THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL John Bunyan Thus he went on his Way; … and behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful, and it stood just by the Highway side. So I saw in my dream, that he made haste and went forward, that if possible he might get …
Issue: Issue 8
LONG PRAYERS-AN EXHORTATION Maurice Roberts* It is noteworthy that Christ warns against the danger of making ‘long prayer’ in public (Matt. 23:14), but He gives no similar counsel with respect to brevity in prayer. Most prayer, as recorded in Scripture, is short and we are never encouraged to think of earnestness in prayer in terms …
One thing have I desired of the LORD that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the LORD and to enquire in his temple Psalm 27.4.
Count nothing strange but sin, and nothing hard to bear but the absence or anger of a gracious God. Bartholomew Ashwood (1622-78)
GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYER The following narrative was related by Mr. John Warburton, of Southill, at Rehoboth Chapel, Stotfold, on December 24th, 1876. The lad spoken of was known to Mr. Warburton, and I believe that he had the relation from his own lips. He was one of a family in good circumstances, and …
For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. – 2 Cor. 5.21
Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the Spirit – 1 Peter 3.18.
CALLING ON GOD On a communion Sabbath in the North, the felt presence of the Lord was so overpowering that the presiding minister found it difficult to speak. Many were melted down, for a ‘bright cloud had overshadowed them.’ Some time afterwards, a good man who was present remarked in his prayer that, at the …
RUN ASHORE UPON CHRIST I find Christ to be Christ, and that He is far, far, even infinite heaven’s height above man. And that is all our happiness. Sinners can do nothing but make wounds that Christ may heal them; and make debts, that He may pay them; and make falls, that He may raise …