Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God’s grace. 2 Corinthians 1:12 (NIV) Nathaniel Hawthorne addressed ministerial hypocrisy both …
Taken in the thousands by Nebuchadnezzar to live in exile in Babylon, the people of God found themselves very far from home. It was for these people that God gave the prophet Jeremiah a message, clear and remarkably specific, and communicated in a letter: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the …
Cultivating Grace: Notes from a County Antrim Garden Read More »
What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half dozen books – Gustave Flaubert So little read; so much to read. Of blurbing many books there is no end, and selling your last shirt for yet another “must-read” Christian paperback is a weariness of the flesh. I read a lot. It’s …
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Renowned as the founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM),[1] Hudson Taylor’s burden was for the millions in China who had not heard the gospel. His life’s work was to mobilize men and resources to reach these unevangelized regions for Christ. Yet as he labored in that harvest field and made frequent return trips to England …
We Must Consider the Poor!—Hudson Taylor (1832 – 1905) Read More »
Each fall since 1863, the sitting US president has issued a proclamation declaring a national day of Thanksgiving. Though perhaps viewed by some as merely a pro forma holiday ritual, these proclamations evidence the rich American tradition of government leaders’ officially invoking God’s guidance and care. Without violating the First Amendment’s prohibition of establishing an …
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought …