It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table, and say, “This is the Word of God. In it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God’s mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and […]

“A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.” Richard Baxter The text we are studying in Jude 21 says, “waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.” The idea of waiting on the Lord is found repeatedly in Scripture (Phil. 3:20; 1 Thess. 1:10; 2 Tim. 4:8; Heb. 9:28), and in each […]

“The person who never meditates with delight on the glory of Christ in the Scriptures now will not have any real desire to see that glory in heaven. What sort of faith and love do people have who find time to think about many other things but make no time for meditating on this glorious subject?” John Owen When Jan and I were a young married couple in our early twenties, I enjoyed riding a motorcycle.  I got along wonderfully with my dear mother-in-law, but she was concerned about me being injured or killed, and without question, motorcycles are more […]

“Our only hope is to return to the God of the Scriptures and the truth that the center of all meaning in life is not ourselves but God. God is the center of the universe and the essence of all wisdom and all truth. The purpose of life derives from God’s desire to see His own glory and behold His own beauty. Thus it is time for Christians to be called back to the truth that the meaning of life is to be found in ‘the glory of God alone.’” John Hannah Wishing you a blessed Independence Day! America the […]