Moments For You

Few words in the language are as hard to comprehend as this synonym for forever-ness. To feel its frustrating elusiveness, just think back to the time before the world was made, then back to that period before even the angels were created, back to the time when there was nothing... Read more →

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10). The promise of Romans 8:28 that "all things work together for good" is only given to "them that love God, to them who... Read more →

"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:14,15) This is the second "must" in the third chapter of John. If man must be born again... Read more →

A Promised Judgment It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. (Hebrews 9:27) He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that... Read more →

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). Sins Taken Away, Life... Read more →

SALVATION means to be rescued from sin and its punishment and set free to know, love, and serve God. Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin…. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed" (John 8:34,36).... Read more →

"If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." (1 Corinthians 15:14,17). Everything depends upon this one central fact: a risen Christ. His Claims Unfulfilled If Jesus Christ had not risen, what would it have meant so far as He Himself was concerned?... Read more →

"Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that... Read more →

“Of whom the world was not worthy” (Hebrews 11:38). Faith accomplishes marvellous deliverances. The mouths of lions can do no injury to believing Daniel, for God sent His angel to shut the lions' mouths. The violence of fire, heated seven times furiously, is made of no effect by faith; the fourth... Read more →

"But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 1:20). Joseph's presence... Read more →

Paul's desire was "That I may know Him" (Philippians 3:10). Note that he did not say, "That I may know about Him." Many people will sympathize with you and possibly follow along in pursuit of knowledge about Jesus Christ. But say, like Paul did, that your goal is to know... Read more →

Let's begin by getting acquainted with the king. His Persian name was Khshayarshan, which in Hebrew becomes Ahasuerus and in the Greek language, Xerxes. His father was Darius I, and his grandfather Cyrus the Great. Ahasuerus ruled over the Persian empire from 486 to 465 B.C.. Like most monarchs of... Read more →

People would like a convenient and comfortable means of knowing God's will, but there exists no means of ascertaining it without reference to the state of our own soul. We sometimes seek God's will, desiring to know how to act in circumstances in which His only will is that we... Read more →

"When He had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, He looked up to Heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided He among them all…. And they that did eat of the loaves were... Read more →

John the Baptist said “Behold the Lamb of God” (John 1:29,36). What does it mean to “behold” something? It means to look at, to observe, or watch it carefully. Who should take a closer look at Jesus? The Careless Sinner Those who live in the neglect of God and of... Read more →