Who Is Your Example?The Christian churches of our day have suffered a great loss in rejecting the example of good men, choosing instead the “celebrity of the hour” for their pattern.
True GreatnessWhat is true greatness? The great man is the one who stoops to become a slave for others.
Is there any glory for God in it?Before engaging in any activity, we should be able to bow our head and ask the Lord to glorify Himself in what we are about to do. If God cannot be honored by it, then we should refrain from doing it.
Serving one another in loveSomeone has said, “Self thinks itself great and is served. Love serves and is great.”
The richest man in the valleyUnrighteous mammon here refers to earthly riches or material treasures. No illusion is more prevalent than that the man who has a lot of material possessions is rich.
Giving to the LordIt is breathtaking to think that a gift given to a servant of the Lord should be memorialized with language similar to that which describes the Unspeakable Gift...
The suffering lambI once saw a lamb die. It was a most moving, most awful sight.
The powerful Word of GodA Christian university student was witnessing to another student who was from a liberal seminary. When the believer quoted a verse, the seminarian said, “I don’t believe the Bible.” The Christian quoted another verse, only to be met with “I told you I don’t believe the Bible.
Pray until you pray.Especially if you haven’t spent much time in prayer yet, it’s easy to fall into a pattern of praying ritualistically and without depth.
But to truly enter the spirit of prayer, we have to linger for a while.
Hints for your prayer lifeTwo are better than one. That’s why I encourage you to find at least one steady prayer partner and arrange to meet regularly for prayer.
