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HOSANNA, LOUD HOSANNA
Amazing Grace Jennette Threlfall, 1821–1880 Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest. (Matthew 21:9) The week preceding Easter Sunday is known as Holy or Passion Week. These seven days have been described as the most intense and important week of history.…
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MORNING & EVENING
No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but it was not intended merely as a display of power—many lessons were herein taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and like a worn-out vesture, rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all…
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READINESS
My Utmost For His Highest God called unto him … and he said, Here am I. Exodus 3:4. When God speaks, many of us are like men in a fog, we give no answer. Moses’ reply revealed that he was somewhere. Readiness means a right relationship to God and a knowledge of where we are…
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JESUS PAID IT ALL
Amazing Grace Elvina M. Hall, 1820–1889 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” (Isaiah 1:18) It has been stated that all religious systems can be spelled with just two…
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MORNING & EVENING
Rahab depended for her preservation upon the promise of the spies, whom she looked upon as the representatives of the God of Israel. Her faith was simple and firm, but it was very obedient. To tie the scarlet line in the window was a very trivial act in itself, but she dared not run the…
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NECK OR NOTHING
My Utmost For His Highest Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him …, and did cast himself into the sea. John 21:7. Have you ever had a crisis in which you deliberately and emphatically and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of will. You…
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BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT CALVARY
Amazing Grace Words and Music by John M. Moore, 1925 – 1967 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) Today’s featured hymn was written in 1952 by one of our contemporary song writers, John M. Moore, currently a Baptist pastor and evangelist in Toronto,…
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MORNING & EVENING
Reader, have you come to the blood of sprinkling? The question is not whether you have come to a knowledge of doctrine, or an observance of ceremonies, or to a certain form of experience, but have you come to the blood of Jesus? The blood of Jesus is the life of all vital godliness. If…
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CAN YOU COME DOWN?
My Utmost For His Highest While ye have light, believe in the light. John 12:36. We all have moments when we feel better than our best, and we say—‘I feel fit for anything; if only I could be like this always!’ We are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we…
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BENEATH THE CROSS OF JESUS
Amazing Grace Elizabeth C. Clephane, 1830–1869 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18 KJV) There is no neutral ground when we face the cross: Either we accept its atoning work and become a new person,…
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