Annual missionary sermon delivered at The Moody Church, Sunday morning, April 26, 1925 by the Rev. Charles E. Hurlburt, General Director of the Africa Inland Mission.
Has a peace filled your heart in answer to the prayer of thousands of God’s dear children—those who have spiritual hearing? Have you caught the sound of the stately steppings of the Master Himself moving about the earth? The measure of the blessing that shall come to The Moody Church, to Chicago, to Africa, to China, to India, and to every part of the earth depends upon the vision that you and I shall …
More is at stake in 2020 than public policy and political leadership. Recently, Decision spoke with Erwin Lutzer, author and pastor emeritus of The Moody Church, about what’s at stake for the church in a culture that seems ever more secular and opposed to biblical truth.
Q: What issues does the church need to address this coming year?
A: I believe that as the church enters 2020, many of the issues we’ve already seen are going to have to be confronted, and there is really no place to hide. Courage will be essential—the willingness to stand for truth against incredible …
The last book of the Bible is not a riddle, it is a revelation. The last book of the Bible is not a puzzle-picture, it is a prophecy. The last book of the Bible is not a confounding, it is an unveiling. Whatever begins in the first book of the Bible, whatever commences in Genesis, continues through the rest of the Bible, and comes to a conclusion in the last book of the Bible. All the way from the “In” of Genesis to the “Amen” of Revelation we have an unfolding of God’s purpose. The last book of the Bible …
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” —Romans 5:10
It is not the entire verse I am thinking of tonight so much as the last four words, “Saved by his life.” What are we to understand by this expression? Certainly the verse itself and the entire context makes it very plain that it is through the death of Christ our sins are put away. It is His precious atoning blood that cleanses us from all sin, thus purging our …
We are not the first Christians who have had to endure unrest and fear that our nation might unravel politically, racially, and economically.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young theologian, found himself living in a Germany rife with riots, finger pointing, and political strife, which brought widespread fear and conflict of every sort. Germany’s first attempt at democracy, the Weimar Republic established after World War I, was about to unravel. There was fear of communism, and with soup lines in Berlin and Munich, there was fear of starvation. Open fighting on the streets …
The formal dedication of the new home of the old Moody Mission took place on Wednesday night.
In introducing Mr. Storey, who is to be superintendent of the Mission and Director of Open Air Work, Mr. Rader spoke of the vision God had given him for the mission.
The Vision
I am sure God has given us a vision for this mission. As you know, since liquor has been put out of business, the need for the old style rescue mission is gone; but the need for the old Gospel remains the same. For a long time I have felt …
Opening address of the Victorious Life Conference, June 23, 1920.
“Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” —Hebrews 7:25
Whenever people visit the city of Jerusalem they are shown a number of sights and wonderful places, and, if you believe everything you are told, you would believe a great deal. But, of course, whether the places are accurately stated or not every visitor goes to see what there is to be seen, and the most important place in Jerusalem in the opinion …
A New Name for an Age-Old Problem: Deconstruction: Abandoning the Faith
About ten years ago, a new term slipped into everyday Christian vocabulary: deconstruction. As we know, construction means to build something; and so, understandably, deconstruction refers to tearing something down. In our social media age, the word is frequently used for those who are abandoning the Christian faith. Those of us who are older remember when we called it “backsliding,” which meant leaving your Christian beliefs and lifestyle and choosing to be absorbed into the world. The word backsliding is used multiple times in the Old Testament when the …
In searching the Scriptures to ascertain what has been revealed concerning the Holy Spirit and His ministry, we discover a striking vocabulary of phrases and synonymous terms that are both interesting and instructive. We find that out of thirty-nine books in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit is mentioned in twenty-four of them, at least 84 times. Another remarkable fact in the Old Testament study of this subject which I observed is that the Holy Spirit is not named at all in the books of either Joshua, Jeremiah, or Daniel, but the marks of His presence are there. He wrought …
When Israel was leaving the wilderness with its sad defeats to enter upon the winning battles of the Promised Land, Joshua was ordered to make two monuments to signalize the crossing of the borderline at the Jordan.
The one monument was to be buried in the river, and the other conspicuously put up on the other side, so that, in days to come, when the children asked the fathers, “What mean ye by these stones?” (Joshua 4:6–7), they could say in reply, “The waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.”
