Christmas is anything but restful. In fact, Christmas is the busiest time of year for many of us. There is shopping to do, family to visit, cookies to bake, turkeys to roast, gifts to wrap, church services to attend, trees to put up, lights to hang...
Mary gets a lot of attention during the Christmas season. Interestingly enough, Mary is hardly a main character in the life and ministry of Jesus. Of all the times she’s mentioned in the Bible (which aren’t that many), she’s mentioned most during...
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year (Grand Rapids, MI: Oswald Chambers Publications; Marshall Pickering, 1986). The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense...
Christianity Today (Caleb Lindgren) published this article September 28, 2106. Just wanted to share.
Here are some of the highlights:
IT IS good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well...
By: Stacey Ayars I have been incredibly discouraged these past few weeks, watching politics and responses from afar as an American in a foreign land. But the greatest source of my discouragement doesn’t have anything to do with politics. It has...
Part of Christ’s priestly role is to tend the lampstands. The OT priest would trim the lamps, remove the wick and old oil, refill the lamps with fresh oil, and relight those that had gone out. Likewise, Christ tends the ecclesial lampstands by...
The people murmured against Moses. (Ex 15:23; 16:2; 17:3) When we face serious problems, and we know deep inside ourselves that we cannot solve those problems, it causes us to doubt that God himself can solve those problems. We tend to project self...
God wants to accomplish the impossible in our lives. He wants to do things that are unexplainable and beyond our imagination. This is an exciting reality, however, it means that we must have unsurmountable obstacle in our lives for this to happen...
Spiritual disciplines play a central role in the life of the Christian. The practice of spiritual disciplines is the place where rubber meets the road when it comes to the actual transformation of the believer as the result of faith. It is through...