The Beauty of the Lord

“Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us!” This is a wonderful and blessed thought for the present moments of our temporal lives. Psalm 90 contains eternal blessings for the temporal lives in which we live, move, and have our being. We yearn to be satisfied early with God’s mercy so that…

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How to Be a Merciful Person

Faith in the living God should make us tender and merciful to others. Too often, however, our faith can devolve into caustic legalism and critical judgmentalism toward those with whom we disagree. How can we maintain a merciful heart toward our neighbors all around us? Jesus challenges us in Matthew 9:13: “Go and learn what…

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Book Review: Daily Devotionals by Stewart Custer

Stewart Custer, well-known professor at Bob Jones University and pastor at Trinity Bible Church, was the most prolific Bible faculty author at BJU, producing small booklets, commentaries, Bible study helps, a Greek synonym study, and his beautiful color book on the Holy Land, with pictures he took himself on his many tours of the region.…

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The Seeking Shepherd

Charles Melring FrontLine • November/December 2006 10 What man of you. having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.…

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The Song of a Faithful Man

Chris Kundert Not far from my childhood home of Onekama, Michigan is a lonely, snow covered road which quietly passes by a dilapidated old farmhouse. The house looked as if it was at any moment willing to give itself over to the constant urging of gravity. Anyone driving by could only assume the derelict is…

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Life for Evermore

Brendon Johnson When John addressed to the churches the record of his prophecy, he was very careful to emphasize that the words he wrote were not his own. Apostle though he was, his message could not depend on his authority alone; it had to be sent under the name of him from whom it came.…

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The Garrison of Peace

Devotional comments on the fourth chapter of Philippians A. T. Robertson Peace is one of the greatest of blessings. The peace that Christ gives is better than any “king’s peace” of the feudal times. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you” (John…

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