"I am a stranger and sojourner!" Psalm 39:12This world is not our rest. Here we have no continuing city. We are intended for another state. Our journey lies through the world, but our home is beyond it. We are here for a time to do good, and to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
O soul, consider this deeply: it is the life of a Christian that carries more conviction and persuasion than his words. Even if you, like an angel, talk of Christ, of the gospel, of the doctrines of grace, and of heaven, yet if you indulge...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living." - Job 30:23 If you are in Christ, you may well bear your trials, for death will put an end to all your troubles. If a man on a journey is not well...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal!" 2 Corinthians 4:18In our Christian pilgrimage it is well, for the most part, to be looking forward. Forward lies the crown...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"We know that all things work together for good, to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28All the afflictions, all the temptations, all the oppressions, all the oppositions, and all the persecutions...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Who, of those had seen me as a slave in Africa, could have expected what has since taken place! How unworthy am I of all that I have received and most unworthy of the honor of preaching the Gospel, which I too long despised and blasphemed! The...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"He who spared not His own Son but freely gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" Romans 8:32If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"All that the Father gives me will come to me; and whoever comes to me, I will never cast out." - John 6:37There are some especially challenging verses in the Bible which are simply profound and glorious, and are to be believed and enjoyed. Yet...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Genesis 7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"Ruth left and entered the field to gather grain behind the harvesters. She happened to be in the portion of land belonging to Boaz, who was from Elimelech's family." Ruth 2:3"She happened." Yes, it seemed nothing but an accident, but how divinely...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
