Truth Matters

The latest devotional by Philip De Courcy

Jan302017

RISE AND SHINE

There is an old preacher story about a gentleman who was walking on the east end of Glasgow, Scotland. The streets were so narrow and the tenements so high that little direct light ever reached the houses on the one side. The man’s attention was drawn to a disheveled, barefoot...Read more

Jan232017

I’M NOT LOOKING FOR YOUR APPROVAL

Following lunch with his office staff, the boss was in a rather happy mood and so thought he would roll out his latest jokes to brighten everybody’s day. With a captive audience he started to play the comic with everybody laughing loudly on cue except for one woman. Addressing the...Read more

Jan092017

READY FOR ANYTHING

If you or I were to play golf at the Calcutta Country Club and Golf Course in Calcutta, India we might need to read ground rule number ten a second time just to make sure we read it right the first time. Simply stated, it reads: “Play the ball where...Read more

Dec192016

A RARE FIND

Jeb Stuart was the Civil War’s version of a B-2 Stealth Bomber. This gallant and gutsy West Point graduate had an uncanny ability to infiltrate the federal lines without being detected.  On the Confederate side he was nicknamed “the eyes of the army,” and was unquestionably one of General Robert...Read more

Dec062016

AWAITING AN ANSWER

Howard Hendricks, the beloved professor at Dallas Theological Seminary who is now with the Lord, loved to tell this story about himself and unanswered prayer. When Hendricks was a young man and unmarried he became aware that several mothers in his church had set their caps on him on behalf...Read more

Nov212016

GET RID OF IT

I am sure, like me that you’ve never seen a marathon runner enter a serious race dressed in a heavy raincoat, workman’s jeans, and a pair of hobnail boots. Given the length of a marathon is 26 miles, given the enormous strain the body will encounter in the thick of...Read more

Oct312016

YOU SING HARMONY AND I’LL SING BASS

The book of Revelation is a very noisy book. It resounds to the clatter of the thunderbolts of God’s wrath poured out upon an unbelieving world. From start to finish it echoes the sound of war, earthquakes, and demonic beasts. Ironically, for all its blood and thunder it is essentially...Read more

Oct182016

LET’S GET PHYSICAL

Robert Murray McCheyne was a gifted and grace-filled preacher of the gospel in Scotland. In 1827, he entered Edinburgh University at the age of fourteen. He then went on to lead a Presbyterian congregation to over a thousand by the age of twenty-three. McCheyne was used of God to kindle...Read more

Oct032016

YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE

On a recent TV quiz show in the United Kingdom named University Challenge, one of the teams represented was a British theological college. They fared well against their opponents and were able to answer most of the questions on philosophy and religion with a good degree of accuracy. But on...Read more

Sep302016

It Comes With a Guarantee

When a young couple gets married, they immediately dream of getting their own house. They work hard and set about saving their money for a down payment on their dream house. Finally, the day arrives when they draw up the papers to buy that house. They meet with the bank...Read more

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