Sermons and Biblical Studies

The average person in the world today, without faith and without God and without hope, is engaged in a desperate personal search throughout his lifetime. He does not really know where he has been. He does not really know what he is doing here and now. He does not know where he is going. The … Continue reading “MAN:
SPIRITUAL SEARCHING; MAN: ALIENATION FROM GOD; PURPOSELESSNESS”

Until we have seen ourselves as God sees us, we are not likely to be much disturbed over conditions around us as long as they do not get so far out of hand as to threaten our comfortable way of life. We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it … Continue reading “MAN:
SINFULNESS OF; AMERICA: SINFULNESS”

Christianity today is man-centered, not God-centered. God is made to wait patiently, even respectfully, on the whims of men. The image of God currently popular is that of a distracted Father, struggling in heartbroken desperation to get people to accept a Saviour of whom they feel no need and in whom they have very little … Continue reading “MAN:
SELF-CENTEREDNESS OF; EVANGELISM: HUMANISTIC APPROACH TO”

Yet so subtle is self that scarcely anyone is conscious of its presence. Because man is born a rebel, he is unaware that he is one. His constant assertion of self, as far as he thinks of it at all, appears to him a perfectly normal thing. He is willing to share himself, sometimes even … Continue reading “MAN:
REBELLION AGAINST GOD; SELF-ASSERTION”

But we have been guilty of that “foul revolt” of which Milton speaks when describing the rebellion of Satan and his hosts. We have broken with God.… The whole work of God in redemption is to undo the tragic effects of that foul revolt, and to bring us back again into right and eternal relationship … Continue reading “MAN:
REBELLION AGAINST GOD; REDEMPTION; SALVATION: SOVEREIGN CALLING”

Compared to Him, everything around us in this world shrinks in stature and significance. It is all a little business compared to Him—little churches with little preachers; little authors and little editors; little singers and little musicians; little deacons and little officials; little educators and little statesmen; little cities and little men and little things! … Continue reading “MAN:
INSIGNIFICANCE OF; GOD: HIS MAJESTY”

With the understanding that God has given us, we have to agree that the physical body is the least essential part of the man. Some scientist has called the body “a concatenation of atoms,” just a group of atoms and molecules that have gotten together for a while. A man is more than likely to … Continue reading “MAN:
INSIGNIFICANCE OF”

Fallen nature is no friend of God. Fallen nature is no friend of God’s grace. The winds that blow through the corridors of this world do not blow heavenward; they blow hellward. The man with no place of stability or anchorage goes the way the wind blows. Job 18:5–15; Psalm 14:1–3; Isaiah 57:20 Echoes from … Continue reading “MAN:
ALIENATION FROM GOD; SIN: CONSEQUENCES OF”

From man’s standpoint the most tragic loss suffered in the Fall was the vacating of this inner sanctum by the Spirit of God. At the far-in hidden center of man’s being is a bush fitted to be the dwelling place of the Triune God. There God planned to rest and glow with moral and spiritual … Continue reading “MAN:
ALIENATION FROM GOD; COMMUNION WITH GOD”

Millions of young people today are wholly unable to think of love except in terms of the disgraceful promiscuity of Hollywood. Newspapers now report the numerous marriages of the movie crowd by number: “It was the third marriage for her; his fourth.” And if it were not so tragic for everyone concerned, it would be … Continue reading “LOVE:
WRONG CONCEPT”