Bible Verses: John 20:19-30Matthew 28:192 Corinthians 13:14John 1:1-14John 8:58John 10:30John 17:5
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: John 1:1-14
We ended yesterday by saying that the first step toward mental and spiritual health is self-renunciation and receptivity. I must be willing to acknowledge my need of Christ, stop striving to find happiness and instead receive Him into my life then, like the disciples we talked about the other day, I have reached the shore...
Bible Verses: John 1:1-14Matthew 13:1-23Acts 17:111 Thessalonians 2:13
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: John 1:1-18
We continue meditating on the fact that the Christian faith is unique in that it is the Word not of a prophet but of the Son of God Himself. And when I refer to the Son of God I mean also God the Son. The Son is as much God as God Himself. One commentator says of the verse before us today: "If I were to put my finger on...
Bible Verses: John 1:1-18Isaiah 9:1-6Isaiah 7:14Galatians 4:4Luke 1:30-33
Read MoreHe was in the world. It was incredible grace that the Lord of life and glory would ever come to live on this tiny planet. It would not be newsworthy to say of anyone else, "He was in the world." That is something over which man has no control. But for Him, it was a deliberate choice, an act of wonderful compassion.
and the world was made by Him. The wonder increases! The One who was in the world is the One who made the world. He who...
Bible Verses: John 1:10-12
Read MoreBible Verses: Matthew 27:33-50Galatians 2:20Luke 23:34John 1:11John 10:15-18
Read MoreThe first three Gospels begin on the earth ; the fourth Gospel begins back in eternity. There are no sublimer words in all language than the first words in John's prologue. They give us a glimpse of the eternal past and show us the Word existing then. In the beginning, before anything else was - He was. Genesis...
Bible Verses: John 1:1-18
Read More"But a time is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me."
The loneliness of Jesus while in this world was one of the most pathetic elements of His experience. There are two kinds of loneliness.
One is, when a person is away from all human presences. A man who had been shipwrecked and...
Bible Verses: John 16:32John 1:10-11Matthew 8:20Luke 9:58John 7:53John 8:1
Read MoreHe came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. § The Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith.Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be...
Bible Verses: Luke 18:8John 1:111 Timothy 4:12 Timothy 4:2Mark 13:32Mark 13:33Luke 12:37Titus 2:13
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For Reading and Meditation: John 20:19-30
Dr. W. E. Sangster tells the story of following three children out of church. One remarked to the others: "I can't understand all this 'Three in One and One in Three' business." "I can't either," said another child, "but I think of it like this: my mother is Mummy to me, she is Mabel to Daddy, and Mrs. Douglas to lots...