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  • THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES 8

    2 Maccabees 8 1 Judas gathers together his host. 9 Nicanor is sent against Judas. 16 Judas exhorts his soldiers to constancy. 20 Nicanor is overcome. 27 The Jews gave thanks, after they have put their enemies to flight, dividing part of the spoils unto the fatherless and unto the widows. 30 Timotheus and Bacchides…

  • JESUS SAVES!

    Amazing Grace Priscilla J. Owens, 1829–1907 Sing to the Lord, praise His name; proclaim His salvation day after day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all peoples. (Psalm 96:2, 3) The heart of the Christian gospel is a person, not a church or a system of doctrinal interpretation. To evangelize is…

  • THE FIRST BOOK OF MACCABEES 14

    1 Maccabees 14 3 Demetrius is overcome of Arsaces. 11 Simon being captain, there is great quietness in Israel. 18 The covenant of friendship with the Romans, and with the people of Sparta is renewed. IN the hundredth, seventy and two year gathered King Demetrius his host, and departed unto Media, to get him help…

  • SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY

    Amazing Grace John W. Peterson, 1921 – 2006Alfred B. Smith, 1916 – 2001 Answer me, O Lord, out of the goodness of Your love; in Your great mercy turn to me. (Psalm 69:16) Charles Haddon Spurgeon, known as the “Prince of Preachers” of the 19th century, labored for more than 20 years on his unrivaled…

  • GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY

    “Good when He gives, supremely good, nor less when He denies. Even crosses from His sovereign hand are blessings in disguise.”

  • ECCLESIASTICUS 43 & 44

    Ecclesiasticus 43 the sum of the creation of the works of God. THIS high ornament the clear firmament, the beauty of the heaven so glorious to behold, The sun also, a marvelous instrument when it appears, declares, at his going out, the work of the most High. At noon it burns the country, and who…

  • ECCLESIASTICUS 37 & 38

    Ecclesiasticus 37 2 How a man should know friends and counselors. 12 To keep his company that fear God. EVERY friend says, I am a friend unto him also: but there is some friend, which is only a friend in name. Remains there not heaviness unto death, when a companion and friend is turned to…

  • GOD LEAD US ALONG

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by George A. Young, 19th century You guide me with Your counsel, and afterward You will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but You? And being with You, I desire nothing on earth. (Psalm 73:24, 25) The more clearly we see the sovereignty of God and depend…

  • ESTHER 15 & 16

    Esther 15 2 Mardocheus moves Esther to go in to the King and make intercession for her people. 9 And she performs his request. MARDOCHEUS also bade Esther to go in unto the King, and pray for her people, and for her country. Remember, saith he, the days of thy low estate, how thou wast…

  • APOCRYPHA TOBIT 14

    Tobit 14 4 Lessons of Tobit to his son. 5 He prophecies the destruction of Nineve. 7 And the restoring of Jerusalem and the Temple. 13 The death of Tobias, and his wife. 16 Tobias age and death. SO Tobit made an end of praising God. And he was eight and fifty years old, when he…