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A Basic Precondition
      "They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)" (v. 9) For reading & meditation: John 20:1-18 The late Bishop John Robinson stated: "The resurrection of the body of Christ is no essential belief for ... read more

A Father's Pleasure
      "And a voice came from heaven: 'You are my Son, whom I love ... ' " (v. 11) For reading & meditation: Mark 1:1-12 We continue with the thought that what makes the Bible unique is its Author. Some years ago a cartoon appeared in a Christ ... read more

A Sacrificial Head
      "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it." (v. 24) For reading & meditation: Luke 9:18-27 Suppose a tiny seed had a will of its own and decided to save itself by refusing to be burie ... read more

An Unintentional Tribute
      "'He saved others,' they said, 'but he can't save himself!' " (v. 42) For reading & meditation: Matthew 27:32-44 What humiliation and shame our Lord endured for us on the cross of Calvary. Cicero, a Roman philosopher, said of crucifi ... read more

At-One-Ment
      "God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood." (v. 25) For reading & meditation: Romans 3:21-31 Herbert Spencer, whom we quoted earlier, wrote: "The task of religion is at-one-ment: atonement. If it fails to ... read more

Attainment or Obtainment?
      "... he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead ..." (v. 18) For reading & meditation: Colossians 1:1-20 Does salvation come up from mankind through striving, helped by the Divine, or does it come down to us from above, thr ... read more

Bankruptcy Confessed
      "... you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ..." (v. 11) For reading & meditation: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 In his book Conversion - Christian and Non-Christian, C. Underwood says that th ... read more

Conversion - a Miracle
      "... in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value." (v. 6) For reading & meditation: Galatians 5:1-15 Permit me to pause in our meditations on the chief differences between the Christian faith and non-Christian re ... read more

Exposed Realism
      "... he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law." (v. 29) For reading & meditation: Matthew 7:13-29 If the men and women of this world took an unbiased look at Jesus as presented to us in the four Gospels, th ... read more

God Came Himself
      "... God ... sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him." (v. 9) For reading & meditation: 1 John 4:7-21 There have been two great attempts to find God throughout the ages," said Dr. E. Stanley Jones, "one, ... read more

God's Great Masterpiece
      "... and the Scripture cannot be broken ..." (v. 35) For reading & meditation: John 10:1-18 I said yesterday that I subscribe to the supervisal inspiration of the Bible. I believe God led the minds and hearts of the writers of Scripture t ... read more

Good Man or God-Man?
      "Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?" (v. 46) For reading & meditation: John 8:31-47 Jesus publicly made the challenge: " Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?" Here we are face to face with a kind of person who had not been seen si ... read more

Greater than the Bible
      "You diligently study the Scriptures. ... These are the Scriptures that testify about me ..." (v. 39) For reading & meditation: John 5:31-47 Jesus claimed to be greater than the Scriptures. Everyone else has to put themselves under the au ... read more

In All the Scriptures!
      "Were not our hearts burning ... while he talked with us ... and opened the Scriptures to us?" (v. 32) For reading & meditation: Luke 24:13-35 The Bible is unique in its varied penmanship. The Scriptures were written over a period of some ... read more

Lord and God
      "Thomas said to him, ' My Lord and my God!' " (v. 28) For reading & meditation: John 20:24-31 Jesus Christ accepted worship as God. What other person in his right mind has ever made such a claim? Earlier Simon Peter had made the confess ... read more

M. A. - Mightily Assured
      "... let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith ..." (v. 22) For reading & meditation: Hebrews 10:19-25 In every religion in the world apart from Christianity there is a note of uncertainty concerning this mat ... read more

No Change - No Conversion
      "Greet ... Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia." (v. 5) For reading & meditation: Romans 16:1-16 A word which the gospel associates with salvation is the word "conversion." Salvation is the offer of div ... read more

No Other Name
      "Salvation is found in no one else ..." (v. 12) For reading & meditation: Acts 4:1-12 We looked yesterday at the statement to the effect that all religions are the same. We must watch out for such statements, for when they are repeated ov ... read more

One Faith, One Lord
      "... contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints." (v. 3) For reading & meditation: Jude 1:1-16 What makes the Christian faith different from every other faith? Prince Charles, who is next in line to the British th ... read more

One Long Search for God
      "For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts ..." (v. 21) For reading & meditation: Mark 7:8-23 We need to be reminded that there is in life a dark and terrible problem - the problem of evil. Herbert Spencer in Natural Law i ... read more

Our Code Is a Character
      "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you ..." (v. 34) For reading & meditation: John 13:1-38 What other teacher has taken the Ten Commandments and had the right to add another commandment to them? But this is preci ... read more

Pluralism's Persuasiveness
      "The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God ..." (v. 20) For reading & meditation: Galatians 2:11-21 The argument presented by pluralists that Christians must view their religion as one among many, and Jesus as only on ... read more

Shadow Boxing
      "The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming - not the realities themselves." (v. 1) For reading & meditation: Hebrews 10:1-18 We talked two days ago of humanity's efforts to try to reach God through philosophy and morali ... read more

That One Solitary Life
      "The men were amazed and asked, 'What kind of man is this?' " (v. 27) For reading & meditation: Matthew 8:18-34 Have you ever wondered why Jesus is never referred to as Jesus the Great? We speak of Alexander the Great, Charles the Great ... read more

