Who Are Your Heroes? Worship the Lord your God, and only him. Serve him with absolute single-heartedness—Matthew 4:10 We men like heroes. We like to look upward. We start early, as boys, looking up to men and women who do amazing things on grass and turf and hardwood and ice. As we get older, we…
With Friends Like These . . . My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ—James 2:1 We men tend toward partiality. Sometimes with forethought, many times with no thought, we give or withhold based upon characteristics of the potential recipients. We can, therefore, find ourselves directing all our…
\”We make a sure covenant, and write it.\” — Neh 9:38. \”He is the Mediator of a better covenant.\” — Heb 8:6. IT IS good for a soul to make a covenant with God. On his twenty-third birthday Milton wrote these memorable words: \”Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall…
\”Bear ye one another\’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.\” — Gal 6:2. IN THESE words the Apostle is evidently thinking more especially of the trespasses and sins into which men and women fall. We are not to rejoice over their failure, nor talk about it to others, but to consider ourselves, remembering…
\”Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.\” — Eph 5:20. \”Let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.\” — Heb 13:15. SOME PEOPLE seem born with a sullen and feverish temper, and it is very difficult for them to brighten into…