By Shawn McMullen In The Knowledge of the Holy, A.W. Tozer wrote, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion […]
By Shawn McMullen Each morning as the school day began, my grade school classmates and I sat at our desks and stared at a rectangular brown box mounted high on the classroom wall. The wooden speaker relayed the voice of our principal who announced the day’s lunch menu and a schedule of after-school activities. […]
By Shawn McMullen Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the […]
By Shawn McMullen All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’—which means, ‘God with us’ (Matthew 1:22, 23). How would you respond if God revealed himself to you […]
By Shawn McMullen If we’re not drawing near to God, we’re not growing in our faith. Most of us grasp this truth, but are we acting on it with urgency? James ends the third chapter of his letter on a positive note: “Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness” (v. 18). […]
