More Jim Elliot No man has enlarged my vision and challenged my faith like the young martyr, Jim Elliot. His diary, like David Brainerd’s, has impacted thousands of lives with its passion to know and please Jesus Christ and his willingness to die to see his glory spread to the ends of the earth. See if his words to not spark a...
Tried and Proven “Even today I live every moment with the Bible. It is my constant companion. As a believer for fifty-six years, I have tested God’s Word and found it true. In more than five decades I have not encountered one situation on which I have not been able to turn to God’s Word for comfort, wisdom, guidance, joy and blessing. At eighty-one years of age, I would rather have the Bible on my shelf and in my heart than...
Shutting the Door of Our Minds A man approached a speaker and said, “You Christians are all brainwashed.” The speaker replied, “I think we are all brainwashed to a degree. The important thing is that we Christians choose what we want to wash our brains with.” INTRODUCTION: G. K. Chesterton observed that an open mind, like an open mouth, does have a purpose: and that it is, to close upon something solid. Otherwise, it could end up like a sewer, rejecting nothing. The...
Life is Hard. God is Good. “By faith the believer triumphs over the world’s enticements: he sees that all that is in the world, suited to gratify the desires of the flesh or the eye, is not only to be avoided as sinful, but as incompatible with his best pleasures.” — John Newton INTRODUCTION: The apostle Paul described his life like this, “sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” (2 Corinthians 6:9-10). In the service of Jesus he never knew when or where the next...
The Man Who Sings One Note Open my eyes that I may see the wonderful things in Your law. Psalm 119:18 “I find him always singing one note.” — Stephen Vaughn on William Tyndale INTRODUCTION: William Tyndale had to flee England. His crime? He was committed to translating the Bible into the English language so that the common people could have the joy of reading God’s Word for themselves. The Catholic Church and the King were set against it. So, he fled to...
Providence and Service “Almighty God, just because He is almighty needs no support. Twentieth-century Christianity has put God on charity. So lofty is our opinion of ourselves that we find it quite easy, if not enjoyable, to believe we are necessary to God.” A.W. Tozer When I was growing up in the church, it was a common thing to hear evangelists and missionaries attempt to motivate us to go to the ends of the earth to complete the Great Commission. I still...
When I was starting out as a young, green pastor, in the providence of God, I discovered the expositions of Ray Stedman. He was a preacher who needed no gimmicks to build one of the most successful churches in America. He built the Peninsula Bible Church of Palto Alto, California, upon solid and consistent exposition of the Word. His down to earth applications were relevant to the issues my young church family faced at that time. Every...
Jim Elliot: From “Shadow of the Almighty” We focus our attention on a man who never wrote a book. He did write a diary and what a powerful testimony it is! No book, other than the Bible, has affected my life than the one entitled, “Shadow of the Almighty.” It is a compilation of the prayers and meditations of the young missionary, Jim Elliot, composed by his wife after his martyrdom, in 1956. His life was short on quantity but long...
Providence and Prayer “Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his mercy; to humble his heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.” Adam Clark The doctrine of providence should give us great confidence. It affirms that God controls everything for the glory of his name and the salvation of his people. Paul said it like this: “In him we were also...
The Clarity of God’s Word “I prayed for faith and thought that some day faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ.’ I had up to this time closed my Bible and prayed for faith. I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.” —...
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