Purpose of Church Discipline
C. H. Mackintosh, in his Notes on the Pentateuch, discusses church discipline in his commentary on Numbers 5:3 - "that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof...
Keeping Our Spiritual Balance
If grass were blue, how would we know up from down? The answer: equilibrium. Our equilibrium helps us keep balance, know up from down, and have a feel for our location or position. Without it, we...
The Bane of Blains
Blains are mentioned in the King James Bible only two times; both times in the passage describing the...
People Disappointments are the Worst
The famous English missionary C. T. Studd saw himself quickly growing frail while he ministered in the heart of Africa. According to a biography of him, he wrote the following words to his mother...
Tabernacle, Tent, and Covering
Exodus 35:11, in reference to the tabernacle, mentions the "tabernacle, his tent, and his covering." Though the terms are used in various ways...
Don't Stop, Sir, Don't Stop
Missionary C. T. Studd went with some others to an African village where hundreds of villages had come to hear them. One of the missionaries had spoken so long that he apologized. The voice of an old man spoke out...
Lessons From Creation
"Those things that we tread under our feet, if used by us according to the full design of their creation, would afford...
Round About the Throne
In Revelation 5:8-9, after the Lamb has taken the book that could not be opened by any other, the four beasts and twenty-four elders fall down before Him and...
But For the Grace of God
"The emphasis put on the nobility of man is largely a matter of fiction. Men and women are men and women, and it is absurd to...
If and When, the Devil's Conjunctions
J. O. Fraser served as an early 20th century missionary to Southwest China. He was in training there and wrote the following words when...