Thoughts

The Bible is full of paradoxes, that is, truths that seem contrary to what we would normally suppose or truths that seem to contradict one another.

Commandments? In the New Testament? Whenever people hear the word commandments, they immediately think legalism.

In a world like ours, with conditions being what they are, what should a serious-minded man or woman do? 

To take Jesus Christ into your life without reservation is to accept His friends as your friends. And to know that His enemies will be your enemies!

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. 

What is true greatness? The great man is the one who stoops to become a slave for others.

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.

Someone has said, “Self thinks itself great and is served. Love serves and is great.”

The challenge to the missionary does not come from the fact that people are difficult to bring to salvation, that backsliders are difficult to reclaim, or that there is a barrier of callous indifference ...

Every disciple of Jesus is a learner! We’re to learn from our Master every day and become more and more like Him in the process. This is exactly what the Lord called His disciples to do, saying: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart”