The Remedy for Judging
1) Love. Love is always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient (1 Corinthians 13:7; cf. 1 Peter 4:8). The faults of others will appear thick if our love for...
The Power of Small Deeds
Our efforts in the cause of Christ to influence and win people to Christ often seem so fruitless that we are prone to give up, but they are worth it!
Trembling before God
The most profound reverence characterized the ancient copyists of the Scriptures. When they came to a name for deity, they put new pens in their writing instruments, took a bath, and changed raiment.
It is...
He Finished First, in 211th Place
David Sargent told the story of Josh Ripley.
The Applejack Invitational Cross Country Meet in Lakeville, Minnesota, was underway when Andover High School runner Josh Ripley heard something unusual.
He was in the first mile of...
At His Post
When Pompeii was destroyed, many were buried in its ruins. These were later found in very different situations.
Some were in the streets as if they had been attempting to escape. Some were found in...
We Persuade Men
Believing in the reality of the coming judgment, the apostle Paul wrote, “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men” (2 Corinthians 5:11). If the great men of the Bible had been...
Blessings in Disguise
There was a single survivor of a shipwreck who was thrown upon an uninhabited island. After a while he managed to build a crude hut in which he placed the things he had salvaged...
Do We Speak Up?
Consider the famous quote by Martin Neimoller which came out of the time of the Holocaust:
“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then...