of beasts, On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain. But Christ the heavenly Lamb, Takes all our sins away; A sacrifice of nobler name A...
Nearly twenty years before, Hudson Taylor had written in an editorial: All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them. As he looked at h...
Most men quarrel with this [the sovereignty of God]. But mark, the thing that you complain of in God is the very thing that you love in yourselves. Every man likes to feel that he has a right to do wi...
Money is the god of this world, and it empowers millions of people to enjoy life by living on substitutes. With money, they can buy entertainment, but they can’t buy joy. They can go to the drugstore...
Ministry takes place when divine resources meet human needs through loving channels to the glory of God.
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that; but he is the best who wins the most s...
It has well been said that an opinion is something that you hold, but a conviction is something that holds you. Most of us have very few convictions, but the ones we do have are important to us. Convi...
In times of difficulty, if we die to self and put God’s will first (Matt. 6:33), we can be sure that He will either take us out of the trouble or bring us through.
If we keep God’s Word before our eyes, we won’t start looking in the wrong direction and doing the wrong things
If we are really constrained by love, then we see every lost sinner we meet—including those who persecute us—as candidates for the new creation.