Sermons and Biblical Studies

In this hour of all-but-universal darkness one cheering gleam appears: within the fold of conservative Christianity there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself. They are eager for spiritual realities and will not be put off with words, nor will they be … Continue reading “LONGING
FOR GOD; REVIVAL: HOPEFUL SIGNS OF”

Current evangelicalism has … laid the altar and divided the sacrifice into parts, but now seems satisfied to count the stones and rearrange the pieces with never a care that there is not a sign of fire upon the top of lofty Carmel. But God be thanked that there are a few who care. They … Continue reading “LONGING
FOR GOD; PREACHING: WATERED DOWN”

Theological knowledge is knowledge about God. While this is indispensable it is not sufficient. It bears the same relation to man’s spiritual need as a well does to the need of his physical body. It is not the rock-lined pit for which the dusty traveler longs, but the sweet, cool water that flows up from … Continue reading “LONGING
FOR GOD; KNOWLEDGE OF GOD: PERSONAL, INTIMATE”

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I … Continue reading “LONGING
FOR GOD; KNOWLEDGE OF GOD: CONTINUOUS PURSUIT; PRAYERS”

Except in rare and isolated instances current Christianity is not producing godliness. And where an example of true saintliness appears occasionally it will be found to be a throwback to another and more serious type of religion than that to which people have “returned” in such numbers today. My own observation has taught me that … Continue reading “LONGING
FOR GOD; GODLINESS”

There are two great evils apparent among us today. The two are related in that both spring from callous, apathetic human attitudes. The first is the prevailing spirit of impenitence. The second is the total willingness to exist day after day without any longing for God. If we yearned after God even as much as … Continue reading “LONGING
FOR GOD; COMPLACENCY”

I trust I speak in charity, but the lack in our pulpits is real. Milton’s terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: “The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.” It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God’s children starving while … Continue reading “LONGING
FOR GOD; CHURCH: SPIRITUAL CONDITION; PREACHING: WATERED DOWN”

Most of the world’s great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness.… The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful “adjustment” to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim … Continue reading “LONELINESS;
WORLD: CONTENTMENT WITH; PILGRIMS”

The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his … Continue reading “LONELINESS;
SPIRITUAL DEPTH”

This is the reason that it is easily possible for a Christian believer to be the loneliest person in the world under a set of certain circumstances. This sense of not belonging is a part of our Christian heritage. That sense of belonging in another world and not belonging to this one steals into the … Continue reading “LONELINESS;
HEAVEN: LONGING FOR”