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[“To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which[a] is Christ in you, the hope of glory” Col. 1:27 NKJV] It is very wonderful. Yes; the heavens, even the heavens of heavens, with all their light and glory, alone seem worthy of Jesus…

[To the apostle Paul] we owe, under the Spirit of God, the unveiling of two great mysteries, which specially touch us as Gentiles. The first of these… that Gentile [believers now] stand on the same level as Jews with respect to the privileges of the gospel: fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and…

Grace: the empowering presence of Jesus Christ, enabling me to be who He has called me to be, and to do what He has called me to do There it was again. First a puzzled look, then the dawning of hope-infused wonder gently overcoming the stubborn despair that had been etched into her countenance by…

This book [Search for Identity] contains some of the lessons learned through the day-to-day experiences in the mental hospital at which I am a chaplain. Rich treasures of wisdom and knowledge have been given to us through the lives of people with emotional illness, through the body of psychiatric knowledge, and above all, through the…

Fifty-two years ago I knelt before a chair with a letter spread out before me — a letter from a mission board secretary, asking me to go to India. I knew that the answering of that letter might determine my life work. So I prayed: “Dear Lord, I’m willing to go anywhere, do anything, and…

The Threefold Enemy Now let us consider these great enemies which present their triple challenge and protest to the life of victory. They are threefold: the world (1 John 2:16), the flesh (Rom. 8:3), and the devil (1 Pet. 5:8). 1) The World What is “the world” in this sense? It means “this present evil…

Is constant victory really possible for every believer? This is a vitally important question for you and me, my brother or sister in Christ. Should a Christian expect and experience constant triumph, every day and all day, over sin and self? Is the “victorious life” really practical..? …Is it some great ideal to which we…

I stood looking at a shallow dish of water in which some kernels of corn were breaking and sending forth green shoots. In that moment something I had been trying to express came into mind so vividly. It was just as though the Lord were saying: “It is not nature’s design for kernels to remain…

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when…

“And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake.…