The Son of God ministered before mankind as a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief (Isa 53:3). “I am in trouble” said the psalmist portraying the spirit of Christ in its stark reality, “mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and…
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On the day of Pentecost, the apostle Peter stood up and preached the truth concerning the risen Christ. He pointed to a vacant sepulchre and boldly affirmed that its very emptiness, rather than being a sign of abject failure, was in fact perfectly in accord with the purpose of God. To demonstrat…
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The daily readings for 6 January bring together the beautiful sequence of Psalms 14, 15 and 16. This series of David’s psalms, though each is complete in itself, has an instructive flow of thought. In Psalm 14 we have set before us the inherent evil of all mankind. Psalm 15 answers the inevitable …
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