AUTHOR
Campbell Markham
Can You Hear the Loud Cries of Jesus?
“In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears” (Heb. 5:7). Jesus was tempted, more fiercely than we ever will be tempted. The pull on him to sin was relentless, ferocious. What do we learn about Jesus’ love for us from his loud, fervent, and tearful prayers?
Want Abundant Life? It Only Grows on the Solid Rock—the Third Day of Creation
So many of us are unhappy because we don’t know why we exist. God pours out love-gifts of sun and breath, food and family, and we don’t see him. We are dying, and we don’t want our lives to end. We don’t know where we are going, nor how to get there. Yet, even in the most vicious trials of this life, we can find joy.
The Perfect Outcry in a Broken and Anguished World — Psalm 130
We live in a broken world. The locus of humanity’s ills is the pollution and power of sin within the heart and soul of every human being. In Psalm 130 we hear the perfect outcry that can, and must, arise from every heart.
Why Thomas Was Wrong to Doubt Jesus’ Resurrection
Believing the Resurrection without seeing is not believing without thinking. Why was Thomas wrong to doubt his fellow apostles’ testimony about Jesus’ resurrection?
Why Nothing Will Stop Jesus from Building His Church
Jesus is building his church at exactly the rate he wants it to be built—not one person faster or slower. Hell has not slowed the construction by even a second. Here’s why there’s no need to fear for the future of Jesus’ church.
How Do People Try to Cover Up Their Sins with Fig Leaves Like Adam and Eve Did?
Adam and Eve thought fig leaves would protect them from God’s righteous judgment of their disobedience. How do we try to cover up our sin with our own fig leaves to justify ourselves before God?
Why Do Christians Pray, “And Lead Us Not into Temptation, But Deliver Us from Evil”?
“Has God really commanded that?” We are constantly and fiercely tempted to break God’s commands in the same way that Adam and Eve were. We are like bunnies in the jaws of the lion, in desperate need of God’s deliverance.
You Need to Rest—the Seventh Day of Creation
The Sabbath was supposed to be a day of rest, but the Pharisees loaded it with stupid laws and turned the Sabbath into a day of fear and misery. How did Jesus recover the Sabbath, and what does it mean for us today?
Why Do Christians Pray, “Forgive Us Our Debts”?
The sinful woman in Luke 7:37-50 crumpled herself before the Lord, against whom she had ultimately rebelled. We see her love for Jesus welling up from her deepest soul. Why do Christians pray, “Forgive us our debts?”