P Is for Prophet (Part 1)
When I was a seminary student in Chicago, the buzz words on campus were “pastoral counseling” and “prophetic preaching.” There were classes on pastoral counseling but I can’t recall being taught how to be a prophet. Most of us grew up in churches that preferred to be non-prophet organizations, even though our post-war nation certainly
K Is for Kindness (Part 2)
The kindness of strangers My wife and I were driving in Wisconsin on a slippery road when our car skidded and we found ourselves in the ditch. Just then a car appeared and stopped and four healthy young men got out and pushed our car out of the ditch in just a few minutes. They
K Is for Kindness (Part 1)
When the Lord calls me to my heavenly home, i want to look up a Scottish Presbyterian preacher named John Watson who ministered in Scotland and England from 1874 to 1905 and wrote a shelf of popular books under the pen name “Ian Maclaren.” Why look him up? Because he successfully followed a motto that
A Is for Ambition (Part 2)
Godly AmbitionIn your personal Bible study, have you ever noticed that the Lord called busy people to serve Him? Moses was caring for his father-in-law’s sheep when his call came, and Gideon was threshing wheat when God commissioned him to be a general. David was tending his father’s sheep when Samuel summoned him and anointed
A Is for Ambition (Part 1)
“I would have all lazy students drummed out of the college, and all lazy ministers out of the Assembly…I would have laziness held to be the one unpardonable sin in all our students and in all our ministers” (The Life of Alexander Whyte, by G. F. Barbour, p. 282). So spoke the esteemed Scottish preacher
F Is for Fullness (Part 3)
Overflowing Joy Paul was prisoner in Rome, but he expected to be released. He planned to go to Philippi and visit his dear Christian friends there “so that through my being with you again your joy in Christ Jesus will overflow on account of me” (Phil. 1:26). Paul was the kind of Christian who brought
F Is for Fullness (Part 2)
Overflowing Tears “Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears!” wrote the prophet Jeremiah (9:1). “Let my eyes overflow with tears day and night” (14:!7). Strange prayers! But Jeremiah loved hsi people and faithfully ministered to them and wept over them forty years, but they would not
F Is for Fullness (Part 1)
“I do hope my Father will let the river of my life go flowing fully till the finish. I don’t want it to end up in a swamp.” The British preacher and writer F. F. Meyer spoke those words, and I have often pondered the two images he used: the river and the swamp. The
You Can Have a Happy Home
(Copyright Warren Wiersbe, originally appeared in Songs in the Night. May not be reprinted without permission of 2ProphetU.com.) A cute little girl was sitting on top of a pile of luggage in a hotel lobby. Her parents were at the desk registering for their room. A sympathetic lady asked the little girl if they were
A Gift of Peace and Rest
(originally appeared in Songs in the Night, may not be reprinted without permission of 2ProphetU.com) He stood in the busy marketplace in Capernaum, and everybody knew who He was. He was Jesus of Nazareth, the teacher, the healer. And He looked at the crowd as they rushed here and there, just the way the crowds
It Takes Time to Make Things Beautiful
(Originally appeared in Songs in the Night, copyright Warren W. Wiersbe) It’s good to know that the word beautiful has returned to our vocabulary. We’re accustomed now to hearing people talk about beautiful ideas, beautiful thoughts, and even beautiful people. As I thought about this recently, I recalled a verse from the Bible: “He hath
The God Who Makes Us Again
(Copyright, Warren W. Wiersbe. This material originally appeared in Songs in the Night. Not to be reproduced or copied without permission of 2PU.) While driving through the Appalachian region, my wife and I stopped at a pottery shop. I had never seen a mountain craftsman make pottery on the old-fashioned potter’s wheel. But there he