Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • RESCUE THE PERISHING

    Amazing Grace Fanny J. Crosby, 1820–1915 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives … (Isaiah 61:1 KJV) One of the most tragic words in our…

  • Morning & Evening

    Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there. Here we are weary and toilworn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 12)

    THOMAS WATTS Thomas Watts of Billericay, Essex, was a linen draper. Knowing he would soon be arrested, he sold all the cloth in his shop, gave almost everything he owned to his wife and children, donated the rest to the poor, and saited. On April 26, 1555, Watts was arrested and brought before Lord Rich…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 11)

    GEORGE MARSH George Marsh lived quietly for many years with his wife and children on a farm in the countryside. When his wife died, he attended the University of Cambridge to become a minister, serving for a while in Lawrence Sander’s curate. Marsh preached for some time before being arrested and imprisoned for four months…

  • LORD, SPEAK TO ME

    Amazing Grace Frances R. Havergal, 1836–1879 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20) As Christ’s personal ambassadors, we should be people of double resolve: To hear what God has to say to us and then…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 10)

    ROWLAND TAYLOR The town of Hadleigh, in Suffolk, was one of the first towns in England to hear the Word of God from Thomas Bilney. Through his work, a great number of men and women in that parish became educated in the scriptures, many of them having read the entire Bible. Some could have recited…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 9)

    ADAM WALLACE Adam Wallace was tried in the Blackfriars Church in Edinburgh before a large panel of priests, bishops, archbishops, professors, and civil authorities. His accuser was John Lauder, parson of Marbottle, clad in a surplice and red hood. Wallace looked like a simple, poor man when he was brought in. Lauder began: “Adam Wallace,…

  • Morning & Evening

    It is not left to our own option whether we shall praise God or not. Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of his grace, is bound to praise God from day to day. It is true we have no authoritative rubric for daily praise; we have no commandment prescribing…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 8)

    ROBERT BARNS On his graduation from the University of Louvain, Robert Barns was made prior and master of Augstines at Cambridge. At that time little literature was taught at Cambridge, but Barnes introduced its study and produced many educated young men who were familiar with the works of Terence, Plautus, Cicero, and others. Once literature…

  • HOLY BIBLE, BOOK DIVINE

    Amazing Grace John Burton, Sr., 1773–1822 Oh, how I love Your law! I meditate on it all day long. (Psalm 119:97) Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years.— Charles H. Spurgeon The Bible is truly an amazing book. It has rightfully been called “The Book of Books.” The first book…