Well, Christians, remember this, God hath two strings to His bow; if your hearts will not lie humble and low under the sense of sin and misery. He will make them lie low under the lack of some desired mercy. Thomas Brooks
Issue: Issue 8
In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it. Thomas Adams
BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS, AND SWEAT It was on May 13, 1940, in his first speech to the House of commons, that the newly elected Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, said; ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.’ And so it was to be for four more harrowing and weary years until the …
As Christ ceased not to be a King because He was like a servant, nor to be a lion because He was like a lamb, nor to be God because He was made man, nor to be a judge because He was judged; so a man doth not lose his honour by humility, but he …
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. Samuel Rutherford
PASSING TIME See how time’s unrelenting flood Like a great tidal river flows, Bears all our human life away, We helpless stand, time swiftly goes. Nor will time for mankind delay “Tis fixed by God’s unchanging laws; Unpityingly it rolls along, Nor brooks one single moment’s pause. Incessantly,by day and night, Unseen, unheard it rushes …
HUMILITY The Apostle Paul was always deeply conscious of the immeasurable debt he owed to the amazing grace of God. That he was an Apostle and had received his high calling in a unique way from the ascended Christ never encouraged him to give way to pride. Writing in the first of his letters to …
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST Extracts from A Manual of Theology by J. L. Dagg (1794-1884) JESUS CHRIST WAS A MAN John 1.14; Phil. 2.7,8; Heb. 2.14-17; Mark 9.12; 1 Tim. 2.5; Matt. 1.18-25; Luke 1.28-35; Gal. 4.4; Matt. 4.2; 21.18; John 4.6,10; Matt. 5.24; 21.18; Mark 9.12; Isaiah 53.3; John 11.35; Luke 19.41; Matt. 26.37,38; …
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones
BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT Extracts from The Beatitudes by Thomas Watson first published in 1660. Various observations 1. Observe the divinity in this sermon, which goes beyond all philosophy. The philosophers used to say that one contrary expels another; but here one contrary begets another. Poverty is wont to expel riches, but here …