I. INTRODUCTION By the phrase “the signs of the times” we mean signs which indicate the coming of our Lord. These signs occur throughout the history of the New Dispensation. They occur in nature, in the nations and in the church. They will occur up until the Lord Jesus returns again to condemn the world […]
By faith we have seen that what is basic to loving ourselves is knowing ourselves. And part of the basics to knowing ourselves is knowing the difference between what we know for certain and what we do not. I say by faith and in certain conviction that God is Creator and I am a creature. […]
Before you or I can love someone in giving our opinions to him or her, we must know what the Bible means by the commandment: thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. This love for the neighbor flows, of course, from our love for God which love for God has, of course, as its […]
The greatest opinion we can make is made in the company of another. And that companion is LOVE. My conviction in these next articles, therefore, is that I Corinthians 13 applies to our opinion-making. Faith, hope, and the greatest of these, charity, that is, love, abide. So these all including love must abide in all […]
In a sermon once our minister included as part of his text Proverbs 9:10. We read there that “the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” Our minister noted that it is evident in this passage that knowledge, understanding, and wisdom are closely related. And […]
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. For a dream cometh through the multitude of words. Ecclesiastes 5:2, 3. Guard Thou my thoughts, I Thee implore, And of […]
So very often when I read the Bible I do not study it. Oh, I look up from the words once in a while or reread them so that I might think about them a little more —but so very often I run stuck. And it is easy for my mind to wander. My mind […]