Moments For You

Most readers are probably too young to remember the “mourner’s bench.” I did not grow up in a church that had one, but I knew friends who did. The mourners’ bench was simply a place to kneel at the front of the church where the sinner could weep over and... Read more →

Some believers don’t feel blessed because they are looking for a thorn-free rose garden blooming with all the stuff that will make their lives comfortable, prosperous, and pain-free. God never promised us a rose garden. At least, not in this life. He did give us a perfect garden once, and... Read more →

“Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but … the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:13,14). The Need To travel from Judea to Galilee, an orthodox Jew would cross the Jordan near Jericho and... Read more →

That famous example of prayer we often call “The Lord’s Prayer” (Matthew 6:9-13) begins with “Our Father which art in Heaven.” Everything that follows: conversing with Him, praising Him, petitioning Him—these things all start by knowing Him as “Father.” Is God your Father? Put another way: Are you a child... Read more →

A prison chaplain noticed an inmate who had been tasked with mending uniforms. Greeting the man cheerfully, he said, “Good morning, friend! Sewing?” “No, sir,” replied the inmate with a grim smile. “Reaping!” As the book of Daniel opens, the southern kingdom of Judah is about to reap a bitter... Read more →

“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope” (1 Timothy 1:1). Paul did not always acknowledge Jesus as Lord, or as his hope. Looking back on those days he speaks of himself as the chief of sinners... Read more →

Jesus asked His disciples two questions: “Who do men say that I am?” and “Who do you say that I am?” (Mark 8:27,29). The first question is significant because it allows us to get a read on the minds of the people around us. The second question, however, is eternal... Read more →

Yes indeed, God is love. But this part of God’s character was not always revealed to man. After the flood, when God had shown Himself as an unrelenting judge, He revealed Himself to Abraham as the Almighty God, the possessor of heaven and earth. More than four hundred years later... Read more →

In the Scriptures, we see great variety in the Apostles who are gathered around the Lord Jesus. There is the impulsive Peter, and the reasoning Thomas. There are some like Simon Zelotes who are never prominent, while others like James and John are always in the foreground. Peter is singled... Read more →

“The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). There is one word in this portion of holy Scripture to which we would call your attention. It is the word lost. This is God’s own word, used by Him to describe the... Read more →

I cannot imagine an affirmation that would meet with more resistance from contemporary Westerners than the one Paul makes in 1 Timothy 2:5: “There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” This declaration is narrow and downright un-American. We have been inundated with... Read more →

“For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). Before our thoughts turn to service to the Lord, and our work for Him, it is very necessary to have our hearts occupied with... Read more →

David was a shepherd and had a shepherd’s heart. One day, as he faithfully kept his father’s sheep, a lion came and took a lamb out of the flock. This stirred David’s heart, and he tells us: “I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of... Read more →