Author: Administrador

Perhaps a word of warning would not be amiss here: It is that we beware the common habit of putting confidence in books, as such. It takes a determined effort of the mind to break free from the error of making books and teachers ends in themselves. The worst thing a book can do for … Continue reading “BOOKS:
VALUE OF; READING: LIMITATIONS OF”

We stand in desperate need of a few men like Elijah who will dare to face up to the brazen sinners who dictate our every way of life. Sin in the full proportions of a revolution or a plague has all but destroyed our civilization while church people have played like children in the marketplace. … Continue reading “BOLDNESS;
AMERICA: SINFULNESS”

Why don’t we have the courage that belongs to our sound Christian faith? I cannot understand all of this ignoble apologizing and the whipped-dog attitude of so many professing Christians!… But many Christians spend a lot of time and energy in making excuses, because they have never broken through into a real offensive for God … Continue reading “BOLDNESS;
COURAGE; DEFENSIVENESS”

Elijah had gone far beyond philosophy and its uncertainties. He had found God! It was not a religious theory that Elijah had found. He had found the very key to life and eternity. God the Creator made us for Himself. Our hearts and beings will never be satisfied until we find our satisfaction in God … Continue reading “BOLDNESS;
SATISFACTION”

History will show that bad books have ruined not only individuals but whole nations as well. What the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau did to France is too well-known to need further mention here. Again, it would not be difficult to establish a cause and effect relationship between the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the … Continue reading “BOOKS:
EVIL; FALSE TEACHING; READING: DANGERS OF”

Bernard of Clairvaux speaks somewhere of a “perfume compounded of the remembered benefits of God.” Such fragrance is too rare. Every follower of Christ should be redolent of such perfume; for have we not all received more from God’s kindness than our imagination could have conceived before we knew Him and discovered for ourselves how … Continue reading “BLESSINGS:
REMEMBRANCE OF”

Here in the New Testament was Philip the Calculator—Philip the Mathematician, Philip the Clerk. There was need for a miracle, and Philip set out to calculate the odds. Probably every Christian group has at least one person with a calculator. I have sat on boards for many years, and rarely is there a board without … Continue reading “BOARDS:
LACK OF VISION; FAITH: CONFIDENCE IN GOD; CHURCH: FINANCES”

I feel that we evangelicals are making two serious mistakes. One is insisting upon union where it should not be, and the other is creating divisions artificially where there is no justification for them. One blessed fact to be kept ever in mind is the organic unity of all true believers in Christ. However ill … Continue reading “BODY
OF CHRIST; UNITY”

Next to the Holy Scriptures the greatest aid to the life of faith may be Christian biography. It is indeed notable that a large part of the Bible itself is given over to the life and labors of prophets, patriarchs and kings—who they were, what they did and said, how they prayed and toiled and … Continue reading “BIOGRAPHY:
BIBLICAL”

“Leave the warts in,” said Lincoln when about to sit for his portrait, and to the everlasting credit of the artist he had the courage to do it.… George Washington has the misfortune to be respected by everybody and loved by nobody. Parson Weems saw to that. He wrote a life of Washington that fixed … Continue reading “BIOGRAPHY:
HUMANNESS IN”