The conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees illustrates that the traditions which they held, presumably based on the Law, were very wide of the mark concerning what God intended them to understand. Jesus deliberately challenged them …
Self-examination is a necessary part of Christian living. It should be practised diligently by all who would be clothed upon with the ” fine linen ” which “is the righteousness of saints.” If it were given more attention by more …
Helpful thoughts, from a mother’s point of view, about the training of our children are selected from an essay entitled, “And his mother’s name was”, a phrase, we are reminded, that frequently occurs in the books of Kings and Chronicles. …
Can you picture the scene: a fine, cool day, with the lightest of breezes, on a heavily-treed suburban recreation ground, with the nearby background of the still winter-green hills? This was the occasion last month at the yearly Sunday school …
Going again to the first verse we notice,”The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him”. We wonder that this word “prophecy” is used to describe the way of living of a good woman. On …
At this stage in the series, perhaps it is worth remembering one simple thing about our children’s spiritual education – the gap between divine wisdom and human wisdom of …
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an help meet for him”.
These words and those which follow in the record in Genesis 2 are unmistakable in their implication: …
Adam, though created alone, was not complete or self-sufficient. He needed company, moral support, a back-stop — call it what you will — and the need was filled with that miracle of surgery, Eve. We are each ‘Adam’ again in …