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On the night of Matthew 14:24, wind descended with such fury that experienced fishermen-apostles, after nine hours of *ponos* (toiling), had advanced merely three miles against it.
To apprehend God's loving-kindness means to duly perceive it, believe it with persuasion, esteem it above all treasures, and consider it with serious remembrance.
An able minister requires two foundational elements: natural endowments and spiritual qualities.
The devil seizes every advantage, working relentlessly through these vulnerabilities.
Because all members share identical stakes in eternity.
Exell's Victorian exposition illuminates two critical spiritual failures.
The authority of their testimony rested on four unmistakable foundations.
Our Lord exhorts His disciples to cultivate strength of character—but never at the expense of brotherly love.
Trusting in riches is spiritually unsatisfactory and necessarily evanescent.
Consider any discipline of human knowledge: a man who disbelieves the principles of astronomy or geology yet pretends to teach these sciences will find his teaching rendered useless by his own heartlessness.
The human mind naturally divides into two warring camps.
The apostle Paul, when dissuading from impurity, eschewed mere physical or social arguments.
Consider the comparison: A thief who forcibly enters a strong man's house, binds him, and seizes his weapons must possess greater strength than the householder.
Yet this appeal reveals something profound: the preacher refers always back to Christ as the source of all authority and influence.
A great many cannot afford to have Christ.
It is not mere religious habit but your entire conduct—all you think, feel, desire, speak, do, and suffer.
When Socrates drank hemlock in Athens and Caesar fell upon the Roman senate floor, their deaths remained final.
The ground of the mistake lies in misinterpreting the word "remaineth": taken to point to rest after the sorrows of this life are finished.
Christ did not encourage this impetuous declaration but instead checked it—exposing the man's resolution as that of an unreflecting emotionalist and ambitious worldling.
Yet his greatest difficulty arose from a faction calling themselves Christ's party—a group whose very name masked dangerous sectarianism.
Nothing gives the believer such joy as fellowship with Christ.
Man's true wisdom is a pattern of God's wisdom.
The parable of the wheat and tares reveals a profound truth: the beauty of the righteous man remains hidden in the present age.
This architectural image was so revered in both pagan and Christian societies of the Roman Empire that centuries later, when Basilicas became models for Christian worship, the bishop's chair occupied the apse in the very position of the praetor's judgment...