Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • MORNING & EVENING

    In the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. — Philippians 2:15 We use lights to make manifest. A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. His conversation should be such…

  • I LOVED YOU, I LOVE YOU NOW

    Connect The TestamentsHosea 11:1–12:14; Acts 5:1–42; Job 16:10–22 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son” (Hos 11:1). This line is beautiful if read alone, but it is sad when read in context: “When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals,…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar. — Psalm 120:5 As a Christian you have to live in the midst of an ungodly world, and it is of little use for you to cry “Woe is me.” Jesus did not pray that you should be taken…

  • UTOPIAN TRUTH FOR TODAY

    Connect The TestamentsHosea 8:1–10:15; Acts 4:1–37; Job 16:1–9 Wealth often tempts us to materialism, as our possessions make us feel secure, valued, and comfortable. But sometimes the lack of these assets allows this temptation to exert even more power over us, driving us to spend our lives chasing the higher salary, the bigger house, or…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    I will; be thou clean. — Mark 1:41 Primeval darkness heard the Almighty fiat, “light be,” and straightway light was, and the word of the Lord Jesus is equal in majesty to that ancient word of power. Redemption like Creation has its word of might. Jesus speaks and it is done. Leprosy yielded to no…

  • THE DISCOMFORT OF SCRIPTURE

    Connect The TestamentsHosea 6:1–7:16; Acts 2:42–3:26; Job 15:21–35 Most of the Western world operates in the spirit of individualism. Christianity does not, though we often attempt to adapt it and make it more comfortable. It’s much easier to think about “God’s role in my life” than to reflect on “my role in God’s plan” to…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Thou whom my soul loveth. — Song of Solomon 1:7 It is well to be able, without any “if” or “but,” to say of the Lord Jesus—“Thou whom my soul loveth.” Many can only say of Jesus that they hope they love him; they trust they love him; but only a poor and shallow experience…

  • ONLY THE VERY BEGINNING

    Connect The TestamentsHosea 3:1–5:15; Acts 2:1–41; Job 15:10–20 Beginnings are exciting. The freshness of a new project or a new relationship sharpens our senses. When that novelty diminishes, though, it’s difficult to maintain the same level of excitement. Acts 2 is all about beginnings. In this passage we get an inside view of how God…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. — Mark 1:30 Very interesting is this little peep into the house of the Apostolic Fisherman. We see at once that household joys and cares are no hindrance to the full exercise of ministry, nay, that since they furnish…

  • AN UNUSUAL PORTRAIT

    Connect The TestamentsHosea 1:1–2:23; Acts 1:1–26; Job 15:1–9 “At the beginning when Yahweh spoke through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, ‘Go, take for yourself a wife and children of whoredom, because the land commits great whoredom forsaking Yahweh.’ So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son”…