Let a flood or a fire hit a populous countryside and no able-bodied citizen feels that he has any right to rest till he has done all he can to save as many as he can. While death stalks farmhouse and village no one dares relax; this is the accepted code by which we live. The critical emergency for some…
Every time God thinks about you, He thinks about you lovingly. Even if He must chastise you, or allow hardships to come to you, it is love that allows it to come and love that sends it. And we never should be afraid of love, because love casts out fear. We talk about love, but God proved His love. “But…
All that some people know about Christianity is that it won’t let you do things. A man once told Spurgeon, “I don’t drink, I don’t use tobacco, I don’t swear, I don’t attend theater.” Spurgeon replied, “Do you eat hay?” He said, “No, I don’t. What do you mean?” And Spurgeon said, “I hoped you did something. Up to now…
I’ve just been reading again the early chapters of Genesis and there’s no escaping the fact that God felt pleasure in His creation. God made the light, shook His head and said, “That’s good!” He liked that! Then He made the dry land to appear and put the seas in one place, and said, “That’s good!” Then He made the…
Moody made another trip to Britain in 1872, during which he was introduced to “dispensational truth” and met evangelist Henry Varley. It was Varley who said to Moody (and this seems to be the accurate version): “Moody, the world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and…
Some men have wives that are wildcats—difficult to get along with—and they think they are tempted above all others. John Wesley was married to a wildcat, and she didn’t even have her claws trimmed. But God got John Wesley through all right. He used to kneel down and pray in Latin so his wife wouldn’t be able to know what…
