“Everyone shall be salted with fire.” Mark 9:49 Now let us read what the learned John Gill said in his “Expositor” about our Lord’s words. [Read more…]
83. My Help
It was not good for Adam to be alone. The Lord therefore created Eve to be his wife, as the AV puts it, “a help meet for him.” A more comprehensive translation would be “a help, his real counterpart.” It was therefore God’s plan and design that a man’s wife should not just be his “real counterpart”, but also his “helper”. [Read more…]
84. Our Stories
The man who refuses to allow his wife any freedom of speech in the spiritual progress of their lives, throttles the voice of the Holy Spirit to himself. The woman who throttles that same Voice, allowing herself to be a ‘doormat’, prevents her husband from being moulded by His word through her. [Read more…]
85. Filling up that which is lacking
“The hope of the Gospel . . . whereof I Paul am made a minister, who now rejoices in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for the sake of His Body, the Church.” (Colossians 1:23-24) [Read more…]
86. Road Rage
One hears increasingly of the “Road Rage” phenomenon these days, people seemingly obsessed, or possessed, by a violent spirit when in charge of a car. Latent violence is unleashed by people who might otherwise be self-controlled and of a friendly disposition. Foul language, rude finger signs, facial grimaces, these are the least hurtful of the observed effects. Sadly, one hears all too often that a man jumps from his car and attacks the owner of another car, or if this proves impossible, he takes it out on the car itself. Sometimes there are cases of ramming into “offending” vehicles, regardless of the subsequent costs, which often are not met by Insurance claims. [Read more…]
87. Immanuel
What music there is in that name – Immanuel. To many of God’s sons and daughters the name Immanuel causes a tingling down the spine, a heady sense of other worldliness, a feeling of the nearness of the divine presence, a sense of safety, security, peace, life, tranquillity, beauty and wonderment. [Read more…]
88. Daughters of Thunder
James and John were surnamed by the Lord “Boanerges“, meaning “sons of thunder.” (Mark 3:17) In the early years of the 19th century there was an Irishman by the name of Patrick Brunty, (1777-1861) who decided to change the spelling of his name to Brontë, the Greek word for thunder. He was a clergyman. His wife Maria Branwell (1783-1821) was Cornish. In 1820Brontë moved to Haworth, in Yorkshire, where he became Rector. He had four children, Charlotte (1816-1855), Patrick Branwell (1817-1848), Emily (1818-1848), and Anne (1820-1849). [Read more…]
89. Casting off all Restraint
As churches of Jesus Christ, many of us are bringing shame upon the Master because of a modern tendency to cast off all restraint. It appears in varied forms in different places, but essentially it betrays the same feature, namely a desire to break out of traditional moulds, remove ancient boundary markers, and divest ourselves of things we feel are like strait-jackets. Let me explain. [Read more…]
90. Food, glorious Food!
In the last number I wrote in general about the moral law of the Old Testament. In this paper I should like to address the subject of Food, simply because it was an important issue to the Hebrews under Moses, and persists today in what the Jews call Kosher foods, those allowed under Mosaic legislation, and checked by local Rabbis. In a word, does any of this apply to Christians? Let’s investigate. [Read more…]
91. The Kindly Laws of the Old Testament
In this third and last paper on the subject of God’s Laws, we have been warmed and instructed by a small booklet having the above title, written by Thomas Cameron. (Lutterworth Press, 1945) I should like to use his thesis, with a few additions, in this article. [Read more…]
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