The Cure for Care

By:  J. R. Miller

There is no life into which do not come many things calculated to cause anxiety and distraction of mind. There are great sorrows; there are perplexities as to duty; there are disappointments and losses; there are annoyances and hindrances; there are chafings and irritations in ordinary life; and there are countless petty cares and frets. All of these tend to break the heart’s peace and to disturb its quiet, yet there is no lesson that is urged more continuously or more earnestly in ...  more

We Must Have Better Christians

By:  A. W. Tozer

To talk of "better" Christians is to use language foreign to many persons. To them all Christians are alike; all have been justified and forgiven and are the children of God, so to make comparisons between them is to suggest division and bigotry and any number of horrible things.

What is forgotten is that a Christian is a born-one, an embodiment of growing life, and as such may be retarded, stunted, undernourished or injured very much as any other organism. Favorable ...  more

The Day of Golden Opportunity

By:  Reuben Archer Torrey (1856-1928)

 

The day of golden opportunity is today. Golden opportunities, opportunities of priceless worth, are open to every one of us today. But "tomorrow" has no sure promise for any one of us. "The Holy Spirit says, Today," and Conscience also cries, "Today," and the voice of Reason and the voice of History and the ...  more

Why We Must Think Rightly About God

By:  A.W. Tozer

O, Lord God Almighty, not the God of the philosophers and the wise but the God of the prophets and apostles; and better than all, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may I express Thee unblamed?

They that know Thee not may call upon Thee as other than Thou art, and so worship not Thee but a creature of their own fancy; therefore enlighten our minds that we may know Thee as Thou art, so that we may perfectly love Thee and worthily praise Thee. In the ...  more

The Word Made Flesh

By:  Robert Murray MCheyne

You remember, brethren, when Philip went down to Samaria, it is said that he preached Christ unto them, and there was great joy in that city (Acts 8:5, 8). You remember that the apostle Paul says, I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified (1 Corinthians 2:2). Now, brethren, it is really the case that the only object in the world that can give peace to your soul is Christ, and him crucified.

Those of you who are not awakened are ...  more

The Prayer of a Minor Prophet

By:  A.W. Tozer

The covenant and prayer of a preacher This is the prayer of a man called to be a witness to the nations. This is what he said to his Lord on the day of his ordination. After the elders and ministers had prayed and laid their hands on him he withdrew to meet his Savior in the secret place and in the silence, farther in than his well-meaning brethren could take him. 

And he said: O Lord, I have heard Thy ...  more

The Canon of Scripture

By:  Anonymous Author

The Bible is not an ordinary book composed by a gifted author in a couple of years. It is not the work of brainstorming saint. Rather, it is God’s Word which He communicated to man over a period of 1600 years. It contains 66 individual books and was written by approximately 40 different human authors. This ancient Jewish book is the ...  more

The Death of Discernment in the Church

By:  Mike Gendron

Have you considered the spiritual health of your church in these days of tolerance and compromise? Is the leadership earnestly contending for the faith against the current wave of ecumenism? A. W. Tozer used the illustration of circulating blood to describe the health of a church. “The red corpuscles are like faith - they carry the life giving oxygen to every part of the body. The white cells are like discernment - they pounce upon dead and toxic matter and carry it out to the ...  more

Why Christian Standards Fall

By:  Ivan Foster

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith. – I Timothy 4:1.

This question has been given to me to answer. Before I do so, perhaps we should consider if the question is legitimate. Are those who claim that standards have fallen correct? We must not mistake change of style for a fall in standards. We are not talking about colors and fashions tonight. When I was a youngster, there ...  more

The Cry for Revival

By:  Robert Murray McCheyne

"Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?" Psalms 85:6

It is interesting to notice the time when this prayer was offered. It was a time of mercy. "Lord thou hast been favorable unto thy land". It was a time when God had led many to the knowledge of Christ, and covered many sins. "thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people." It was now they began to feel their need of another ...  more

The Duty of Searching the Scriptures

By:  George Whitfield (1714-1770)

"Search the Scriptures." - John 5:39

When the Sadducees came to our blessed Lord, and put to him the question, "whose wife that woman should be in the next life, who had seven husbands in this," he told them "they erred, not knowing the scriptures." And if we would know whence all the errors, that have over-spread the church of Christ, first arose, we should find that, in a great measure, they flowed from the same ...  more

The Old Cross and the New

By:  A. W. Tozer

All unannounced and mostly undetected there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental.

