In a way inconceivable to us, but consistent with his supreme dignity and perfection of happiness and glory, he still feels for his people.
Read MoreSure I am, if ye knew what were before you, or if ye saw but some glances of it, ye would with gladness swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.
Read MoreNow you have thought of God's "holy child Jesus" as a little baby, and as twelve years old in the temple, but did you ever think of Him as being exactly your own age? that He was once really just as old as you are this very day?
Read MoreIt appears, then, that rendering to God the things that are God’s, implies consecrating to his service, our souls, our bodies, our time, our knowledge, our possessions and our influence.
Read Moreeparating from your church family should be painful. It should be hard. Staying committed should be our default position. It may be time to leave a church, but make sure you leave in the right way. If we can’t leave with a clear conscience, it may be that we need to stay.
Read MoreWe have an encouragement which never fails. The love of the bleeding Saviour constrains us. The Spirit is given to them that believe; and that almighty agent has one argument that moves us continually—the love of Christ.
Read MoreConsider for whom Jesus came. Was it to His friends? No! He came for sinful man—who had defaced His image, and abused His love, and rebelled against Him! Yet He came to man, resolving to conquer our obstinacy with His kindness.
Read MoreWhen the last hour comes to the believer, and death and God's judgment appear before his eyes, he does not base his comfort upon his works.
Read MoreIf we fail to take our children to the Scripture and show them our God, we have failed them utterly.
Read MoreIf nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being.
Read MoreWe seek other things that we want with great solicitude and care; we are cumbered with much serving to obtain the world: and shall anything be sought more than God?
Read MoreIn active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
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