In spite of the theories of some anthropologists, it is doubtful whether men left to themselves would arrive at the idea of one source of power, energy and life in the universe. It is almost certain that they would not reach the idea of one source of righteousness, goodness, and love. The tendency o…
On a sailing vessel which narrowly escaped loss with all hands on a voyage to America in 1832 there was a young medical man, John Thomas. Faced with death and taking stock of his religious beliefs, he realized how slender they were. He vowed that if his life was spared he would not rest till he had …
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All the problems of life and all the truths of revelation are brought to a focus in Christ. His life and death show in a living example the working out of problems which baffle human judgment and defy human intellect. One instance of this is in the reconciling of man’s freewill and God’s foreord…
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“GOD, our Saviour”, or more literally, “our Saviour God”, is strictly an expression found only in Paul’s first letter to Timothy and the letter to Titus – although Mary speaks in her hymn of “God my Saviour” (Luke 1:47), and Jude addresses the doxology which ends his epistle to “th…
Better wages, better housing, more education, more baths and cleanliness; less need, less squalor – would not these produce better men and women? Progress in science, advance in knowledge and control of man’s environment, more systemized knowledge of himself – would not these lead on to a sane…
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In the temptation in the wilderness Jesus deliberately put the way of man from him and chose the way of God, which meant the way to the cross. Hints in the story of the earlier ministry show that from then onwards the Cross was before his eyes. How could it fail to be when the Voice at his baptism w…
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