Prepare to meet your God!

(Letters of John Berridge, 1792) PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD! Dear friend, I am growing, as I should, more base and loathsome in my own sight, and Christ is growing more precious and lovely! I am very feeble in body, … Continued

Do I so live in this world?

(Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio “Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her Beloved?” Song of Solomon 8:5 Ask yourselves, “Am I this blessed person?” Do I so live in this world, that others notice the holiness … Continued

He alone can enlighten us

 (Charles Spurgeon)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio “Do you understand what you read?” Acts 8:30 We would be better teachers of others, and less liable to be carried about by every wind of doctrine–if we sought to have a more … Continued

Earth’s weary sons

(Octavius Winslow, “A Word in Season from Christ to the Weary”)   LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio “This Man receives sinners!” Luke 15:2 The beings whom Jesus sought out and drew around Him, were . . . the burdened, the … Continued

How little do we possess of that Love

(Letters of John Berridge, 1716-1793) Alas! How little do we possess of that Love which bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things. We grow more like Jesus, only as we grow up into Him in love. And this grace purifies, and … Continued

It is well

 (Alexander Smellie, “The Hour of Silence” 1899)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio “These words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, … Continued

Examine the Scriptures

(John Newton)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio EXAMINE THE SCRIPTURES Acts 17:11, “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what … Continued

Jehovah

(​James Smith, “The Believer’s Companion in Seasons of Affliction and Trouble” 1842) “I will be their God — and they will be My people!” Hebrews 8:10 So has Jehovah purposed in reference to all the chosen of His love! In … Continued

How soon!

(Octavius Winslow, “Morning Thoughts”) Child of God, soon, oh, how soon! all that now loads your heart with care, and wrings it with sorrow; all that dims your eye with tears, and renders the day anxious and the night sleepless; … Continued

God’s Word

(author unknown) “And we also thank God continually because, when you received the Word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the Word of God, which … Continued