Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN

    Amazing Grace William T. Sleeper, 1819–1904 In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, unless a man is born again, [born from above] he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Jesus made it clear that to be a member of His heavenly Kingdom, people must be twice-born—recipients of God’s Spirit and possessors…

  • Morning & Evening

    In every believer’s heart there is a constant struggle between the old nature and the new. The old nature is very active, and loses no opportunity of plying all the weapons of its deadly armoury against newborn grace; while on the other hand, the new nature is ever on the watch to resist and destroy…

  • CHRIST RECEIVETH SINFUL MEN

    Amazing Grace Erdmann Neumeister, 1671–1756Translated by Emma F. Bevan, 1827–1909 This man welcomes sinners and eats with them. (Luke 15:2)Did Christ o’er sinners weep, and shall our cheeks be dry?Let floods of penitential grief burst forth from every eye.— John Newton The thrilling news of the gospel is that Jesus welcomes the nobodies of life…

  • Morning & Evening

    Was it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the first day? Then little wonder is it if I have also changes in my circumstances from the sunshine of prosperity to the midnight of adversity. It will not always be the blaze of noon even in my…

  • MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE

    Amazing Grace Samuel Francis Smith, 1808–1895 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance. (Psalm 33:12) Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.— William Penn Moved deeply by the desire to create a national hymn that would allow the American people…

  • Morning & Evening

    David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God’s own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord’s Anointed, and the Lord’s Afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape? At sorrow’s gates the noblest…

  • BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

    Amazing Grace Julia Ward Howe, 1819–1910 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. (Psalm 20:7) To have implicit trust in God’s faithful care and protection is never easy in times of danger or strife. Yet even in the midst of the terrible Civil…

  • Morning & Evening

    A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and…

  • AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

    Amazing Grace Katharine Lee Bates, 1859–1929 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. (Proverbs 14:34) After what I owe to God, nothing should be more dear or more sacred to me than the love and respect I owe to my country.— Jacques Auguste de Thou Each time we join together…

  • Morning & Evening

    “Be ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed him in different forms, but ever he met it with, “Get thee…