Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Peter 1.8.
Author: A. Bonar
WHAT IS A GODLY EXPERIENCE (1) A godly experience consists in a saving knowledge of Christ. Many have a theoretical knowledge of salvation. But when we come to enquire into the one essential knowledge which far transcends all other knowledge – that is, to know personally and experimentally the saving, emancipating, delivering, renewing and transforming …
FOUNDATIONS OF THE EASTER MESSAGE R. A. Finlayson Festus, the Roman Governor, put the case for Christianity in simple terms when he told Herod that it was a matter of “one Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.” That was the issue then: it is the issue now. On the fact of …
TIME AND ETERNITY Time how short! Eternity how long! Life how precarious and vanishing! Death how certain! The pursuits and employments of this present life how vain, unsatisfying, trifling and vexatious! God’s favour and eternal life how unspeakably precious! His wrath, the never-quenched fire, the never-dying worm, how dreadful! Oh, trifle not away the span …