A BIBLICAL APPROACH TO THE DISCIPLINE OF CHILDREN Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22.6. 1. Parents must themselves be disciplined. 2. Let your pattern of discipline be that of the Bible. God loves His children and disciplines them. …
Issue: Issue 8
DAILY BIBLE READING A normal healthy child will only grow if it is regularly supplied with food and drink. A healthy Christian will only ‘grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’, (2 Peter 3.18) if regularly supplied with spiritual food and drink. Hence the urgent need for daily …
EUGENIE THE HUNCHBACK In one of the suburbs of the gay city of Paris, lived a little girl named Eugenie. She did not live in a nice house with a beautiful garden, but right up the top of a high house in which a number of other families also lodged. Her father was a baker, …
EXPERIENCE In my house there is a well of extraordinary depth which reminds me of something better than the boasted deep experience of certain censorious professors of religion, who teach that to feel sin within is the main thing, but to be delivered from it of small consequence. When this well was commenced, the owner …
THE BOY WAS FATHER TO THE MAN In October 1891 while Charles Haddon Spurgeon set out on his last journey to Mentone, where he died on 31st January 1892, the ‘British Weekly’ published a letter written by him at the age of fifteen, in 1849. It ran as follows: My Dear Uncle, Dumb men make …
THE BIBLE It is a book of laws to show the right and the wrong. It is a book of wisdom, that makes the foolish wise. It is a book of truth, which reflects all human errors. It is a book of life, that shows how to avoid everlasting death. It is the most entertaining …
DEAD AND ALIVE “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God” (Col 3.3). Many of God’s truths are wonderfully paradoxical. To the mere carnal reasoner they must appear absurd and impossible. For instance, Paul said, “When I am weak, then am I strong”; “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, …
ON CONVERSION AS OUR AIM Extracted from Lectures to my Students by C. H. Spurgeon The grand object of the Christian ministry is the glory of God. Whether souls are converted or not, if Jesus Christ be faithfully preached, the minister has not laboured in vain, for he is a sweet savour unto God as …