Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • Morning & Evening

    Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. — Jeremiah 31:3 Sometimes the Lord Jesus tells his Church his love thoughts. “He does not think it enough behind her back to tell it, but in her very presence he says, ‘Thou art all fair, my love.’ It is true, this is not his ordinary…

  • WHILE BY OUR SHEEP

    Amazing Grace German carol, Translated by Theodore Baker, 1851–1934 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. (Luke 2:20) It was a cold, clear night. The stars twinkled above and an air of peaceful serenity settled calmly over the…

  • Morning & Evening

    The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. — Proverbs 16:33 If the disposal of the lot is the Lord’s whose is the arrangement of our whole life? If the simple casting of a lot is guided by him, how much more the events of our entire…

  • THERE’S A SONG IN THE AIR!

    Amazing Grace Josiah G. Holland, 1819–1881 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God … (Luke 2:13) What a beautiful scene is drawn for us in this joyful Christmas hymn! As we visualize once more the glorious chorus of angels, the brilliant star, and Mary watching over her babe…

  • Morning & Evening

    Rend your heart, and not your garments. — Joel 2:13 Garment-rending and other outward signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical; but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Men will attend to the most multiplied and minute ceremonial regulations—for such things are pleasing to…

  • IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR

    Amazing Grace Edmund H. Sears, 1810–1876 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests. (Luke 2:13) The peace of Christmas, proclaimed by the heavenly chorus, is one of God’s greatest…

  • Morning & Evening

    I remember thee. — Jeremiah 2:2 Let us note that Christ delights to think upon his Church, and to look upon her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth the mind continually pursue the object of its choice. We cannot look too often…

  • Morning & Evening

    Come unto me. — Matthew 11:28 The cry of the Christian religion is the gentle word, “Come.” The Jewish law harshly said, “Go, take heed unto thy steps as to the path in which thou shalt walk. Break the commandments, and thou shalt perish; keep them, and thou shalt live.” The law was a dispensation…

  • HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING

    Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for Me One who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times. (Micah 5:2) Christmas carols as we know them now were abolished by the English Puritan…

  • Morning & Evening

    Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her. — Ruth 1:14 Both of them had an affection for Naomi, and therefore set out with her upon her return to the land of Judah. But the hour of test came; Naomi most unselfishly set before each of them the trials which awaited them,…