(Click here to search for all the posts in this series…)Heb.12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. Let us think of our intelligent plain man mentioned in chapter six coming for the first time to the reading of the Scriptures. He approaches...
(Click here to search for all the posts in this series…)John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. An intelligent plain man, untaught in the truths of Christianity, coming upon this text, would likely conclude that...
(Click here to search for all the posts in this series…)Ps. 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? In all Christian teaching certain basic truths are found, hidden at times, and rather assumed than asserted, but...
(Click here to search for all the posts in this series…)Ps. 34:8 O taste and see. It was Canon Holmes, of India, who more than twenty-five years ago called attention to the inferential character of the average man’s faith in God. To most people God is an...
(Click here to search for all the posts in this series…)Heb. 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better know than Augustine’s `Thou hast formed...