Why are you cast down, O my soul? J.C.Philpot “Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.” Psalm 42:11 Do you forget, O soul, that the way to heaven is a very strait […]
Who makes you different from anyone else? (Charles Spurgeon) “Who maketh thee to differ from another? What hast thou, that thou did’t not receive? And if thou dids’t receive it, why dost thou boast as if thou hads’t not received it?” 1 Corinthians 4:7 It is grace—free sovereign grace, which has made you to differ! […]
Nevertheless I am continually with thee Psalms 73:23. My dear child, when you look at the sun, I wish it may lead your thoughts to him who made it, and who placed it in the firmament, not only to give us light but to be the brightest, noblest emblem of himself: there is but […]
GLORIOUS ATTRIBUTES AND WAYS John MacDuff “This is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose”— “Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, Your justice like the great deep. How priceless is Your unfailing love! Both […]
“And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” Exodus 3:2 Octavius winslow There is yet another part of this significant type to be considered, equally important […]
The Two Natures in a Believer By J. C. Philpot Among those branches of divine truth which, without special teaching, we cannot enter into, is, that of the two natures in a believer. And yet, though every child of God must in all ages have been experimentally acquainted with the inward conflict between flesh and […]
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED The Master had just finished telling His disciples that some very troubling things were soon coming to pass. He told them that one of them would betray Him. He told them that He was going away and they could not come with Him. He told Peter that he […]
Faith Faith is not believing you are saved. Faith is believing that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, the sovereign, successful, savior of sinners, and that your only hope of acceptance before a Holy God is to be found in Him, not having your own righteousness which is of the law, but that […]
It was to SAVE sinners that Christ Jesus came into the world. He did not come to help them save themselves, to induce them to save themselves, not even to enable them to save themselves. He came to SAVE THEM! – William Hendriksen “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” […]
William Huntington Is the law glorious, holy, just, good, spiritual, true, and eternal? Let it be so. Christ is the”express image of the Father’s person, and the brightness of his glory.” Is the law holy? Christ is the holy one. Is the law just? Christ is the just one. Is the law good? Christ is […]