“As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?” (Psalm 42:1-2). Do you talk to yourself? If you do, several of the Psalms affirm that this...
Without the manifestation of the Son of God the works of the devil are not destroyed (I John 3:8); and without His followers continually revealing His Love among themselves, He is not manifested to the world. This Love cannot be manifested in and through us without choosing to let death...
“… We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10). God the Son became Man. It stands as one of the mysteries of Christianity and of all of human history. Jesus had to take on flesh and bone. He became like us in...
“Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession” (Hebrews 3:1). Hebrews 3 begins with reproof. This word, when we hear it or read it, usually takes our mind to thoughts of correction or discipline. Reproof is not a word that is...
“The Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom you delight in; behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts” (Malachi 3:1). Jesus arrived at the Temple of Jerusalem in John 2. He got an up-close view of the business...
“Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead. …” (2 Timothy 2:3) Paul wrote these words to Timothy, a son in the faith to the apostle, a fellow laborer, and a brother in the Lord. This led off a series of instructions from one whose life would soon be ended by...
Bill Alderson, Baltimore On Saturday, September 26, a bunch of us from the church ventured down Interstate 95 to Washington, DC, to be part of a great gathering of Christians at the Mall to pray and to recognize together America’s need for God to move. It was a glorious display...
“Present your bodies as a living sacrifice. …” Paul wrote this statement in his letter to the Romans. He called this “holy, acceptable, and reasonable service.” How are we to serve the Lord? This great missionary and theological mind told readers that it starts with the body. A statement such...
The Corinthian church was a church of activity, an assembly blessed with gifted people. However, as gifted as it was, this congregation still had its problems, as we can see in the pages of the letters Paul wrote to these Christians. In the words about this collection of believers at...
As I sat with a few ladies in the home of one the women in our church, laughing and crying and sharing life, I couldn’t help but pause in the midst of it to observe the scene before me. We sat in an 8’x8’x8’ “living room” with white walls, long...
