Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • 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…

  • FADE, FADE EACH EARTHLY JOY

    Amazing Grace Jane C. Bonar, 1821–1884 Love the Lord, all His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, but the proud He pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. (Psalm 31:23, 24) Each of us was created for the purpose of enjoying the fellowship of Almighty God.…

  • Morning & Evening

    Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Conscience accuses no longer. Judgment now decides for the sinner instead of against him. Memory looks back upon past sins, with deep sorrow for the sin, but yet with no dread of any penalty to come; for Christ has paid the debt of his people to…

  • JESUS, I AM RESTING, RESTING

    Amazing Grace Jean Sophia Pigott, 1845–1882 In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength. (Isaiah 30:15) John Wesley, the flaming evangelist of the 18th century, once stated that Christians must “learn to live with a slack rein.” If that were true then, it is even more necessary in the…

  • Morning & Evening

    For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all…

  • MAJESTIC SWEETNESS SITS ENTHRONED

    Amazing Grace Samuel Stennett, 1727–1795 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. (Hebrews 2:9) The dominant theme of the beautifully expressed text in this hymn, “Majestic…

  • Morning & Evening

    What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term “acceptance” in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms, mortals, sinners, should be the objects of divine love! But it is only…

  • SUN OF MY SOUL

    Amazing Grace Samuel Stennett, 1727–1795 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. (Hebrews 2:9) The dominant theme of the beautifully expressed text in this hymn, “Majestic…