In each season of affliction

(Octavius Winslow)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio God’s family is a sorrowing family. “I have chosen you,” He says, “in the furnace of affliction!” The history of the church finds its fittest emblem in the burning, yet unconsumed bush, which Moses … Continued

Dwell upon this amazing fact

(Octavius Winslow, ” Evening Thoughts“)  LISTEN to Audio!   Download Audio “This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” 1 John 4:10 … Continued

Wherever the grace of God is

(J.C. Philpot) LISTEN to audio!  Download audio Wherever the grace of God is, it constrains its partaker to desire to live to His honor and glory. But he soon finds the difficulty of so doing. Such is . . . … Continued

It is Divine love

(James Smith, “The Love of Christ! The Fullness, Freeness, and Immutability of the Savior’s Grace Displayed!“) Play Audio!  Download Audio “I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering!” … Continued

Observe the gentleness

(Octavius Winslow, “Morning Thoughts”) It is in times of trials that . . . the love, the tenderness, and the grace of the Holy Spirit are better known. As Comforter, Revealer of Jesus, we are more fully led into an … Continued

An act of simple prayerful faith

(Octavius Winslow, “The Burden Cast upon God”)  LISTEN to Audio!   Download Audio “Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain you.” Psalm 55:22 It is by an act of simple prayerful faith, that we transfer our cares and … Continued

Lamb of God I come!

(Octavius Winslow, “The King in His Beauty! A Tribute to the Memory of Miss Charlotte Elliott) I will take the liberty to simply and briefly paraphrase the main idea of Miss Elliott’s timeless hymn: “Just as I am,” a sinner … Continued

By faith I will let them go

(Charles Spurgeon)  Play Audio!  Download Audio “Father, I will that those also whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am.” John 17:24 O death! Why do you touch the tree beneath whose spreading branches, weariness has rest? … Continued

What are all the supports

(Octavius Winslow)  Play Audio!  Download Audio  Play Video What is our path to glory, but the path of tribulation, of suffering, and of death? Our Lord and Master, in the expression of His wisdom and love, forewarns us of this: … Continued

Tears of sympathy

(Octavius Winslow, “The Tears of Christ”)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio “Jesus wept!“ John 11:35 The Creator of all worlds, the Author of all beings, Upholder of the universe– raining tears of human woe and sympathy upon a grave! Oh, there … Continued