From this new cross has sprung a new philosophy of the Christian life, and from that new philosophy has come a new evangelical technique-a new type of meeting and a new kind of preaching. This new evangelism employs the same language as the old, ...  more

Holiness

By:  J.C. Ryle (1816-1900)

"Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." - Hebrews 12:14

The text which heads this page opens up a subject of deep importance. That subject is practical holiness. It suggests a question which demands the attention of all professing Christians-Are we holy? Shall we see the Lord?

That question can never be out of season. The wise man tells us, "There is a time to weep, and ...  more

Self-deception and How to Avoid It

By:  A.W. Tozer

Of all forms of deception, self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

The reason for this is simple. When a man is deceived by another he is deceived against his will. He is contending against an adversary and is temporarily the victim of the other’s guile. Since he expects his foe to take advantage of him he is watchful and quick to suspect trickery. Under such circumstances ...  more

The Kind of Revival We Need

By:  Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is good for us to draw nigh unto God in prayer. Our minds are grieved to see so little attention given to united prayer by many churches.

How can we expect a blessing if we are too idle to ask for it? How can we look for a Pentecost if we never meet with one another, in one place, to wait upon the Lord? Brethren, we shall never see much change for the better in our churches till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

But now that ...  more

Preaching the Word in a Pagan Age

By:  Rick Shrader

William Wordsworth once said, "Language is the incarnation of thought,"¹ which may tell us either why conversation is so scarce these days, or why it is such light fare. But it was Confucius who said, "When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."² That makes the current state of our language very critical. "Anyone wishing to save humanity today must first of all save the word,"³ Jacques ...  more

Is Worship Boring?

By:  Don Whitney

In December 2000, I was asked by a writer of Word and Way (the newspaper of the Missouri Baptist Convention) to contribute to a multi-page, special section on the subject of "Is Church Boring?" My input was requested because in my responsibilities as professor of Spiritual Formation at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary I teach a required class on "Worship Leadership, " and also because I have written on and speak frequently in churches and conferences on the ...  more

The Purity Principle

By:  Randy Alcorn

The Purity Principle is this: Purity is always smart; impurity is always stupid.

Does God really argue for sexual purity on the basis that its the smart choice, while impurity is stupid? Judge for yourself: 

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another mans wife? For a mans ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all his paths. The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast. He will ...  more

Why Join a Church?

By:  Kenneth Kantzer

"Scripture makes abundantly clear that we are to be members of a local church." - Kenneth Kantzer

Despite my seminary training and pastoral experience, I was unprepared for this new Christians question. He agreed from our study of the Scripture that he needed to identify himself as a disciple of Christ through baptism, but then he asked, "Can you show me from the New ...  more

The Agenda of Islam - A War Between Civilizations

By:  Professor Moshe Sharon

Fundamentalism is a word that came from the heart of the Christian religion. It means faith that goes by the word of the Bible. Fundamental Christianity, or going with the Bible, does not mean going around and killing people. There is no fundamental Islam. There is only Islam full stop. The question is how the Koran is interpreted.

All of a sudden we see that the greatest interpreters of Islam are politicians in the western world. They know better than all the speakers in the ...  more

The Power of the Holy Spirit

By:  J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)

There is hope in the Gospel for any man, so long as he lives. There is infinite willingness inChrist to pardon sin. There is infinite power in the Holy Spirit to change hearts.

There are many diseases of the body which are incurable. The cleverest doctors cannot heal them. But, thank God! there are no incurable diseases of soul. All manner and quantity of sins can be washed away by Christ. The hardest and most wicked of hearts can be changed.

Reader, I say again, while ...  more

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"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." - II Timothy 3:16-17