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Morning & Evening
Praise should always follow answered prayer; as the mist of earth’s gratitude rises when the sun of heaven’s love warms the ground. Hath the Lord been gracious to thee, and inclined his ear to the voice of thy supplication? Then praise him as long as thou livest. Let the ripe fruit drop upon the fertile…
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HUMAN WICKEDNESS
Part 2 C. S. Lewis 6. Perhaps my harping on the word ‘kindness’ has already aroused a protest in some readers’ minds. Are we not really an increasingly cruel age? Perhaps we are: but I think we have become so in the attempt to reduce all virtues to kindness. For Plato rightly taught that virtue…
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WHERE CROSS THE CROWDED WAYS OF LIFE
Amazing Grace Franklin Mason North, 1850–1935 Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 82:3, 4) Henry David Thoreau, noted American writer, philosopher, and naturalist of the past 19th century, once described the…
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Morning & Evening
This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, “Our Father.” There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, “I will arise, and go unto my Father.” This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father “in heaven,” and ascends to devout adoration, “Hallowed be thy name.” The…
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O, MASTER LET ME WALK WITH THEE
Amazing Grace Washington Gladden, 1836–1918 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8) Go labor on: Spend and be spent, my joy to do the Father’s will;It is the way…
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Morning & Evening
Here is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for some are made the special objects of divine affection. Do not be afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of election. When your mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a bottle of richest cordial. Those who doubt the doctrines of grace,…
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HUMAN WICKEDNESS
Part 1 C. S. Lewis You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough. LAW, Serious Call, cap. XVI The examples given in the last chapter went to show that love may cause pain to its object, but only on the supposition that that object needs alteration…
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RISE UP, O MEN OF GOD
Amazing Grace William P. Merrill, 1867–1954… that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. (Philippians 1:27, 28) Our world is filled with much physical and social suffering. Often we prefer to close our eyes to…
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Morning & Evening
Paul has four of these “faithful sayings.” The first occurs in 1 Timothy 1:15, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” The next is in 1 Timothy 4:8–9, “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now…
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The Problem of Pain (Part 2)
C. S. Lewis DIVINE GOODNESS Finally we come to an analogy full of danger, and of much more limited application, which happens, nevertheless, to be the most useful for our special purpose at the moment — I mean, the analogy between God’s love for man and a man’s love for a woman. It is freely…
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