“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
Thanksgiving or complaining — these words express two contrastive attitudes of the souls of God’s children in regard to His dealings with them; and […]
What we have said about Christ as our mind leads us straight into chapter three of the Letter to the Philippians. Chapter three is the continuation of what is in chapter two. We recognize the convenience of chapter divisions, but […]
The note in chapter two of the Philippian Letter is the Cross making Christ’s mind ours — Christ our mind.
“…make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind.” (verse 2).
“Have this mind in you, […]
What is suffering? Suffering is what I don’t like. That’s all. It may be spirit suffering, soul-emotional suffering or body suffering. I don’t like it because it presses me to find the remedy. That’s the secret! It presses me to […]
Ancient mythology recognized some union of God with man, but it was a union which only degraded the gods and did not lift mankind. It still left a great gulf between the earthly and the heavenly.
It is this Paul […]
“And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine” (Luke 15:31).
The words of the text are familiar to us all. The elder son had complained and said, that though his […]
Most Bible students never think that there is any difference between believers in the New Testament. In fact in my day most teaching has been to move believers to be exactly like the believers in the early Church. It is […]
What would it be like if Paul’s phrase, “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” were a daily reality in our lives? Is it even possible? Is there anything we can do to make it happen?
There’s nothing we can […]
All the dealings of God with the soul of the believer are in order to bring him into oneness with Himself, that the prayer of our Lord may be fulfilled: “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art […]
For the first half of my ministry I did not know my English Bible as I should.
The effect was seen both in my spiritual life and in the character of my preaching.
My heart was greatly burdened in prayer […]