Tag: Devotional

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Standing at the foot of the cross, we see hands, and feet, and side, all distilling crimson streams of precious blood. It is “precious” because of its redeeming and atoning efficacy. By it the sins of Christ’s people are atoned for; they are redeemed from under the law; they are reconciled to God, made one…

  • THE RELAPSE OF CONCENTRATION

    My Utmost For His Highest But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. 2 Chron. 15:17. Asa was incomplete in his external obedience, he was right in the main but not entirely right. Beware of the thing of which you say—‘Oh, that…

  • IN THE CROSS I GLORY

    Amazing Grace John Bowring, 1792–1872 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14) The cross has been the most significant symbol of the Christian faith throughout church history. It is said that as many…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    We here behold the Saviour in the depth of his sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in which his cry rends the air—“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” At this moment physical…

  • INSPIRED INVINCIBILITY

    Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me. Matthew 11:29. “Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth.” How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us into the place where we can have communion with Him, and we groan and say—‘Oh Lord, let me be like other people!’ Jesus is asking us to…

  • THERE IS A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY

    Amazing Grace Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, 1823–1895 Finally Pilate handed Him over to them to be crucified. (John 19:16) The full understanding of the depth of suffering that our Savior endured at Calvary for our redemption is difficult to grasp. When Mrs. Cecil Alexander, one of England’s finest hymn writers, was attempting to explain to…