A Lesson Learned When I was four years old my father wanted to buy a house on a lake in California. It was a perfect place to raise his family. When we went down to the boat dock, he gave us all strict orders to stay away from the edge of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“It is Finished!” (John 19:30) Jesus when He had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the Ghost. There is something very striking in this loud voice of Jesus. Not like one exhausted, not as one dispirited but as a Conqueror in the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
He Sat Down While at first glance it may seem such a triviality yet in the life of our LORD Jesus Christ there is important meaning to the phrase ‘He sat down.’ 1. “And he sat down and taught the people out of the ship.”...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Hiding Place A hiding place is needed from sin lest it should destroy the body and soul in hell. Where shall we find it? In the law? That is going out of the wind into the storm. In self? That is the very thing from which we most need shelter....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A Sure Foundation The decree of election stands upon an unchangeable Foundation, to wit, that Rock of Ages, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” (Heb. 13:8) As the first Adam was the foundation stone in the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Trial by Fire “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest by fire…” (1 Cor. 3:12-13) At first glance, many attribute these verses...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Pitched Without and Within “Make thee an ark of gopher wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.” (Genesis 6:14) The word pitch appears only two times in the entire Bible; both of those...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Salvation Conditioned on Jesus Christ Alone A popular message that many believe to be the Gospel today is that God loves everybody, Christ died to save everybody and that the Spirit of God is working to try to get as many saved as possible but...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
