Brace Yourselves! Christmas is Coming!
Every year the Christmas season comes a little earlier. And every year older we get, Christmas sneaks up a little faster. I don’t even want to take my Christmas lights down anymore. What’s the point! I’m just putting them right back up, right? I have…
Pray for Vegas: A Response to the Vegas Shooting
I’m getting ready for a barrage of internet comments claiming that Sin City got what it deserved. We heard it when New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. We hear it all the time. And now we’re going to hear it again. ‘Sin begets sin,’…
You Have Given Me Relief
THIS is one of the grandest testimonies ever given by man to the moral government of God. It is not a man’s thanksgiving that he has been set free from suffering. It is a thanksgiving that he has been set free through suffering: “Thou…
Sheep and Swine
FROM THE MOMENT THE PRODIGAL decided to remain in the far country, it was line upon line, precept upon precept. The hand of his father was against him – in love it is true – but still against him – and the position became worse…
You Shine As Lights In The World
We use lights to make manifest. A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. His conversation should be such that all who are about him should clearly perceive whose he…
Blessed Are All, They That Wait For Him
WE hear a great deal about waiting on God. There is, however, another side. When we wait on God, He is waiting till we are ready; when we wait for God, we are waiting till He is ready. There are some people who say, and…
Something Personal
THE FIRST THING TO REMEMBER about being saved is that salvation is a personal matter. “Seek ye the Lord.” That means every one must seek for himself. It won’t do for the parent to seek for the children; it won’t do for the children to…
Daily Experience
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IN the heart of every believer (Romans 8:9); but alas, too often He is shut up in some mere attic in the back of the house, while the world fills the rest. As long as it is so, there is one…
You Can’t Take It With You
A COUPLE OF FRIENDS OF mine in the war called upon one of our great Illinois farmers, to get him to give some money for the soldiers, and during their stay he took them up to the cupola of his house and told them to…
I Have Waited For Thy Salvation
SALVATION! BLESSED BE GOD, THAT our fallen earth has heard the joyful sound! It is unheard in hell. Reader, blessed be the grace which brought it to your ears! Multitudes of man’s family are strangers to it. But thrice-blessed be the Spirit’s love, if it…
For The Sake Of The Lord
It’s dangerous to become too confident in the maturity of our own faith. Our pride is like the spring of a jack-in-the-box: Just when we think it’s broken or that we’ve gotten the lid on tight, it springs back to life. It rears its ugly…
To Whom Be Glory For Ever
“To whom be glory for ever.” This should be the single desire of the Christian. All other wishes must be subservient and tributary to this one. The Christian may wish for prosperity in his business, but only so far as it may help him to…
