"neither cold nor hot". Lukewarm! Trying to be hot and cold at the same time, but succeeding only in making an insipid mixture admired by no one. This is the ... Read more

"How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God". The important words to note here are 'thoughts to me' - that is, God's thoughts relating to the Psalmist. The ... Read more

"if the goodman of the house had known". We don't know when the Lord will return and so need to be ready. That He is coming He made quite clear ... Read more

"you do not know how miserable and pitiful you are! ". The church in Laodicea thought it was all right when in fact it was very spiritually sick. This wrong ... Read more

"wash away your sins". Ananias encouraged Saul of Tarsus to be baptised and declare publicly what had happened to him. You begin by trusting in the secret of your own ... Read more

"a fountain opened ... for sin and for uncleanness". This prophecy and promise was given to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. This was the chosen ... Read more

"But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven". The Holy Spirit did not merely enable Stephen to bravely face the mob that was about to stone him. ... Read more

"a great multitude, which no man could number". The multitude in heaven praising the Lord will be too great to number. 'The Father's house will be filled,' is what Jesus ... Read more

"I have compassion on the multitude". Jesus came not to judge the world but to save it, and as He mingled with men and women compassion for the multitudes was ... Read more

"The Lord is my shepherd". Not the testimony of those who do not recognise themselves to be as sheep needing a shepherd. But to those who know themselves to be ... Read more