The last words of Scripture before the benediction are not a command, a condemnation, or a prophecy — they are an invitation, and that invitation is deliberately open to anyone who will come. The book of Revelation closes with a scene of cosmic completion: the new…
Jesus lived an ideal life in an unideal world — and it required courage at every level: with friends who needed correcting, enemies who sought his death, and false teachers who controlled the institutions of his day. He did not live an easy life. He was…
The Christian home is God’s nursery and training school — the first and most influential church any child will ever attend — and its success depends on parents who are Christians first and children who are taught to obey God through obeying their parents. God established…
“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places” (John 14:1-2). Jesus said that on the night He was betrayed, to people who were about to watch everything they thought they understood fall…
“It is well to tell the sick of a physician; the poor of riches; the dying of life; the lost of a Savior; and the impenitent of hell.” The opening line is exactly right. This is not a subject a preacher enjoys. But silence on hell…
People find many ways to evade truth they actually see — doubting the Bible, twisting its interpretation, claiming it no longer applies, acting by policy instead of principle, professing without practicing, or dismissing it as “mere ideals” — but to evade truth is to admit one…
The Lord’s work requires some money, but money holds a subordinate place; the New Testament way of raising it is free, willing, liberal, regular first-day giving — not human fundraising systems that shift the emphasis from the spiritual to the financial — for the church is…
God and man value things differently; man is forever putting first what God puts last, and last what God puts first — so the whole art of right living is to see and rank things as God does, and “seek first His kingdom and His righteousness.”…
Paul’s five rapid charges — watch, stand fast in the faith, act like men, be strong, and let all be done in love — together outline the whole of Christian conduct: alert, steadfast, courageous, strong, and governed by love. Some Scriptures instruct, some comfort, some command…
In the Bible a “fool” is not the simple or unintelligent but the morally condemned, and Scripture marks out four classes — the atheist, the ignorant church member, the rich fool, and the “wise fool” who knows God’s will and will not do it, the last…