As you got up this morning, I watched you, and hoped you would talk to me, even if it was just a few words, asking my opinion or thanking me for something good that happened in your life yesterday. But I noticed you were too [...]

Among others, there is at least one verse (I Cor. 1:18) in which Paul explains how the Cross had become a regulating force in his life and ministry. But we shall miss the full meaning of this verse unless we discover the meaning of one [...]

This is the ministry which God in his mercy has given us and nothing can daunt us. We use no hocus-pocus, no clever tricks, no dishonest manipulation of the Word of God. We speak the plain truth and so commend ourselves to every man's conscience [...]

"Our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin" (Romans 6:6). Many a Christian thinks that to be thoroughly orthodox he must believe that not only every [...]

It is quite significant that our Lord's first encounter with those who were to be His disciples seems to describe the nature of their future calling and ministry. When Jesus first met Peter and Andrew they were casting a net into the sea. When He [...]

Some persons say they cannot bear to spend one hour in quiet solitude; they have nothing to do, nothing to think about. No Christian will ever talk like that, surely; for if I can but give him one word to think of -- Christ -- [...]

All the dealings of God with the soul of the believer are in order to bring it into oneness with Himself, that the prayer of our Lord may be fulfilled: "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in [...]

We humans exist that we may be the means by which He expresses Himself. Humanity itself exists to express Deity. In order to get that into focus, I had to go through stages of destruction, making room for construction. In order to get that into [...]