Resting your imagination on God

The original version of My Utmost for His Highest daily thoughts reads… Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee. Isaiah 26:3 (RV margin). The updated version has… You will keep him in perfect peace,

Thy prayer was heard – Abraham, my Friend – Part 06

Chapter One: Beginnings unsatisfied hungers The story of Abraham’s family begins with a little list of sons and daughters which comes to an abrupt stop; “but Sarai was barren she had no child”. Perhaps it’s something to do with the

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God is able In the ‘National Gallery of the Heroes of Faith,’ there is just one portrait that appears twice — Abraham. Hebrews 11 twice focuses on this extraordinary man as a God-given illustration of faith. First, the writer tells

If we say we have no sin… Part 3

Getting Real There is one more element we need to add to complete the ‘context’ of 1 John. Four hundred years before Christ a Greek philosopher had taught ideas of form and reality. Plato used a famous illustration to make

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When Lot left, Jehovah said… I hope we are not going too slowly for you. It has taken us three months to cover two chapters; however, I see this is assisting our goal rather than hindering it. One of the

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Famine in the land. ‘And there was a famine in the land’ (Gen 12:10 ASV). It’s one thing to progress when everything is going well, but what happens when the trials come? And come they will. Often they come in

Donald Rumsfeld and the Return of Christ

Preparing for Series Three in our Romans Project I am in the lead-in to our third season of Bible studies in Paul’s epistle to the Romans. We have completed Series One – Introduction and ‘Guilty’ Series Two – ‘From Death

Planet Narnia: Michael Ward ****

Michael Ward is an Anglican minister who has caused a lot of excitement among his fellow academics and others by his claim to have ‘found the key’ to C S Lewis’ fiction writings. The books he has in mind are

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A nose jewel and two bracelets We are watching the unfolding of events pertaining to the father’s son; Isaac. If we continue with our analogy of The Father, Son and Holy Executive we see interesting patterns in this account. We

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They that wait upon the Lord And then after the sitting, running, lying, and working comes the standing — the posture of a servant, you will recall from our last devotional.  As we read Genesis 18 slowly we get a definite