Tag: Devotional

  • THERE IS A FOUNTAIN

    Amazing Grace William Cowper, 1731–1800 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13) William Cowper is viewed by some as one of the finest of all English writers. But Cowper’s emotional life was one of great turmoil. At an early age…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Our blessed Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?” Deep depression of spirit is the most grievous of all trials; all besides is as nothing. Well might the suffering Saviour cry to his God, “Be not far…

  • MORAL DIVINITY

    My Utmost To His Highest For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection. Romans 6:5. Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have been through crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a decided likeness to Him. The incoming of the Spirit…

  • ROCK OF AGES

    Amazing Grace Augustus M. Toplady, 1740–1778 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea … they all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken him with great violence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated…

  • MORAL DECISION ABOUT SIN

    My Utmost For His Highest Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Romans 6:6. Co-Crucifixion. Have I made this decision about sin—that it must be killed right out in me? It takes a long time to come…

  • O SACRED HEAD NOW WOUNDED

    Amazing Grace Attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091–1153Translated into German by Paul Gerhardt, 1607–1676Translated into English by James W. Alexander, 1804–1859 And when they had plaited a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they bowed the knee before Him, and mocked Him, saying, “Hail,…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly blessing is founded upon the riven rock—riven by the spear which pierced his side. No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like Calvary’s tragedy. Light springs from the…

  • HAVE I SEEN HIM?

    My Utmost For His Highest After that He appeared in another form unto two of them. Mark 16:12. Being saved and seeing Jesus are not the same thing. Many are partakers of God’s grace who have never seen Jesus. When once you have seen Jesus, you can never be the same, other things do not…

  • THE OLD RUGGED CROSS

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by George Bennard, 1873–1958 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by His wounds you have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24) The author and composer of this beloved hymn, George Bennard, began his Christian ministry…