Author: Administrador

The human heart lives by its sympathies and affections. In the day that will try every man’s works how much we know will not come in for much consideration. What and whom we have loved will be about all that matters then. For this reason we can never give too great care to the condition … Continue reading “AFFECTIONS;
SATISFACTION”

Plato has somewhere said that in a democratic society the price wise men pay for neglecting politics is to be ruled by unwise men.… In America, for instance, there are millions of plain men and women, decent, honest and peace loving, who take their blessings for granted and make no effort to assure the continuance … Continue reading “AMERICA:
LIBERTY; CURRENT ISSUES: LOSS OF FREEDOM”

It is more than probable that in the whole history of the United States there was never at any one time so much religious activity as there is today. And it is also very likely that there was never less true spirituality. For some reason, religious activity and godliness do not always go together. To … Continue reading “ACTIVITY:
RELIGIOUS; SERMON ON THE MOUNT”

Much religious work is being done these days that is not owned by our Lord and will not be accepted or rewarded in that great day. Superior human gifts are being mistaken for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and neither they who exercise these gifts nor the Christian public before whom they are exercised … Continue reading “ACTIVITY:
RELIGIOUS; SERVICE: MOTIVES FOR”

It is possible to have motion without progress, and this describes much of the activity among Christians today. It is simply lost motion. In God there is motion, but never wasted motion; He always works toward a predetermined end. Being made in His image, we are by nature constituted so that we are justifying our … Continue reading “ACTIVITY:
RELIGIOUS; SPIRITUAL GOALS”

Today the Christian emphasis falls heavily on the “active” life. People are more concerned with earth than with heaven; they would rather “do something” than to commune with God. The average Christian feels a lot nearer to this world than to the world above. The current vogue favors “Christian action.” The favorite brand of Christianity … Continue reading “ACTIVITY:
RELIGIOUS; BUSYNESS”

There is all around us, however, a very evident and continuing substitute for worship. I speak of the compelling temptation among Christian believers to be constantly engaged, during every waking hour, in religious activity. We cannot deny that it is definitely a churchly idea of service. Many of our sermons and much of our contemporary … Continue reading “ACTIVITY:
RELIGIOUS; BUSYNESS; WORSHIP: MEANINGLESS”

“The accent in the Church today,” says Leonard Ravenhill, the English evangelist, “is not on devotion, but on commotion.” Religious extroversion has been carried to such an extreme in evangelical circles that hardly anyone has the desire, to say nothing of the courage, to question the soundness of it. Externalism has taken over. God now … Continue reading “ACTIVITY:
RELIGIOUS; EXTERNALISM; CURRENT CONDITIONS: SHALLOWNESS”

I find myself indignant concerning much preaching and teaching which portrays the Christ as a soft and pliant friend of everybody, a painted, plastic figure without any spine and involved in no way with justice.… Every one of us is going to be finally accountable to the One who gave us being. We are accountable … Continue reading “ACCOUNTABILITY;
AMERICA: GREATNESS”

I think we are the busiest bunch of eager beavers ever seen in the religious world. The idea seems to be that if we are not running in a circle, breathing down the back of our own neck, we are not pleasing God!… I heard a Christian leader warn recently that we are suffering from … Continue reading “ACTIVITY:
MORATORIUM ON; BUSYNESS; CHURCH: ACTIVITIES”