Our purpose is to hear God speak in Jesus Christ, and to heed that Word. If our purpose is to know Christ better and exalt Him more, then whatever differences we may have in our understanding of the b...
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...
Lifted up was He to die, It is finished was His cry; Now in heav’n exalted high, Hallelujah, what a Savior! (Philip P. Bliss)
Life’s trials are not easy. But in God’s will, each has a purpose. Often He uses them to enlarge you. Are you feeling confined? Be encouraged that God delights in delivering you from confinement. Diff...
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’s the strength of our faith and not the length of our prayers that pleases him.
It has been said that most people in our world are being crucified between two thieves: the regrets of yesterday and the worries about tomorrow. That’s why they can’t enjoy today. Relying on modern me...
In his birth announcement, Jesus declared that his incarnation gave to him a body that he would offer as a sacrifice for the sins of the world. Therefore, when he came into the world, he said: Sacrifi...
I have thanked Him for it, she wrote to her sisters, more than I have prayed about it.
God’s chosen servants must expect opposition and misunderstanding, because that’s part of what it means to be a leader; and leaders must know how to get alone with God, pour out their hearts, and seek...
God’s call to real worship, to an experience of transformation, is a call to dangerous and costly Christian living.
God doesn’t want us to ignore the past; the past should be a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back.
Everyone has days of trouble. When circumstances entrap you and trouble closes around you, pray to the Lord. He knows how to turn your trouble into triumph. Although He may not answer your prayers the...
Edwards would never divorce the mind and the heart.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men and women. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. That wise counsel comes from American preacher and Episc...
But it is not the length of life that counts—it is the depth and strength of life.
Your life is only as big as your faith, and your faith is only as big as your God. If you spend all your time looking at yourself, you will get discouraged, but if you look to God by faith, you will b...
You may think that you are insignificant in the great plan of God, but you are not. You are tremendously important to God—so much so that Jesus died for you, and the Holy Spirit lives in you. You may...
When you start to question or forget the grace of God and the goodness of God, you will find it much easier to disobey the will of God.
When you fear the Lord, you don’t need to fear people or circumstances. Peter referred to this passage when he wrote, But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. ‘Do not fear wha...