Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • O WORD OF GOD INCARNATE

    William W. How, 1823–1897 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16, 17) Everyone has a basic premise for his life’s convictions. The Christian begins with Jesus Christ, who came to…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 5)

    JOHN HUSS Richard II had married a native of Bohemia, and through her servants, the works of Wycliffe were carried to that country, where they were effectively preached to the people by John Huss of Prague. Pope John XXIII, seeking to suppress the Bohemians, appointed Cardinal de Columna to look into Huss’s preaching and deal…

  • THE SANDS OF TIME ARE SINKING

    Amazing Grace Anne Ross Cousin, 1824–1906 And I—in righteousness I will see Your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing Your likeness. (Psalm 17:15) What beautiful pictures of Christ and our relationship to Him as His bride are portrayed for us in this lovely hymn text which was inspired by the dying…

  • Morning & Evening

    He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to his enemies, and reserve all the…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 4)

    PERSECUTION BY THE VANDALS, AD 429 The Vandals crossed over from Spain to the north coast of Africa and defeated the Roman army there, conquering the whole country under their leader, Genseric. Since the Vandals were of the Arian sect, they abused the Christians wherever they found them, laying waste to all their cities and…

  • WHEN ALL THY MERCIES, O MY GOD

    Amazing Grace Joseph Addison, 1672–1719 Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever. (1 Chronicles 16:11 KJV) A reflection upon God’s blessings will always result in a response of worship and praise; a neglect of gratitude will eventually produce a lifestyle of self-centeredness. Joseph Addison, the author of…

  • Morning & Evening

    The vision in this chapter describes the condition of Israel in Zechariah’s day; but being interpreted in its aspect towards us, it describes the Church of God as we find it now in the world. The Church is compared to a myrtle grove flourishing in a valley. It is hidden, unobserved, secreted; courting no honour…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 3)

    THE SEVENTH PERSECUTION, AD 249 By now, the heathen temples of Rome were almost forsaken, and the Christian churches were crowded with converts. The emperor Decius decided it was time to crush the Christians once and for all. Fabian, the bishop of Rome, was the first person of authority to feel the severity of this…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 2)

    THE FIRST PERSECUTION The first of the ten persecutions was stirred up by Nero about AD 64. His rage against the Christians was so fierce that Eusebius records, “A man might then see cities full of men’s bodies, the old lying together with the young, and the dead bodies of women cast out naked, without…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 1)

    John Foxe was born in 1516 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. At the age of sixteen, he went to Oxford, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1537, became a professor, and completed his masters in 1543. While teaching at Oxford, he became good friends with Hugh Latimer and William Tyndale, embracing Protestantism. His views were…