Articles: 47
Teaching on integrity, humility, and the growth of Christlike character in daily life.
There are some things in life that are seemingly inexplicable. You try and try to figure them out, and then you just take them for granted, and finally just laugh at them and go on. I am thinking specifically of our…
One who lets go of or leaves something is a “detached” person. Although one who has been abandoned may be called a detached person, the difference is that “abandoned” is passive (the action has been done to him) and…
Some time ago, while traveling through Virginia, I picked up a copy of “The Roanoke Times,” with a picture of Moammar Gadhafi on the cover. They quoted him as saying, “I am a fighter, a revolutionary from the tents. I…
The church at Ephesus had many good works, they had much knowledge, but they had left the first love. How do we leave our first love? It seems we too easily get the idea we’ve lost our first love and don’t know how to…
We will borrow from John Bunyan’s literary practice of personifying human characteristics and give names to some familiar faces. First is the act of fretting—we will call him Mr. Worry. Do you ever worry about things…
Three times in the first two chapters of the book of Job, we find that Job was called a “perfect and upright man.” And two times God even comments that “there is none like him in the earth.” Job loved righteousness and…
That they may teach the young women ... And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth. Ju 11:36 Jephthah’s daughter is a…
I let a little sinful thought Dwell in my heart one day. I meant to play with it awhile And then send it away. Of course I kept it hidden well So none would ever know That I had entertained a guest Of character so low.…
Every person, when he first applies himself to the exercise of this virtue of humility, must consider himself to be a learner. He has to learn something that is contrary to his former thinking and habits of mind, and…
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my…
That they may teach the young women ... What would you think if one morning upon waking you were to read your own obituary in the paper? This actually happened to Alfred Nobel, originator of the famous Nobel Prizes in…
It is appalling to me the amount of empty, silly foolishness that characterizes the western world, and nowhere is this drivel so prevalent than on blogs, websites, and other means of communications. Our culture, as a…
To refresh your memory of the story of the child Samuel and Eli (which is not printed here for the sake of space), please read 1 Samuel 3:1-19. In our text, young Samuel had every right to be afraid to tell Eli about the…
I find this story inspiring because the man remembered that God sees everything and allows no temptation above what we are able to bear. He knew that no matter how much he suffered here, his tormentors would be punished…
This sums up the spirit of Phil. 2:5-8: Because we children of Adam want to be great –HE BECAME SMALL. Because we are always seeking to climb higher –HE STEPPED DOWN. Because we will not stoop –HE HUMBLED HIMSELF.…
When you are forgotten or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don’t sting, and hurt with the insult or the oversight, but your heart is happy, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ, THAT IS DYING TO SELF…
Used of God to bring about the “Great Awakening” in America. Known for the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”. Considered by many to be the “Father of the Evangelical Church”. My question as I read this is…if…
One of the most impressive historical accounts of radical Christianity and Christian persecution was recorded soon after the Reformation in a large book entitled The Martyrs Mirror. This stout-hearted work was compiled…
Lamenting over the chains of our carnal nature and the shackles of our feeble efforts, the apostle Paul cries out in Romans 7:24, “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?” If Paul were to…
What is it? Gambling? Liquor? White-collar crime? Sexual immorality? No. It is the use of television. What began as a scientific breakthrough in the late 40’s with the promise of much good for mankind, has now been used…
The nineteenth century witnessed the greatest advance the Christian church had ever known. Missions, education and evangelism flourished and prospered. Great names emerged: Livingstone, Spurgeon, Booth, Finney, and…
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