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"The Triumph of the Cross!" What a seeming contradiction! The Cross--beatings, mockings, injustice, false accusations, excruciating pain, death. But also triumph! Satan defeated, Salvation provided, resurrection, ascension, enthronement! We Christians who live almost 2000 years after all this took p... Read More

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise" (Ps. 51:17). "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to rev... Read More

"God hath highly exalted (Christ), and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow...and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2:9-11). Preeminently, all true revival is about God bringing glory b... Read More

"Speak the truth in love" is the scriptural injunction (Ephesians 4:15). As easy as it seems we often see how difficult it is to obtain this balance. We so often become censorious or compromising. Some "contend for the faith" as they call it, quoting Jude 3, with bared fangs and upraised paws. The C... Read More

There are three great motives that urge us to humility. It becomes me as a creature, as a sinner, as a saint. Humility as a creature we see in the heavenly hosts, in unfallen man, in Jesus as Son of Man. Humility as a sinner appeals to us in our fallen state, and points out the only way through whic... Read More

"[God] having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, whether things in earth or things in heaven" (Colossians 1:20). The Apostle Paul uses here an expression of deep significance -- "the blood of His cross." We know how greatly he valued the e... Read More

The entire inner world of thought must be brought under the control of the Holy Spirit so that the Spirit may bring "into capitvity" every thought to the obedience of Christ, and cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. The conquest of the mind m... Read More

Give me a heart like Thine; By Thy wonderful power, By Thy grace every hour, Give me a heart like Thine. We sang that verse with all our might one morning in one of those hours of heart-humbling and heart-searching, when I was a cadet in the training home, and at least one of the cadets looked throu... Read More

"I am in the midst of you as he that serveth" (Luke 22:27). In the Gospel of John we have the inner life of our Lord laid open to us. Jesus speaks frequently of His relation to the Father, of the motives by which He is guided, of His consciousness of the power and spirit in which He acts. Though the... Read More

"O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto Thee!" (Daniel 9:7). What a blessed, glorious truth!" God alone is the possessor of righteousness! This is one of the great, profound truths of the Bible. God and He alone is the exclusive source of righteousness, the One in whom the righteousness that saves the... Read More