Seeing and Receiving

“To open their eyes…that they may receive…” Acts 26:18 This verse is the grandest example of the true essence of the message of a disciple of Jesus Christ in all the New Testament. God’s first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words – “that they may receive forgiveness of sins” (Acts 26:18). When…More

My Life

MY LIFE IS NOT FUTILE. MY FAILURES ARE NOT FATAL. MY DEATH IS NOT FINAL! IN CHRIST JESUS!!! AMEN!! By Max Lucado (with addition of last four words)More

Doing and Being

It is not what a person does that is of final importance, but what they are in what they do. The atmosphere produced by a person, much more than their activities, has the lasting influence. Oswald ChambersMore

Yesterday

“You shall not go out with haste, … for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.” Isaiah 52:12 (NKJV) Security from Yesterday. “God requires an account of what is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has…More

God Getting Us Alone

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. Oswald ChambersMore

Christ-Like Love

“Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another, love as brothers (and sisters), be tenderhearted, be courteous (and humble).” 1Peter 3:8 (NKJV) It would be a marvel to find in any community under heaven a complete expression of the instructions contained in this and the following verses. Yet nothing less…More

Experience or God’s Revealed Truth?

“We have received…the spirit Who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.” 1 Corinthians 2:12 (NKJV) My experience is not what makes redemption real – redemption is reality. Redemption has no real meaning for me until it is worked out through my conscious life. When I…More

The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting His way with us. Oswald ChambersMore

The Love and Holiness of God

When we speak of the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness. Oswald ChambersMore

Peace and a Sword

There must be a sense of need created before a message is of any use. Many people in this world profess to be happy without God. But if we could be truly happy and moral without Jesus, then why did He come? He came because that kind of happiness and peace is only superficial. Jesus…More