Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL

    Amazing Grace Latin hymn, 18th centuryEnglish translation by Frederick Oakeley, 1802–1880 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about!” … (Luke 2:15, 20) The songs of the Christmas season…

  • Morning & Evening

    We may understand this to refer to justification. “They shall walk in white”; that is, they shall enjoy a constant sense of their own justification by faith; they shall understand that the righteousness of Christ is imputed to them, that they have all been washed and made whiter than the newly-fallen snow. Again, it refers…

  • REPENTANCE

    My Utmost For His Highest For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2 Cor. 7:10. Conviction of sin is best portrayed in the words— ‘My sins, my sins, my Saviour.How sad on Thee they fall.’ Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an…

  • JOIN ALL THE GLORIOUS NAMES

    Amazing Grace Isaac Watts, 1674–1748 Praise be to His glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with His glory. (Psalm 72:19) “Wisdom,” “love,” “power,” “prophet,” “priest,” “king,” “almighty Lord,” “conqueror,” “captain”—these are the names and titles used throughout the stanzas of this hymn to describe our Lord. But the conclusion is this: The…

  • Morning & Evening

    Walk the streets by moonlight, if you dare, and you will see sinners then. Watch when the night is dark, and the wind is howling, and the picklock is grating in the door, and you will see sinners then. Go to yon jail, and walk through the wards, and mark the men with heavy over-hanging…

  • THE BOW IN THE CLOUD

    My Utmost For His Highest I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. Genesis 9:13. It is the will of God that human beings should get into moral relationship with Him, and His covenants are for this purpose. ‘Why does…

  • HIS NAME IS WONDERFUL

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by Audrey Mieir, 1916– For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6 KJV) More than 2,500 years…

  • Morning & Evening

    The head and members are of one nature, and not like that monstrous image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream. The head was of fine gold, but the belly and thighs were of brass, the legs of iron, and the feet, part of iron and part of clay. Christ’s mystical body is no absurd combination…

  • THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST

    My Utmost For His Highest Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. Genesis 41:40. I have to account to God for the way in which I rule my body under His domination. Paul said he did not “frustrate the grace of God”—make it of no effect. The grace of God is absolute,…

  • THAT BEAUTIFUL NAME

    Amazing Grace Jean Perry, 1865–1935 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21) There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in heaven,The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior…