On an October morning in 1555, two preachers were led to a ditch outside Balliol College in Oxford to be burned for teaching the gospel of justification by faith.
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I Shall Be Satisfied
More than twenty years ago, I sat in my college dorm room as a resident assistant and taught one of my first devotionals to a hall of underclassmen.
Ask What I Shall Give Thee
One morning the cupboards were bare. Hundreds of children sat at long tables in the building, with empty plates and no breakfast. Müller stood, gave thanks to God for the food the children were about to eat, and waited.
God is There
There, a man in chains in a foreign prison, surrounded by enemies, declared that the presence and faithfulness of God reached past the walls and into a future he could not see.
From Thorns, A Harvest
Around 2005, a botanist named Elaine Solowey planted a few of those seeds, each roughly 2,000 years old. One of them sprouted. The researchers named the seedling Methuselah, and it grew into a healthy date palm.
Arise! Your King is Coming
Joy broke into a long season of waiting, and a wedding summoned a worn-out people to look up. The bride left one house and was brought to another, and a country that had forgotten color remembered it for a day.
Surrendering Our Gifts Back to God
A room full of people bowing their heads can be worshipping the living God, or worshipping an idea of God that makes no demands.
A Fire Shut Up in My Bones
He later wrote that he would remain in prison “till the moss grew on his eyelids” rather than agree to silence the gospel.
Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?
The God of the Bible moves toward weakness. He gives life where human ability has run out.
What I Desire
The harder he worked, the more certain he became that his efforts could never close the gap between himself and a holy God. It was Paul’s letter to the Romans that opened his eyes.