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Gentleness
The text for this meditation is also recorded in 2 Samuel 22:36b. There it is history. In the Psalms it is, as it were, prepared for the chief musician and recorded for an even larger audience. Matthew Henry notes that others may make use of it to thank God for their deliverances. Now ...
The Names of the Mediator (5)
Brightness“Who being theBrightnessof His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our ...
Captivity Led Captive
Ascension preaches unto us that Christ has not only ascended up on high but also that He has led captivity captive.In times past, prisoners were drawn along behind the victory chariot of the winners of the battle. In this manner the heaven-ascended King has bound all ...
Pentecost
Beloved reader, it is indispensable to all of us for salvation that God the Holy Spirit makes His indwelling in our hearts. Precisely, this is the meaning of Pentecost, the feast which we hope to commemorate.The Holy Spirit, the third Person in the adorable, blessed e ...
An Exhortation on the Day of Pentecost
When the apostle Peter, girded with power from on high, spoke to the assembled crowd, he said at the end of his sermon, “Save yourselves from this untoward generation.”It is an incomprehensible miracle that it was precisely Peter who was given to utter this grave warn ...
Prayer Day
May the Lord give us and our children, with the congregations, a deep impression of our dependency upon the Lord, but also of our unworthiness due to the Fall in Paradise, and that, day after day, we have no right to any outward or inward blessings. It has all been sinned away, but sti ...
The Gladdening and Lovely Time of Spring
Here David compares the rule or kingdom of the Messiah, who shall re-establish and restore righteousness and the fear of God, to the gladdening and lovely time of spring, wherein the world, after the dull and gloomy scene of a long winter, begins to open forth its beauties again and to ...
What the Bible Says About the Moon (1)
In recent months the eyes of the world, as never before in the history of the world, have been focused upon the moon. (July 1969 was the first manned landing on the moon. Now again in recent years mankind is seeking to land and set foot on the moon. —Ed.) ...
Evening Twilight (5)
An Old Friend“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Proverbs 17:17).Visiting the elderly in the congregation is one of the many tasks in the ministry. During a visi ...
Questions from Our Readers
Thank you for this question. It nicely suits the set criteria for the Q&A page in The Banner of Truth. Perhaps the few lines that were added in addition to the abovementioned question remind us again that we must not too quickly assume that our children and ...
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