Author: Administrador

The world’s spirit is strong, and it clings to us as close as the smell of smoke to our garments. It can change its face to suit any circumstance and so deceive many a simple Christian whose senses are not exercised to discern good and evil. It can play at religion with every appearance of … Continue reading “WORLD:
CONTEMPT FOR CHRISTIANS”

In the early days, when Christianity exercised a dominant influence over American thinking, men conceived the world to be a battleground. Our fathers believed in sin and the devil and hell as constituting one force; and they believed in God and righteousness and heaven as the other. These were opposed to each other in the … Continue reading “WORLD:
CONTENTMENT WITH”

One of the problems most frequently encountered by serious-minded Christians is how to discover the will of God in a given situation.… First, it is absolutely essential that we be completely dedicated to God’s high honor and surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. God will not lead us except for His own glory and … Continue reading “WILL
OF GOD; CHOICES; LORDSHIP OF CHRIST”

At the risk of repeating a religious cliche, I must point out that the will of God is always best, whatever the circumstances. Jesus refused the crown and deliberately took the cross because the cross was in the will of God, both for Him and for humankind. Let us not be afraid to take that … Continue reading “WILL
OF GOD; CROSS: PERSONAL”

Few sights are more depressing than that of a professed Christian defending his or her supposed rights and bitterly resisting any attempt to violate them. Such a Christian has never accepted the way of the cross.… The only cure for this sort of thing is to die to self and rise with Christ into newness … Continue reading “WILL
OF GOD; OPPOSITION; SELF-DENIAL”

Many of us are forgetting the caution of the Lord Jesus that we ought not to set our hearts on earthly things. He warned that there is a very real danger involved and He said plenty about it in the New Testament. Jesus said that when wealth becomes our heart’s treasure, our very beings may … Continue reading “WEALTH;
MATERIALISM; EARTHLY THINGS”

Probably the most irritating problem faced by today’s western Christians is where to find parking for their shiny automobiles that transported them effortlessly to the house of God, where they hope to prepare their souls for the world to come. In the United States and Canada the middle class today possesses more earthly goods and … Continue reading “WEALTH;
SECOND COMING: LACK OF INTEREST IN; HEAVEN: LACK OF INTEREST IN”

That religion lies in the will is an axiom of theology. Not how we feel but what we will determines our spiritual direction. An old poem states it for us: One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow; ’Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which … Continue reading “WILL:
IMPORTANCE OF; COMMITMENT”

God had planned a great task and a vital ministry for Isaiah. But as a young man involved in the court life of a successful king, he seemed satisfied with this world and with things as they were. We can say that Isaiah’s attention was too strongly focused on King Uzziah. How was the Lord … Continue reading “VISION
OF GOD”

The Bible has a great deal to say about wealth. Our Lord dealt with the matter forthrightly, as did also Paul and others of the New Testament writers. What they said is on record and is deserving of a more careful study than most Christians give it.… Knowing the tendency of the human heart to … Continue reading “WEALTH;
EARTHLY THINGS”