The Language God Speaks
God and man used to talk together freely. But one day man went away from God. And then he went farther away. He left home. He left his native land, Eden, where he lived with God. He emigrated from God. And through going away he lost his mother-tongue…
Prophecy of the Snake Crusher
The promise of Genesis 3:15 stands as a prophecy that we shall be afflicted by the powers of evil in our lower nature, and thus bruised in our heel, but we shall triumph in Christ, who sets His foot on the old serpent’s head.
The Key to Every Doctrine
When you take Christ in this light, and consider man in this state, and then all that is said in the gospel stands in the fullest light…
Eternity, Time, and God
Since God is uncreated, He is not himself affected by that succession of consecutive changes we call time. God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays. An illustration offered by C. S. Lewis may help us here…
Dead Christianity: Its Cause and Cure
Here is the reason for the prevalent powerlessness. Here is the cause of carnal and spineless Christianity. But—if we may change the figure—here also is the golden key, the magic open sesame, to the door of revival…
God With Us
His light appeared and made the darkness of the prison disappear, and hallowed our birth and destroyed death, loosing those same fetters in which we were enchained…
The Gospel is Simply Jesus
A Gospel is either a word which implies the actual presence to the believer of something that is good, or a word promising the arrival of a good which is expected. Now all these definitions apply to those books which are named Gospels…
The Perfect Death
It is possible to speak much and honestly of fellowship with a despised and rejected Jesus, and of bearing His cross, while the meek and lowly, the kind and gentle humility of the Lamb of God is not seen, is scarcely sought. The Lamb of God means two things…
The Flesh’s Deepest Desire
Many agree that the Lord will satisfy our hearts. But can your flesh — your body, with all of it’s appetites, longings, and desires — be fully satisfied by Him?
Remain in the Secret Place
If thou wilt that I come unto thee and abide with thee, purge out the old leaven and cleanse the habitation of thy heart. Shut out the whole world, and all the throng of sins; sit as a sparrow alone upon the house-top, and think upon…
Do You Know Him?
Do you know Jesus? I know that you know about Jesus, plenty about Him—but do you know Him?…
The God Who Needs No One
Christians today appear to know Christ only after the flesh. They try to achieve communion with Him by divesting Him of His burning holiness and unapproachable majesty…
How to Abide in Every Moment
Christians are so accustomed to look upon sinning daily as something absolutely inevitable, that they regard it as a matter of course that no one can keep up abiding fellowship with the Saviour: we must sometimes be unfaithful and fail. As if He would give us the command, “Abide in me,” without securing the grace and the power to enable us to perform it!
Meditate on This Every Day…
In Christ we have a man on this earth who perfectly carried out the will of God. In Him it became clear what God meant when He said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Gen. 1:26). Christ’s life on earth is the perfect explanation of the meaning of the creation of man. Therefore…
Fishers of Men
In Capernaum he found his first disciples among the fishermen on the lake. He told them that thenceforth they might expect to catch, not fish, but men. What did they see in him?
A Glimpse Into Jesus’ Prayer Life
The man is resting within the cleft of a rock, hanging his barefoot feet above the ground below; his palms, upturned, sit perfectly still on the tops of his thighs. The expression of his face is sheer delight…
What Has Been Passing for Christianity…
What Christianity needs is that it shall be filled to overflowing with the spirit of Jesus. What has been passing for Christianity during these nineteen centuries…
Speak of Jesus
In a world that lauds degrees and education, we are tempted to find something “more sophisticated” than Jesus to talk about. When standing before a congregation that responds to self-help messages and how-to messages, one can feel the need to find something “more practical” than Jesus to talk about…
The Poetry of Christ
Come hither all, all ye—with him is rest; and he will raise no difficulties, he does but one thing: he opens his arms. Let him but behold a sinner, and he not only stands still, opening his arms and saying “come hither,” nay…
The Secret Key to Holiness
What, it must be asked, is the secret key to this holy and worshipping witness on which the justification of the godless and the peace of God’s children depend? The one and only key is…