Trust in Yahweh with all your heart . . .

  • Matthew Henry Monday

    From his Method for Prayer… I thank you for the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him; James 1:12 (ESV) the inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for me. 1 Peter 1:4 (ESV) That having here no lasting city, Hebrews 13:14 (ESV) I am encouraged to seek the better country, that is, the… Read more

  • One More On the Meek

    This ‘kingdom characteristic’ of meekness is the clue to so much that God does in our lives, yet we too rarely recognise it. He wants us to be meek. But first he may have to break our pride, destroy our sense of self-sufficiency and humble us under his mighty hand before he uses us for… Read more

  • More On the Meek

    Let us for a few moments consider this idea of the Christian hope and the significance the apostle ascribes to it for the practice of religion. In the first place, we notice that the hope of which the text speaks is not a general sort of hopefulness, it’s the expectation of future blessedness in an… Read more

  • The Meek

    It is not uncommon for commentators and Bible teachers to interpret the “blesseds” in the Beatitudes as meaning “to be happy.” The Greek work translated as “blessed” is makarios, and while “happy” is one of the ways it can be interpreted, in the broader context of the Beatitudes, happy seems to miss the mark. For one… Read more

  • One More On Those Who Mourn

    HARDNESS of heart is a great and grievous evil. It exists not only in the outside world, but in many who frequent the courts of the Lord’s house. Beneath the robes of religion many carry a heart of stone. It is more than possible to come to baptism and the sacred supper, to come constantly… Read more