A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. Always a living Person is present, speaking, pleading, loving, working, and manifesting Himself whenever and wherever His people have the receptivity necessary to receive the manifestation.1 —— He can invade the human heart and make room … Continue reading “PERSONALITY”
OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM
The cross-carrying Christian… is both a confirmed pessimist and an optimist the like of which is to be found nowhere else on earth.1 —— Strange as it may be, the holiest souls who have ever lived have earned the reputation for being pessimistic.2 —— No, the unknown saints are not pessimists, nor are they misanthropes … Continue reading “OPTIMISM
AND PESSIMISM”
OLD AND NEW
Nothing that matters is new.1 —— Nothing is new that matters and nothing that matters can be modernized.2 —— Nothing new can save my soul; neither can saving grace be modernized. We must each come as Abel came, by atoning blood and faith demonstrated in repentance. No new way has been discovered. The old way … Continue reading “OLD
AND NEW”
NEW BIRTH
A Christian is what he is not by ecclesiastical manipulation but by the new birth. He is a Christian because of a Spirit which dwells in him.1 —— … men do not become Christians by associating with church people, nor by religious contact, nor by religious education; they become Christians only by an invasion of … Continue reading “NEW
BIRTH”
MOTIVE
The man of God set his heart to exalt God above all; God accepted his intention as fact and acted accordingly. Not perfection, but holy intention made the difference.1 —— The “layman” need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein … Continue reading “MOTIVE”
MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY
It is God Almighty who puts eternity in a man’s breast and tomorrow in a man’s heart and gives His people immortality, so what you see down here really is not much. But when the bird of immortality takes to the wing, she sails on and on, over the horizon and out into the everlasting … Continue reading “MORTALITY
AND IMMORTALITY”
LOSTNESS
The man who dies out of Christ is said to be lost, and hardly a word in the English tongue expresses his condition with greater accuracy. He has squandered a rare fortune and at the last he stands for a fleeting moment and looks around, a moral fool, a wastrel who has lost in one … Continue reading “LOSTNESS”
INFINITUDE
To attribute size to God is to make Him subject to degrees, which He can never be, seeing that the very idea of degree relates to created things only. That which is infinite cannot be greater or less, larger or smaller, and God is infinite. God simply is without qualification.1 —— Infinitude can belong to … Continue reading “INFINITUDE”
GIFTS AND GIVING
There is a place in the religious experience where we love God for Himself alone, with never a thought of His benefits.1 —— Among the gifts of the Spirit scarcely any one is of greater practical usefulness than the gift of discernment. This gift should be highly valued and frankly sought as being almost indispensable … Continue reading “GIFTS
AND GIVING”
FUNDAMENTALISM
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the Liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among Conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught.1 —— It was religion that put Christ on the cross, religion without … Continue reading “FUNDAMENTALISM”