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America’s Child Sacrifice
In Psalm 106 the psalmist praises God for his provision, confesses Israel’s unfaithfulness, and prays for mercy. The bulk of the psalm relates God’s work on behalf of Israel and the nation’s subsequent “forgetting” of God. Note verses 37-38— They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons, and shed innocent blood, the Read more
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Is Meditation Practical?
Ask Joshua that! God gave Joshua the leadership reins of Israel and commanded him to take them into Canaan and conquer the land. Do you remember what God told Joshua what was essential for success? Meditation on God’s Word (Joshua 1:8). Imagine all the things Joshua had to take care of and think about! As Read more
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Meditation
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success (Joshua 1:8). When you hear Read more
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God’s Holiness and Self-Righteousness
If any man think well of himself, he has never met God. Nothing will demolish self-righteousness like one real sight of God. –R. A. Torrey, What the Bible Teaches, p. 41 Read more
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Sin in the Light of God’s Holiness
“All approach to God is on the ground of shed blood. The atonement has its deepest demand in the holiness of God. Any doctrine of the atonement that sees its need only in the necessity that man be influenced by a mighty motive, or in the necessities of governmental expediency, does not go to the Read more
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God’s Gracious Salvation
The following account gives a great illustration of how a few Christians surrounded by great wickedness used what they had–regular assembly of the saints, prayer, and ministry of the Word–and saw God act in a might way. It is a great encouragement. I have additional comments and items for prayer after it: Shelter Island, Read more
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