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16/05/2025

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31/10/2024

During fifty years of ministry I prayed for hundreds of patients in hospitals. Today was the first time a doctor asked if he could pray for me. My radiologist, a very sharp and kind man prayed a prayer befitting a mature believer. It was truly moving. Thank you Lord for graciously letting this man be a part of our team.

16/10/2024

In praise of Psalm 119

I have focused my devotions upon Psalm 119 for several years. I take one stanza, eight verses, each morning, and state it from memory, meditate upon its truth, apply it to my own life, and then journal it so that I won’t forget what the Lord was saying to me in that text upon that day. I am now engaged with the project of putting what I have been learning from this awesome psalm into a book.

I love David for he knew God personally. He writes in God’s presence. Over 200 times he says “you” or “your.” In other words, he is listening to God through the law and speaking to God through prayer. Therefore, Psalm 119 is not just a document. It is a record of a living relationship between David and his God.

Down though history, great men having memorized all 176 verse of this psalm. John Ruskin (19th century British writer), William Wilberforce (19th century British politician who led the movement to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire), Henry Martyn (19th century pioneer missionary to India), and David Livingstone (19th century pioneer missionary to Africa). I read somewhere where that America’s greatest theologian and philosopher, Jonathon Edwards, memorized the psalm at the age of six!

So, I challenge all of my students in Malawi to do the same. I attended a church pastored by one of our students who took up the challenge. After every service, they would not rush off, but would sit down and listen to how each member had progressed in their memorization. The day I visited this church, one lady stood up and recited all of Psalm 119 in Chichewa! The significance of this is that Chichewa has very long words. We sat there close to 45 minutes as she shared that precious Word with us.

I will not and cannot describe all of the precious and powerful, principles and promises I have discovered in this glorious pursuit. But, one thing it has done. It has given me a great love for God’s Word and a gold mine of precious truth to carry me safely through some of life’s greatest battles.

Matthew Henry – the great 18th century Bible commentator – was introduced to Psalm 119 as a child. His father, Philip Henry, told his children to take one verse of Psalm 119 every morning to meditate on, and thereby go through the entire psalm twice in the year. Philip said to his children, “That will bring you to be in love with all the rest of the Scriptures.” Perhaps that practice was why Matthew Henry loved the Bible so much that he wrote commentary that is used still today. It sure has had that effect upon me!

I invite you to enter into this wonderful trek. When we search the Scriptures, we are seeking for God. “I have sought your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.” (119: 58) It is there he reveals himself to us and speaks truth that sets our hearts free to “run in the paths of His commands.” (Psalm 119:32) I want to run with him. I want to please him with my life. I can affirm with David, “If your law had not been my delight I would have perished in affliction;” (Psalm 119:92) and, “Great peace have they who love you law and nothing can make them stumble.” (Psalm 119:165)

Psalm 119 is a gold mine of divine, life changing, God-honoring, soul-satisfying treasure. I invite you to join me in this wonderful adventure. It is one experience that will radically change your life and fill you with Christ-glorifying joy!

27/09/2024

Here is great counsel for this day when so many of our most revered and popular preachers are falling into adultery: “You will never have s*x with a woman who is not your wife if you are never alone with a woman who is not your wife.”

22/09/2024

Some thing cute and a chance to brag on my babe. Last Sunday we sat next to a first timer in Sunday School. After Barb introduced herself, she said, “You are beautiful!” Yes she is.

Then, last Monday I had to take Barbara to emergency. She was there for two days running tests. But when she was taken to a room in emergency, a nurse came in to make some tests. She said, “Let’s make sure we know who you are.” Looking at the computer and seeing the date of her birth, she said, “Oh no! This must be wrong. This must be wrong! You look too good.” Coming over to the side of the bed she added: “Do you never go out in the sun?”

That is my Babe. Beautiful inside and out.

Most blessed husband. 58 years of sweet friendship.

13/09/2024

Thanks Mom

“Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love that we might be glad and rejoice in you all the days of our lives.” (Psalm 90:14) Words cannot fully express the joy I have in the morning as I open the Book. There my Creator and Savior waits to speak to me again, revealing who he is, reminding of who I am, and pointing me to another day surrounded by his grace and glory.

I have camped out for the last 10 years in Psalms, especially 119. David knows God. He writes in His presence. A man of the world with all of his flaws, but also a man whose heart is hard after God, like mine. (1 Samuel 13:14) One of the first passages my mother taught me was Psalm 119:105. “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” For 81 years, that verse has described God’s gracious working in my life. He has opened doors and shut doors. Dragged me from places I loved to places I loved even more. He has guided me with his counsel. (Psalm 73:24) Walked with me through the darkest of nights. (Psalm 23:4) And though it all has shown me his ways, taught me his paths and guided me into his truth. He is God my Savior and my hope all day long. (Psalm 25:2-3)

As I leave my holy space, I go into the new day with confidence and expectation. My life is not at the mercy of chance or circumstance. My steps are firm and ordered by God. (Psalm 37:23-24) The number of my days are fixed in His book. (Psalm 139:16) I move out with strong hope, knowing that as I go, his unfailing love rests upon me. (Psalm 33:22) I go so thankful for the light and the lamp that has God has given me through His Word in His Book. Thanks Mom.

12/09/2024

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11/09/2024

In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning." John 1:1-2"

"Before the Word of God was a document- before it was anything- it was a Person. Though now it is a document, the Bible, it is still a Person and always will be. That is eternally changeless." J. R. Taylor. The Word of God with Power

10/09/2024

A theologian once commented: The question every preacher faces is not "How does one do it?," but "How can one do it?" To speak God's words in his presence should cause every preacher to be gripped with fear and trembling. What an awesome privilege! Then, to know, that any life changing effect will only happen when the Holy Spirit, who One first inspired God's Word, is present to illumine the minds and hearts of those listen, should destroy all hints of arrogance on the part of the preacher.

09/09/2024

It does not follow that we are less certain about the reality of God and his promises when we hear him in the text of Scripture rather than in dreams and visions. The Spirit, God Himself, makes the written words of God come alive in us in such a dynamic way that the Scriptures become Christ speaking to us personally and powerfully in his presence.

09/09/2024

“Wherever we encounter the speech acts of Scripture, we encounter God himself in action. The Father presents himself to us as a God who makes and keeps his covenant promises. The Son comes to us as the Word of God, knowable to us through his words. The Spirit ministers these words to us, illuminating our minds and hearts, so that in receiving, understanding and trusting them, we receive, know and trust God himself."
Timothy Ward- Words of Life