Tag: god

  • 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…

  • BLESSED BE THE NAME

    Amazing Grace W. H. Clark, 19th century, Refrain by Ralph E. Hudson, 1843–1901 I will exalt You, my God the King; I will praise Your name for ever and ever … for you have exalted above all things Your name and Your Word. (Psalm 145:1 and Psalm 138:2) The Bible teaches that there are two…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Morning & Evening

    The Lord’s admiration of his Church is very wonderful, and his description of her beauty is very glowing. She is not merely fair, but “all fair.” He views her in himself, washed in his sin-atoning blood and clothed in his meritorious righteousness, and he considers her to be full of comeliness and beauty. No wonder…

  • THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL

    My Utmost For His Highest For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10. The moral law does not consider us as weak human beings at all, it takes no account of our heredity and infirmities, it demands that we be absolutely moral. The…

  • HOW TEDIOUS AND TASTELESS THE HOURS

    Amazing Grace John Newton, 1725–1807 Whom have I in heaven but You? And earth has nothing I desire beside You. (Psalm 73:25) The gospel of Jesus Christ revolves around the two Advents of the Savior: The first when He came as the humble baby in Bethlehem’s manger (Philippians 2:6–8); the second when He returns as…

  • ALL OF GRACE

    C. H. Spurgeon Chapter 14 “My Redeemer Liveth” I HAVE SPOKEN CONTINUALLY to you concerning Christ crucified, who is the great hope of the guilty, but we will be wise to remember that our Lord has risen from the dead and lives eternally. You are not asked to trust in a dead Jesus but in…