I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows to the Lord Now in the presence of all His people. (Psalm 116:13–14, NKJV) In His last meal, Jesus and His disciples celebrated the Passover Seder (Mark 14:12), including four cups of wine and the […]

“If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,” Let Israel now say—Our help is in the name of the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. (Psalm 124:1, 8, NKJV) A few months after my father suffered a horrific car accident in 1949, friends presented him a wonderful get-well-gift. My dad, Barclay Allen, was

“Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed.” (Genesis 3:15, NKJV) y father, a dance-band leader, did things on his own schedule. For two years the band families traveled from coast to coast for music bookings. One Christmas, Dad’s band was in Chicago at the Palmer House—a grand old hotel. As the

“Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done marvelous things; . . . The LORD has made known His salvation; . . . Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; . . . Shout joyfully before the LORD, the King.” (Psalm 98:1–6, NKJV) An unknown prophet and poet wrote the

“Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, ‘I have acquired a man from the LORD’” (Genesis 4:1, NKJV). If the normal and expected feelings of a woman who has just given birth to a living child are joy and ecstasy—following the pain of her labor—how boundless the joy must