Tag: christianity

  • O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL

    Amazing Grace Latin hymn, 18th centuryEnglish translation by Frederick Oakeley, 1802–1880 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about!” … (Luke 2:15, 20) The songs of the Christmas season…

  • THE BOW IN THE CLOUD

    My Utmost For His Highest I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. Genesis 9:13. It is the will of God that human beings should get into moral relationship with Him, and His covenants are for this purpose. ‘Why does…

  • THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST

    My Utmost For His Highest Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. Genesis 41:40. I have to account to God for the way in which I rule my body under His domination. Paul said he did not “frustrate the grace of God”—make it of no effect. The grace of God is absolute,…

  • THAT BEAUTIFUL NAME

    Amazing Grace Jean Perry, 1865–1935 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21) There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in heaven,The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior…

  • Morning & Evening

    We know of a place in England still existing, where a dole of bread is served to every passerby who chooses to ask for it. Whoever the traveller may be, he has but to knock at the door of St. Cross Hospital, and there is the dole of bread for him. Jesus Christ so loveth…

  • Morning & Evening

    This should be a great encouragement to try to do good, since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you to be the messenger of…

  • NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER

    My Utmost For His Highest And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 1 Cor. 2:4. If in preaching the Gospel you substitute your clear knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the Gospel, you…

  • COME, THOU LONG-EXPECTED JESUS

    Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come … (Haggai 2:7 KJV) Anticipation is a necessary and important part of every believer’s life. In Old Testament times the people anxiously awaited a Messianic Kingdom. Today we should be waiting with the same urgent expectancy as…

  • Morning & Evening

    Having pronounced his Church positively full of beauty, our Lord confirms his praise by a precious negative, “There is no spot in thee.” As if the thought occurred to the Bridegroom that the carping world would insinuate that he had only mentioned her comely parts, and had purposely omitted those features which were deformed or…

  • CHRISTIAN PERFECTION

    My Utmost For His Highest Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect.… Phil. 3:12. It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements is apt to be…