Moments For You

QUESTION: In Romans 8:28 we read, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." Who are the ones that God has called? ANSWER: We believe that the Bible teaches that the called ones... Read more →

Amazing grace! We sing about it, but what is grace? We can begin by saying that it is God's favor toward us. But it is more than that. It is His undeserved favor. Now let us go a step further. It is His undeserved favor to those who deserve the... Read more →

Direct testimonies are the most obvious sources of proof for the supreme Divinity of Christ. However, we are not obliged to build our faith of the Saviour's Divinity on ten, fifty, or even a hundred passages where it is directly affirmed and taught. This is because it runs as a... Read more →

(This article was written in Rome during the Catholic "Holy Year.") This year many pilgrims are arriving in Rome, from all parts of the world, after having travelled miles and miles, for the purpose of crossing the threshold of the "Holy Door" of St. Peter. It is the Holy Year!... Read more →

"And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will... Read more →

QUESTION: In the gospel of John the Lord Jesus makes this statement: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep My saying, he shall never see death" (John 8:51). This does not seem to be true as I have been to many funerals of Christians who have died.... Read more →

QUESTION: Can you tell me why there are two genealogies of Jesus in the Bible and explain some of the differences between them? ANSWER: It is perhaps well enough known that in the four Gospels there are two genealogies of the Lord Jesus. There is no genealogy in Mark. That... Read more →

The success or failure of everyday living depends upon your power of choice. Every day you are making decisions and your decisions form and build the network of your life and the structure of your personality and character. Not only do the choices that you make affect the direction of... Read more →

QUESTION: What is meant by the expression "obedience of faith" found in Romans 1:5 and Romans 16:26? ANSWER: The verses in question are as follows: "By whom [Jesus Christ] we [the apostles] have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for His Name" (Romans 1:5)... Read more →

"Elijah … prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months" (James 5:17; 1 Kings 17:8-24). The first part of the answer to his prayer led him to Samaria and Ahab. The next to Cherith, where... Read more →

Man's main concern with the dark fact of suffering is not to find an explanation: it is to find a victory. It is not to elaborate a theory; it is to lay hold upon a power. Even if you possessed the answer to the riddle; even if you had it... Read more →

“Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil” (Genesis 41:51). Some things should be forgotten. Joseph could have wasted his life dwelling on the injustices he suffered. As a youth, his brothers sold him into slavery, and he was... Read more →

“His name shall be called Wonderful” (Isaiah 9:6). Here is a name that is an adjective, so we may use it not only as a name by itself, but also as descriptive of all His other names. The more we know Him and love Him, the more we shall delight... Read more →

Of all the disciples of Christ that pass before us in the Gospel story, perhaps none are marked by single-hearted devotedness to Christ more than Mary of Bethany. On the three occasions that she comes before us in the Scriptures, she is found at the feet of Jesus. We see... Read more →

QUESTION: I read in 1 John 4:18 that there is no fear in love. If we do fear we are not made perfect in love. There are times that I do fear. What does this mean?  ANSWER: In answering this question we need to go back a few verses to... Read more →