Sermons and Biblical Studies

There must be expectation. We’ve got to point up our prayers. I have said it before and repeat it, that one of the greatest snares in praying is to pray vaguely. I used to go out rifle shooting in the state of Pennsylvania. I still like to when I get out that way. I used … Continue reading “PRAYER:
EXPECTATION”

When we go to God with a request that He modify the existing situation for us, that is, that He answer prayer, there are two conditions that we must meet: (1) We must pray in the will of God and (2) we must be on what old-fashioned Christians often call “praying ground”; that is, we … Continue reading “PRAYER:
CONDITIONS”

When entering the prayer chamber, we must come filled with faith and armed with courage. Nowhere else in the whole field of religious thought and activity is courage so necessary as in prayer. The successful prayer must be one without condition. We must believe that God is love and that, being love, He cannot harm … Continue reading “PRAYER:
BOLDNESS IN”

Pragmatism has a number of facets and can mean various things to various people, but basically it is the doctrine of the utility of truth. For the pragmatist there are no absolutes; nothing is absolutely good or absolutely true. Truth and morality float on a sea of human experience. If an exhausted swimmer can lay … Continue reading “PRAGMATISM;
CHURCH: CURRENT CONDITION”

What does all this add up to? What are its practical implications for us today? Just that the power of God is at our disposal, waiting for us to call it into action by meeting the conditions which are plainly laid down. God is ready to send down floods of blessing upon us as we … Continue reading “POWER
OF GOD; OBEDIENCE: NEED FOR; SPIRITUAL VICTORY”

Anyone can do the possible; add a bit of courage and zeal and some may do the phenomenal; only Christians are obliged to do the impossible. 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Ephesians 3:20–21; Philippians 4:13 The Warfare of the Spirit, 12.

Emerson once said to a young man with political aspirations: “Young man, you want to be president? You want to go to the White House? Ah, if you only knew how much of his manhood that man had to sell out to get there, you wouldn’t want it. If you only knew how he must … Continue reading “POWER:
HIGH PRICE OF”

The widest thing in the universe is not space; it the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world’s worst tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them … Continue reading “POTENTIAL;
MAN: SELF-CENTEREDNESS OF”

The human heart is heretical by nature. Popular religious beliefs should be checked carefully against the Word of God, for they are almost certain to be wrong. Ecclesiastes 9:3; Jeremiah 17:9; Mark 7:21–22 That Incredible Christian, 117.

Even the so-called diplomats and statesmen have little knowledge and even less control over the day-to-day incidents that bring tension and violence among the nations. The story has been told of one of our own State Department officials saying to another as they arrived at the Washington offices in the morning. “Well, what is our … Continue reading “POLITICS;
PREDICTIONS”