Testimonies

“It is not until a beautiful kernel of corn is buried and broken in the earth by death that its inner heart sprouts, producing hundreds of other seeds or kernels. And so it has always been, down through the history of plants, people and all of spiritual life. God uses broken things. ” —THOMAS TOKE…

Devotional insights on John 4:1-26 . Well, let us go back to the woman at the well. We see how Jesus provokes her to recognize that she needs this water, this well. So when He speaks about this water, she decides to throw away all of her difficulties about His being of a different race,…

The Better Covenant “… ‘Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah … For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My…

My salvation As a newly reborn young NASA physicist, at age 22, my life changed dramatically. I moved from the party apartments where I lived, and made friends with very different values and priorities. Within a few months my focus had so changed that I decided to leave my job at NASA in Houston and…

Now let us turn our attention to three biblical principles that point the way to fulfillment. 1. Realize that it is impossible for any person or human relationship to bring total fulfillment. God alone can fill that “God-shaped vacuum” in the heart. The first two of the Ten Commandments rule out any alternate “god” and…

“I can do all things,” I have resources for all circumstances, ” in Him that strengtheneth me” (Phil 4:13). ” If any man will come, willeth to to come, after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me” (Luke 9:23). Continued… 3. “And let him take up his cross…

“For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in…

When the deacon humbly took a place beside Bill [see part 1], he was embracing an often-missed aspect of the cross: (1) Jesus died on the cross as the substitute for our sins… and we [as believers] are freely forgiven. (2) But equally as important, we died with Him on the cross… and we can…

“Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh” (Galatians 3:3). The Galatian Christians, like so many people today, trusted Christ for their initial salvation, but depended upon the flesh for spiritual maturity. When the word “flesh” occurs in the New Testament, most of the time it…

In his autobiography, a well-known TV personality describes the time when he asked, “If God the Father is so all-loving, why didn’t He come down and go to Calvary?” His comment reveals that he really did not understand much about our Father. WHY GOD INTERVENED JOHN STOTT DESCRIBES … At the end of time, millions…