Wednesday, July 30, 2025

He's Everything to me

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In the stars His handiwork I see, On the wind He speaks with majesty, Though He ruleth over land and sea, What is that to me? I will cel...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

So, what does it mean?

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Thus, “righteousness” does not mean moral perfection. It is not a distant, forbidding characteristic of God that humans are supposed to try ...

Stop it! Just stop it!

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God did not change his mind about us on account of the cross or on any other account. He did not need to have his mind changed. He was never...

Tozer for Tuesday

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If your Christianity depends upon the pastor’s preaching, then you are a long way from being where you should be. If you do not have a priva...

I Know Whom I Have Believed

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631 I Know Whom I Have Believed 1. I know not why God’s wondrous grace    To me He hath made known,    Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love   ...
Monday, July 28, 2025

As it happened: the KJV vs. the Geneva Bible in North America

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As the American settlements widened and deepened, and their political processes matured, the need for a separatist gospel ebbed. The relatio...

Really, we are all guilty…

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Allowing the law-court imagery to predominate places us in the realm of legal standards — right and wrong, guilt and innocence. This immedia...

There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today

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630 There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today 1 There is sunshine in my soul today,    More glorious and bright    Than glows in any earthly sky, ...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

He Touched Me

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628 He Touched Me 1 Shackled by a heavy burden,    'Neath a load of guilt and shame—    Then the hand of Jesus touched me,    And now I...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus

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621 Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus 1. O soul, are you weary and troubled?    No light in the darkness you see?    There’s light for a look at th...
Friday, July 25, 2025

But I don't like it that way!

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If every possible system of merit has been swept away by Christ and buried with him in his death (Rom. 6:4), then we have nothing of our own...

Whom do we want as judge?

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So in the end it comes down to who we want our judge to be. We don’t want to be judged by other people, and we don’t want to be judged by Go...

I Will Sing the Wondrous Story

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618 I Will Sing the Wondrous Story 1 I will sing the wondrous story    Of the Christ who died for me.    How He left His home in glory    F...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

The antiquity of the word "judgmental"

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Perhaps we need some perspective on the matter, for this is a very recent development. The 1971 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary do...

We are all complicit

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When I was a young activist in Virginia in the ’60s, my comrades and I loved the fierce passages from the Hebrew prophets. We envisioned them...

A Prayer

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610 Prayer Give us A pure heart That we may see Thee, A humble heart That we may hear Thee, A heart of love That we may serve Thee...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Ransom

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A passage in Isaiah [60:15–19] depicts God as the redeemer who brings precious gifts to reclaim Israel for his own. It certainly sounds like...

Setting things right

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If the ransom saying of Mark 10:45 is allowed full rein as a fluid, suggestive metaphor, rather than a rigidly schematic transaction, we are ...

Jesus Will Walk with Me

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609 Jesus Will Walk with Me 1. Jesus will walk with me down thru the valley,    Jesus will walk with me over the plain;    When in the shad...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Deliverance by purchase

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And so the New Testament proclamation of redemption in and by Jesus Christ carries forward two major Old Testament themes. Redemption contin...