The Lord delights to work with ‘babes and sucklings.’ These are not yet known for wisdom. But God reveals great realities to those the world considers foolish, weak, base, and despicable nobodies. This revelation is both general and special. General revelation is primarily what God reveals about Himself through creation. A man looks up at…
The Lord Jesus challenges us to build our lives, our families, and our churches in preparation for the coming storms. Wisdom knows that storms ARE coming into our lives. Rain will beat down. Floodwaters will rise and threaten the very foundations. Winds will be turbulent, threatening to topple…
This week’s church memory verse is 2 Peter 1:3-4 – ‘According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and …
‘Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news?’ How do you usually reply? In this verse the angels are offered good news. The long-awaited Messiah, Saviour and Lord had finally arrived! How do you usually respond to good news? Are you indifferent? Irritated? Probably not! Most people usually respond to…
This week’s church memory verse is Micah 5:2 – ‘But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee …
This week’s church memory verse is 1 Peter 5:10 – ‘But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ …
This week’s church memory verse is James 4:4 – ‘Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? …
The commands of God are not heavy or burdensome. The Lord Jesus said, ‘My yoke is easy, and my burden is light’ (Matthew 11:30). Like all verses, today’s verse has a context. God’s commandments to love the unlovable, to be benevolent toward the ornery, and to forbear or tolerate…
It would be a mistake to conclude from this verse that Christians can be sinless. Greek grammarians will know that both the phrase ‘doth not commit sin’ and ‘cannot sin’ are present active indicative, speaking of going on sinning. The…
This week’s church memory verse is Hebrews 13:17 – ‘Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your …
This ‘righteous man’ is Lot, nephew of Abraham. The previous verse says ‘just Lot’ was ‘vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.’ This word ‘vexed’ means ‘to tire down with toils, to exhaust with labour.’ The ‘vexed’ in verse 8 is different, and it means ‘to torture, to torment, to trouble greatly, to afflict, to oppress with evils.’ Notice that this was…
