28 October 2018 "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service." ...Romans 12:1   These words take us beyond the mere individual for they imply contribution to a whole. The "presenting" is individual but the service is corporate. T...

October 7 2018 "The men took of their provision, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord." ....Joshua 9:14 Sin before God as a Christian is of two kinds. One is the sin of refusing to obey Him when He issues orders, the other is the sin of going ahead of Him when He has issued no such orders. The first is rebellion, not doing what the Lord h...

August 5 2018 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have n...

July 8 2018 "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." Habakkuk 3:18 When the Galilean boy brought his bread to Jesus, what did Jesus do with it? He broke it. God will always break what is offered to Him, then He blesses and uses it to meet man's need. Is not this true of your experience and mine? You give yourself to ...

June 24 2016 "The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge." ....Psalm 46:11 How very much our own life is like Jacob's history! Until God begins to deal with us, we are inclined to take a superior spiritually proud attitude to Jacob's intrigues, but as we begin to encounter the deviousness of our own thinking and self-will, we soon...