Labor in Vain
“There shall no sign be given to the men of this generation but the sign of the prophet Jonas.” Jesus Christ
God’s Strange Choice
There is no doctrine more truly humbling than the doctrine of election; and it was for this reason that the Apostle Paul refers to it, — that the disciples at Corinth might be quite content to follow the humble and despised cross-bearing Savior, because the election of grace consists of the humble and despised, who therefore cannot be ashamed to follow One who, like themselves, was despised and rejected of men.
Survey of Revelation
The three major movements in this profound unveiling are captured in 1:19: “the things which you have seen” (1); “the things which are” (2 and 3); and “the things which will take place after this” (4-22).
The Lamb: The Light
“And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: For the Glory of God did lighten it, and The Lamb is the Light thereof.” — Revelation xxi. 23
The Scariest Book: Revelation
“Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this”…
The Birth Pangs of the Messiah II
Christ referred to the ‘beginning of sorrows”. The fact He called thoe ‘the beginning of birth pangs’ indicates that more birth pangs would follow them…
The Birth Pangs of the Messiah I
Just as a woman must go through a period of agony before her child is born into the world, so the world will go through birth pangs before the Messianic Age is born into the world.
Of The Imitation of Christ
He is truly wise who accounts all earthly things “but dung, that (he) may win Christ” (Phil. 3:8).
We Have Cause to Be Uneasy, Part 3
From ‘Mere Christianity’, 1943
“…Now my third point. When I chose to get to my real subject in this roundabout way, I was not trying to play any kind of trick on you. I had a different reason. My reason was that Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the [...]
We Have Cause to Be Uneasy, Part 2
We have two bits of evidence about the Somebody. One is the universe He has made.
We Have Cause to Be Uneasy, Part 1
We all want progress, but progress means getting nearer to the places where you want to be.
The Screwtape Letters
…after all, Screwtape knows a great, great deal about men and women and about the ways of the enemy.
The Pilgrim’s Progress
The river has been a terror to many, yea, the thoughts of it also have often frighted me….
