Author: Administrador

Certain poets have found a morbid pleasure in the law of impermanence and have sung in a minor key the song of perpetual change. Omar the tentmaker was one who sang with pathos and humor of mutation and mortality, the twin diseases that afflict mankind. “Don’t slap that clay around so roughly,” he exhorts the … Continue reading “DEATH:
ENEMY”

There is nothing heroic about our passing, leaving families and friends, but then, death is never heroic and it is never kind. Death is never artistic, always much more likely to be crude and messy and humiliating. The preacher who once stood with strength and keenness to preach the living Word of God to dying … Continue reading “DEATH:
ENEMY; DEATH: TRIUMPH IN; HEAVEN: CERTAINTY OF”

If you have any spiritual perception at all, I need not state that in our generation and in every community, large or small, there are churches existing merely as monuments of what they used to be. The glory has departed. The witness of God and of salvation and of eternal life is now just an … Continue reading “DEAD
CHURCHES; REVIVAL: NEED FOR”

My own mother-in-law had a baby that died and she went through fire and water and blood and tears and toil, but through it she came to a wonderful spiritual experience. She had to sit up in bed, weak and weary as she was, and make the baby’s coffin. Her husband made it out of … Continue reading “DEATH:
BABY’S”

In history there is the account of a famous political prisoner standing before his judge. Asked if he had anything to say before sentence was pronounced, the man said “No.” The judge intoned, “I therefore pronounce that on a certain day you be hanged by the neck until death. I sentence you to die.” It … Continue reading “DEATH:
CERTAINTY OF”

… I confess a sadness about the shallowness of Christian thinking in our day. Many are interested in religion as a kind of toy. If we could make a judgment, it would appear that numbers of men and women go to church without any genuine desire to gear into deity. They do not come to … Continue reading “CURRENT
CONDITIONS: SHALLOWNESS; CHURCH: APATHY”

Why do the majority of present day Christians prefer shallow religious fiction? Or uninspired Bible talks that never get beyond the “first principles”?… First, present day evangelical Christianity is not producing saints. The whole concept of religious experience has shifted from the transcendental to the utilitarian. God is valued as being useful and Christ appreciated … Continue reading “CURRENT
CONDITIONS: SHALLOWNESS; SPIRITUAL DEPTH”

He said that we are to leave the first principles, that is, the elementary instructions of the Christian faith. We are to leave them, but not leave them behind. We are not to leave them as one would leave one house and go to another or leave one city and go to another. We are … Continue reading “CURRENT
CONDITIONS: SHALLOWNESS; SPIRITUAL GROWTH”

That is the difference between Christianity and all the Oriental cults and religions. All cult religions try to wake up what you already have, and Christianity says, “What you have is not enough—you will need the enduement which is sent from above!” That is the difference. The others say, “Stir up the thing that is … Continue reading “CULTS;
HUMAN POTENTIAL; HOLY SPIRIT: NEED FOR”

Suppose there were an elixir of life that could cure any disease anyone could have, and it was sold down at the corner, and you could buy it for a nickel a bottle. It was the magic elixir of life that would make anybody healthy. Then suppose that I found an old fellow sitting on … Continue reading “CURRENT
CONDITIONS: APATHY; CONFESSION”