Weekly Article (Page 17)

“Your way was in the sea, Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps were not known. You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.” (Psalm 77:19–20)) The design of Providence may sometimes lie very hid; and therefore it is good to wait, and not be rash (Ps 77.19). Sometimes Providence seems to forget the promise; it is not so, but only the time…

“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.” (Romans 6:12–13) The doctrines of grace cannot be turned into an excuse for immoral living.…

Losing our vision along the path is quite easy. The daily chores, routines, and stresses of life take over. Each next step seems all important. At times we are simply trying to make it through the day or even the next hour. Even godly pursuits such as reading the Bible, praying, memorizing Scripture, and exercising hospitality lose focus. And the vision is lost. What…

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” (James 2:26) James 2:12-26 is concerned to distinguish authentic faith from the mere profession of faith. James critiques the person who “says he has faith” in v.14 and then says in v.18 that you cannot demonstrate faith without good works. Why are good works the necessary proof…

Romans 12:10 tells Christians to “Love one another with brotherly affection.” Give yourself to the Church. You that are members of the Church have not found it perfect and I hope that you feel almost glad that you have not. If I had never joined a Church till I had found one that was perfect, I would never have joined one at all! And the moment I did join it, if I had…

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart…”(Deut 6:5) True Christians want God to dominate their thinking and to fill their minds with ideas of Himself. If we want to love God more, we have to know Him more deeply. And the more we search the Scriptures, and the more we focus our minds’ attention on who God is and what He does, the more we understand just a tiny…

“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup…” The Visible Word “But as our faith is slight and feeble unless it be propped on all sides and sustained by every means, it trembles, wavers, totters, and at last gives way. Here our merciful Lord, according to his infinite kindness, so tempers himself to our capacity that, since we are creatures who always creep on…

Romans 4:25 tells us that Jesus was “raised for our justification.” To understand what this means, we have to remember that death was not a part of God’s original creation but was introduced as part of the punishment for sin (Genesis 2-3). Jesus could die on the cross only because the sins of others were imputed to Him, placed on Him so that He could…

“And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved” (Acts 2:47) I am a church member. I like the metaphor of membership. It’s not membership as in a civic organization or a country club. It’s the kind of membership given to us in 1 Cor 12: “Now you are the body of Christ and individual members of it” (I Cor 12:27). Because I am a member of the body of…

“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you” (Isaiah 66:13) Steve Lawson tells how when he got out of theological college he was preaching through Revelation when Mother’s Day came along. And because he is committed to sequential preaching he preached on the next passage before him, which happened to be about ‘the whore of Babylon’. “I felt good about it! We…