March 9
Henry Morris and Martin Clark write: “…many of the principles of modern science were recorded as facts of nature in the Bible long before science confirmed them experimentally. A sampling of these would include the roundness of the earth (Isa 40:22), the almost infinite extent of the sidereal universe (Isa 55:9), the law of conservation of mass and energy (2 Pet 3:7), the hydrologic cycle (Eccl 1:7), the vast number of stars (Jer 33:22), the equivalence of matter and energy (Heb 1:3), the law of increasing entropy (Ps 102:25-27), the paramount importance of blood in life processes (Lev...
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“Above all, taking the shield of faith” (Eph 6:16). Often this shield is molded in the fires of testing. Andrew Stenhouse writes: “The landlord called for his money the first day of the month. Our mail came by sea. One had just come and brought us no mail, the next due in two weeks. The first of the month came, but the landlord did not. A week passed; then the second. The ship arrived, but our box was as empty as two weeks before! The day following, we went again, and there in the box was an Air Mail letter, the first we ever received. It contained a check for the amount needed. The brother...
Read MoreMarch 7
A King who dies for His subjects; a Judge who is the Savior of all. Aristocrats who were mere slaves (Rom 6:20); judges who were sheer criminals (1 Cor 6:2-3); faithful who were once out-and-out rebels. A law which is complete freedom (Rom 8:2); a freedom which is wholly bound (Rom 6:18). All in the kingdom were former enemies (Rom 5:10); all rulers are at the same time servants (Rev 1:6). Each born twice, earthly and heavenly (Jn 3:3), yet many never die (1 Cor 15:51). All brought out of death into life (Jn 5:24). Defeated, yet conquerors; heroes who glory in their weakness (2 Cor 6:9-10;...
Read MoreMarch 6
H.A. Ironside writes: Recently, while presenting the gospel on the streets in California, I was often interrupted like this: “Look here, sir. There are hundreds of religions in this country, and the followers of each think theirs the only right one. How can plain men like us find out what really is the truth?” “Hundreds of religions, you say? That’s strange; I’ve heard of only two.” “But you surely know there are more than that!” “No, sir. There are just two. The one covers all who expect salvation by doing; the other, all who have been saved by something done. So you see the whole question...
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The word “Agnosticism” was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 although the concept of pleading ignorance in spiritual matters has been around since antiquity. This is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims—particularly claims regarding God and the afterlife—is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism, inherently unknowable. Philosophers and thinkers who have written about agnosticism include T.H. Huxley, Robert Ingersoll, and Bertrand Russell. But whatever these adherents are, they can’t claim ignorance: they do know a great deal. They claim to know more...
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