In Bible Thoughts & Themes Volume 2 Horatius Bonar takes us through the Gospels of the New Testament from Jesus the Seed of the Woman to The Tender Love of the Risen Christ. Each chapter is written is a devotional style, powerful and inspirational. Use this book as a daily devotional or a study guide to spark further reading. Topics covered by Bonar in this volume include: The Mighty Comforter, God's Free Love, Life in Looking to Jesus, The Filling up of Joy, And many, many more. Horatius Bonar was a Scottish churchman. poet, voluminous and highly popular author. In addition to many books and tracts wrote a number of hymns, including I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say and Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power.
The son of James Bonar, Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, he was born and educated in Edinburgh. He comes from a long line of ministers who have served a total of 364 years in the Church of Scotland. One of eleven children, his brothers John James and Andrew Alexander were also ministers of the Free Church of Scotland. He had married Jane Catherine Lundie in 1843 and five of their young children died in succession. Towards the end of their lives, one of their surviving daughters was left a widow with five small children and she returned to live with her parents. Bonar's wife, Jane, died in 1876. He is buried in the Canongate Kirkyard.
In 1853 Bonar earned the Doctor of Divinity degree at the University of Aberdeen.
He entered the Ministry of the Church of Scotland. At first he was put in charge of mission work at St. John's parish in Leith and settled at Kelso. He joined the Free Church at the time of the Disruption of 1843, and in 1867 was moved to Edinburgh to take over the Chalmers Memorial Church (named after his teacher at college, Dr. Thomas Chalmers). In 1883, he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.... Show more