Sermons and Biblical Studies

Just what part evil literature has played in this present moral breakdown throughout our land will never be known till men are called forth to answer to a holy God for their unholy deeds. For thousands of young people, the first doubt about God and the Bible came with the reading of some evil book. … Continue reading “BOOKS:
EVIL; READING: DANGERS OF”

History will show that bad books have ruined not only individuals but whole nations as well. What the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau did to France is too well-known to need further mention here. Again, it would not be difficult to establish a cause and effect relationship between the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the … Continue reading “BOOKS:
EVIL; FALSE TEACHING; READING: DANGERS OF”

Elijah had gone far beyond philosophy and its uncertainties. He had found God! It was not a religious theory that Elijah had found. He had found the very key to life and eternity. God the Creator made us for Himself. Our hearts and beings will never be satisfied until we find our satisfaction in God … Continue reading “BOLDNESS;
SATISFACTION”

Why don’t we have the courage that belongs to our sound Christian faith? I cannot understand all of this ignoble apologizing and the whipped-dog attitude of so many professing Christians!… But many Christians spend a lot of time and energy in making excuses, because they have never broken through into a real offensive for God … Continue reading “BOLDNESS;
COURAGE; DEFENSIVENESS”

We stand in desperate need of a few men like Elijah who will dare to face up to the brazen sinners who dictate our every way of life. Sin in the full proportions of a revolution or a plague has all but destroyed our civilization while church people have played like children in the marketplace. … Continue reading “BOLDNESS;
AMERICA: SINFULNESS”

I feel that we evangelicals are making two serious mistakes. One is insisting upon union where it should not be, and the other is creating divisions artificially where there is no justification for them. One blessed fact to be kept ever in mind is the organic unity of all true believers in Christ. However ill … Continue reading “BODY
OF CHRIST; UNITY”

Here in the New Testament was Philip the Calculator—Philip the Mathematician, Philip the Clerk. There was need for a miracle, and Philip set out to calculate the odds. Probably every Christian group has at least one person with a calculator. I have sat on boards for many years, and rarely is there a board without … Continue reading “BOARDS:
LACK OF VISION; FAITH: CONFIDENCE IN GOD; CHURCH: FINANCES”

Bernard of Clairvaux speaks somewhere of a “perfume compounded of the remembered benefits of God.” Such fragrance is too rare. Every follower of Christ should be redolent of such perfume; for have we not all received more from God’s kindness than our imagination could have conceived before we knew Him and discovered for ourselves how … Continue reading “BLESSINGS:
REMEMBRANCE OF”

Biography may be either a help or a hindrance, depending upon how we interpret and apply it. The biographer usually accents the high, stirring moments in the life of his subject and of necessity passes over the days and years when nothing out of the ordinary happened. Yet without the thousands of common days there … Continue reading “BIOGRAPHY:
INTERPRETATION OF”

“Leave the warts in,” said Lincoln when about to sit for his portrait, and to the everlasting credit of the artist he had the courage to do it.… George Washington has the misfortune to be respected by everybody and loved by nobody. Parson Weems saw to that. He wrote a life of Washington that fixed … Continue reading “BIOGRAPHY:
HUMANNESS IN”