The Antechamber of Faith
      "... Jesus said, 'It is finished.' " (v. 30) For reading & meditation: John 19:28-37 The chief difference between other religions and the Christian faith as it relates to the matter of personal salvation is: every other religion teaches ... read more

The Book of Books
      "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever." (v. 8) For reading & meditation: Isaiah 40:1-11 What do we mean when we say that the Bible is "inspired"? There are various views. One is natural inspirat ... read more

The Genius of Christianity
      "... The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." (v. 14) For reading & meditation: Isaiah 7:13-17 Some religions, such as Hinduism, claim that their gods incarnate themselves, but those so-call ... read more

The God Who Seeks
      "Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep." (v. 6) For reading & meditation: Luke 15:1-10 We turn now to look at another aspect of Christianity's uniqueness - the issue of personal salvation. The vocabulary of salvation is distasteful ... read more

The Great Divide
      "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us." (v. 14) For reading & meditation: John 1:1-18 We continue meditating on the fact that the Christian faith is unique in that it is the Word not of a prophet but of the Son of God Hims ... read more

The Last Is the Best
      ... he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things ..." (v. 2) For reading & meditation: Hebrews 1:1-14 The words of our text today point out that though God spoke in times past through prophets and sages (referring t ... read more

The Man of Galilee
      "For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance ... that he was raised on the third day ..." (vv. 3-4) For reading & meditation: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 What other world religion has at its heart such a glorious fact as our L ... read more

The Thrilling Truth
      "... but made himself nothing ... being made in human likeness ..." (v. 7) For reading & meditation: Philippians 2:1-11 We are reflecting on the fact that the Christian faith is not just a little better than other faiths but radically dif ... read more

The True and the False
      " ... our Savior, Christ Jesus ... has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light ..." (v. 10) For reading & meditation: 2 Timothy 1:1-18 Several of the world's religions, when faced with the perplexing issue of Christ ... read more

The Ultimate Discovery
      "... when the centurion ... saw how he died, he said, 'Surely this man was the Son of God!' " (v. 39) For reading & meditation: Mark 15:16-39 I cannot believe that God would write a law of "saving by sacrifice" within our hearts and e ... read more

The Unique Cross
      "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing ..." (v. 18) For reading & meditation: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Another of the chief differences between Christianity and the world's religions, and something which adh ... read more

The Way Begins in a Hole
      "... at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly." (v. 6) For reading & meditation: Romans 5:1-8 Why should the offer of free salvation in Christ be such a stumbling block to the world? Mainly because ... read more

Two Types of Conversion
      "... they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the brothers very glad." (v. 3) For reading & meditation: Acts 15:1-21 Salvation is the word Christians use to describe the experience of sins being forgiven and recei ... read more

Understanding the Cross
      "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (v. 8) For reading & meditation: Romans 5:6-21 An ancient theologian - St. Augustine - suggested that "the answer to the mystery of the ... read more

Vertical vs. Horizontal
      "... God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions ..." (vv. 4-5) For reading & meditation: Ephesians 2:1-10 A Hindu once said in my presence: "A man may change his acts but not his charact ... read more

Who Can Forgive?
      ... the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins ..." (v. 6) For reading & meditation: Matthew 9:1-12 Perhaps one of the most significant ways in which Jesus is unlike anyone else who has ever lived is that He had the ability to f ... read more

Whose Book Is It?
      "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness ..." (v. 16) For reading & meditation: 2 Timothy 3:10-17 The next aspect of Christian uniqueness we consider is the Holy Scriptu ... read more

Without a Rival
      "From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him." (v. 66) For reading & meditation: John 6:60-71 The next aspect of Christian uniqueness we consider is the Person of our Lord Himself. "Christianity is Christ, ... read more

"A God Who Has No Son ..."
      "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son ..." (v. 16) For reading & meditation: John 3:1-17 Yesterday's point about God finding great pleasure in His Son is worth pursuing as so much hangs on it when contrasting the ... read more

"Before All Worlds"
      "Jesus said ... 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"v. 17) For reading & meditation: John 20:10-18 Some non-Christian religions claim that God is the Author of their sacred writings as well as of the B ... read more

"I Have Jesus Christ"
      "But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son . . ." (v. 4) For reading & meditation: Galatians 4:1-8 The Incarnation, we are saying, is one of the chief distinctives of the Christian faith. But there are some within the Church toda ... read more

"I Know I'm Saved"
      "... [Jesus] is able to save completely those who come to God through him ..." (v. 25) For reading & meditation: Hebrews 7:11-28 Is it possible to know without any shadow of doubt that one is saved and ready to meet God? This question, sa ... read more

"Not on Trial"
      "I tell you that one greater than the temple is here." (v. 6) For reading & meditation: Matthew 12:1-14 We continue reflecting on the thought that Jesus Christ is not like anyone else who has ever lived. Take the claim which He made in ou ... read more

"Nothing!"
      "... He appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit ..."(v. 16) For reading & meditation: 1 Timothy 3:1-16 Max Muller, a writer on religious issues, once made this arresting statement: "You do not know the worth of your Christian fa ... read more

"The Key to Life"
      "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ ..." (v. 14) For reading & meditation: Galatians 6:1-18 Whenever I hear a person saying that all religions are the same, my mind runs immediately to the cross. If what is fou ... read more

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