(“Solitude Sweetened” by James Meikle, 1730-1799) LISTEN to audio! Download audio Now that I am a father and know the affection of a parent . . . would I not defend from every danger, and bestow every truly good thing, or implore … Continued
(Octavius Winslow, “Morning Thoughts”) “You have not traveled this way before!” Joshua 3:4 How solemn is the reflection that each traveler to Zion is commencing a new and untrodden path! Because new events in his history will transpire; scenes in the panorama of life … Continued
(Charles Spurgeon) I bear my witness that some of the best things I have ever learned from mortal lips–I have learned from bedridden saints! There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health–unless it is sickness. Sickness … Continued
(James Meikle, May 24, 1757) LISTEN to audio! Download audio (for full devotional) All plenitude is in Christ, to answer all the needs of His people. Therefore in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, that out of His … Continued
(“Solitude Sweetened” by James Meikle, 1730-1799) LISTEN to audio! Download audio “Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound!” Romans 5:20 Dear Savior, in Your sufferings I not only see the infiniteness of sin, but also the infiniteness of Your love; so that, … Continued
(Newman Hall, “The Shadow of the Almighty” 1867) A Man shall be as a hiding place because: The desert is dreary. The way is long. Heavily burdened, a weary traveler slowly drags onward his wounded feet. Faint by reason of … Continued
Something to ponder: “I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question–but one not found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people … Continued
It may surprise you to learn that the real Saint Patrick was not actually Irish — yet his robust faith changed the Emerald Isle forever. Patrick was born in Roman Britain to a middle-class family in about A.D. 390. When … Continued
(James Meikle, “Converse with the Unseen World”) LISTEN to audio! Download audio “I am the man(woman) who has seen affliction!“ Lamentations 3:1 To be without afflictions is impossible here below, where man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Not to feel when … Continued
(Jonathan Edwards) LISTEN to audio! Download audio Worldly men imagine that there is true excellency and true happiness in those things which they are pursuing. They think that if they could but obtain them, that they would be happy. But when they … Continued
