Classics
Victory in Christ’s Person and His Vocation
A summary/paraphrase of chapter 12, The Saving Life of Christ Jesus is all we need to know about God and man. We look to Him to understand what it means to live in the Promised Land as God intended. For though Christ was fully God in the beginning of the creation of the world, He…
Good News for Sir Ahmed
When Abdul Hamid was deposed, Sir Ahmed, being in the inner councils of the “Young Turk” party, was appointed Vali [governor] of the Province of Van [in Turkey]. At this time the success of our [missionary] schools and hospital was attracting attention. Our treaties with Turkey gave us the right to own property and to…
Victorious Christian Living: A Testimony
Victorious Christian Living By Bertha Smith An edited Transcript of her audio message That old woman [the flesh] hasn’t even paled a little. Let’s cover her up quickly. Just as black as she ever was. And if I could be as old as Methuselah, I wouldn’t be one bit better. Well, if a person’s nature’s…
Epic Exhortations: Excerpts of a Sermon Preached in Moby-Dick
Epic exhortations from Whaleman’s Chapel: Excerpts of a sermon preached in the novel, Moby-Dick Moby-Dick is the famous novel published in 1851 by Herman Melville. The main character and narrator, Ishmael, enlists with a whaling ship, the Pequot, under captain Ahab in pursuit of a huge and vicious sperm whale known as Moby Dick. Before…
Walk in Newness of Life
“As He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy’” (1 Peter 1:15,16). “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so…
Displacing the Old Ways
As a child of fallen Adam you could not be restored to innocence, or brought back in righteousness to God [Rom. 5:12]. Divine justice could only pass upon you the sentence of utter condemnation. If that condemnation had fallen upon you in your own person, you would have been lost forever, but, thank God! it…
Jonathan Edwards’ Personal Testimony
Excerpts from an Autobiography, A PERSONAL NARRATIVE, by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) The first instance that I remember of that sort of inward, sweet delight in God and divine things, that I have lived much in since, was on reading those words, 1 Timothy 1:17, “Now unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God,…
We Can’t, But He Can
In Romans 8:1 Paul tells us, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Our salvation is not based on us but on what Christ has done for us, in us, and through us. Paul says, “There is no condemnation for Christians.” If you’ve given your life to Him, everything…
Raised and Ascended with Christ
“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,…
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ—A New Beginning
“And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence” (Colossians 1: 18) Through the last Adam God has provided another way of union with the human race and in Him He has made a new beginning.…