Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • 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…

  • Morning & Evening

    Strange enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This morning it may be well for us to see the typical teaching of so singular a rule. We, too, are lepers, and may read the law of the leper as…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 7)

    THE WALDENSES About 1160, Peter Waldo, a citizen of lyons, suddenly changed his lifestyle, giving away large amounts of money, studying God’s Word, and teaching others how to live virtuous lives. In time, people flocked to him, eager to receive the scriptures he translated into French and passed out to those who wanted to learn.…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 6)

    A GODLY WOMAN Of all the people who suffered for Christ and His truth, I know of none so admirable as the godly woman put to death in Chipping Sodbury about this time. Her constancy was glorious to behold, especially when contrasted with the character of the chancellor who condemned her, one Dr. Whittenham. When…

  • 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…