Works are just before God to the extent that we seek to render worship and obedience to Him by them. J. Calvin
Issue: Issue 3
A STRONG TOWER Where can I place my trust But in the Lord my God? Where can I find security But in His holy Word? His name is my strong tower, His character as God, His grace and love and faithfulness Revealed in Christ the Lord. Righteous in Christ alone I run to my strong …
GREAT THINGS That day you were converted and brought home to God, you had a special right and title given you to all the creatures; you may look up to heaven and see the stars, and say, these are my Father’s candles; and when you hear the thunder, you may say, this is my Father’s …
Even amongst men, we see hewn stones, timber, and a hundred scattered parcels and pieces of a house, all under tools, hammers, and axes, and saws yet the house, the beauty and ease of so many lodgings and ease-rooms, we neither see nor understand for the present; these are but in the mind and head …
Ye have only these two shallow brooks, sickness and death, to pass through; and ye also have a promise, that Christ shall do more than meet you, even that He shall come Himself, and go with you, foot by foot, yea and bear you in His arms. O then! for he joy that is set …
“LIGHTS IN DARK PLACES” Notwithstanding the labours of Whitfield, Wesley and their colleagues, religion was still at a low ebb in England (this in the latter half of the Eighteenth Century). “The luxury, riot, debauchery, lust and madness of the age,” said a faithful preacher of the day, “could not be painted in colours equal …
I had also this consideration, that if I should now venture all for God, I engaged God to take care of my concernments; but if I forsook Him and His ways for fear of any trouble that should come to me or mine, then I should not only falsify my profession, but should count also …