john-7:38

{Serving as a reply to the second article on "The Church in the Old Testament" in "Our Banner" (an American Periodical), April 16, 1877.} {Bible Herald, 1877, pages 223-256.} I have no pleasure in mere controversy, and as I noticed Mr G.'s previous article* on the church only at the request of those... Read More

WHY DO I GROAN? ROMANS 7 AND 8 THERE is nothing so hard for our hearts as to abide in the sense of grace, to continue practically conscious that " we are not under law, but under grace." It is by grace that the heart is "established"; but then there is nothing more difficult for us really to compreh... Read More

IT IS COMMON when speaking of the Divine happiness to say that God is infinitely happy in the enjoyment of Himself, in perfectly beholding and infinitely loving, and rejoicing in, His own essence and perfection, and accordingly it must be supposed that God perpetually and eternally has a most perfec... Read More

John 7:37, 38 If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, "From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water" The story is told of a prospector in the last century who had to make a four-day journey across a burning desert. He couldn't ... Read More

Surely we're all agreed that second to the absolute need for each of us to have a burning relationship with God, is the need to be in touch with the anguish of the world. Christians become stale, fellowships sterile, if they aren't constantly pressed by the pain of the children of this world. But su... Read More

Every once-in-a-while you meet someone who seems to have figured it out. They don't make a production out of it. They're not in your face with it. But by the way they live, and the way they manage their mouth, they really do seem to be walking close to God. They're reliable, patient, there for you w... Read More

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Isaiah 50:4a The Christmas season is the time when in many ways people are more openhearted, more generous, easier to get along with than any other time of the year. But the Ch... Read More

One day 4,000 years ago the angel of the Lord and two companions paid a visit to Abraham, who had pitched his tent in the hill country of Canaan, far above the Jordan Valley. Off in the distance below the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were glistening in the sunlight. After announcing to Abraham that ... Read More

And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists under­took to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over thos... Read More

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations......" M... Read More