Sermons & Devotionals by Charles E. Cowman
Charles E. Cowman
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Charles E. Cowman
The Harp
"I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy" (2 Cor. 11:2) Weymouth How an old harper dotes on his harp! How he fondles and caresses it, as a child resting on his bosom! His life is bound up in it. But, see him tuning it. He grasps it firmly, strikes a chord with a sharp, quick blow; and while it... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Just Shall Live by Faith
"The just shall live by faith." (Heb. 10:38). Seemings and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part of the Christian life, but they are not all of it. Trials, conflicts, battles and testings lie along the way, and are not to be counted a... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Key to the Wind
"The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all" (Ps. 103:19). Some time since, in the early spring, I was going out at my door when round the corner came a blast of east wind--defiant and pitiless, fierce and withering--sending a cloud of dust before it. I was jus... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Lightest Cross
"And he went out carrying his own cross" (John 19:17). There is a poem called "The Changed Cross." It represents a weary one who thought that her cross was surely heavier than those of others whom she saw about her, and she wished that she might choose an other instead of her own. She slept, and in ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Living God
"O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee" (Dan. 6:20). How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of. We know it is written "the living God"; but in our da... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Lord is My Strength
"The Lord hath sent strength for thee" (Ps. 68.28, PBV). The Lord imparts unto us that primary strength of character which makes everything in life work with intensity and decision. We are "strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man." And the strength is continuous; reserves of power com... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Lord's Times
"Thou makest the outgoing of the morning and evening to rejoice" (Ps. 65:8). Get up early and go to the mountain and watch God make a morning. The dull gray will give way as God pushes the sun towards the horizon, and there will be tints and hues of every shade, that will blend into one perfect ligh... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Mountain After the Quake
"He maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth and his hands make whole" (Job 5:18). The ministry of a great sorrow. As we pass beneath the hills which have been shaken by the earthquake and torn by convulsion, we find that periods of perfect repose succeed those of destruction. The pools of calm wate... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Old Refiner
"He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver" (Mal. 3:3). Our Father, who seeks to perfect His saints in holiness, knows the value of the refiner's fire. It is with the most precious metals that the assayer takes the most pains, and subjects them to the hot fire, because such fires melt the met... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Path to Blessing
"To him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon because he hath wholly followed the Lord" (Deut. 1:36). Every hard duty that lies in your path, that you would rather not do, that it will cost you pain and struggle or sore effort to do, has a blessing in it. Not to do it, at whatever cost, is ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Power of Silence
"Be still, and know that I am God" (Ps. 46:10). Is there any note of music in all the chorus as mighty as the emphatic pause? Is there any word in all the Psalter more eloquent than that one word, Selah (Pause)? Is there anything more thrilling and awful than the hush that comes before the bursting ... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Prayer of Faith
"God that cannot lie promised" (Titus 1:2). Faith is not working up by will power a sort of certainty that something is coming to pass, but it is seeing as an actual fact that God has said that this thing shall come to pass, and that it is true, and then rejoicing to know that it is true, and just r... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Price of Freedom
"And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him" (Mark 9:26). Evil never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the sec... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Risen Lord
"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore" (Rev. 1:18). Flower! Easter lilies! speak to me this morning the same dear old lesson of immortality which you have been speaking to so many sorrowing souls. Wise old Book! let me read again in your pages of firm assurance tha... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Road Uphill
"Walking in the midst of the fire" (Daniel 3:25). The fire did not arrest their motion; they walked in the midst of it. It was one of the streets through which they moved to their destiny. The comfort of Christ's revelation is not that it teaches emancipation from sorrow, but emancipation through so... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Second Coming
"Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown" (Rev. 3:11). George Mueller bears this testimony, "When it pleased God in July, 1829, to reveal to my heart the truth of the personal return of the Lord Jesus, and to show me that I had made a great mistake in looki... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Secrets of Providence
"The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him" (Ps. 25:14). There are secrets of Providence which God's dear children may learn. His dealings with them often seem, to the outward eye, dark and terrible. Faith looks deeper and says, "This is God's secret. You look only on the outside; I can look... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
The Summer Will Come
"Therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you" (Isa. 30:18). Where showers fall most, there the grass is greenest. I suppose the fogs and mists of Ireland make it "the Emerald Isle"; and whenever you find great fogs of trouble, and mists of sorrow, you always find emerald green hea... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
There We Saw the Giants
"There we saw the giants" (Num. 13:33). Yes, they saw the giants, but Caleb and Joshua saw God! Those who doubt say, "We be not able to go up." Those who believe say, "Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able." Giants stand for great difficulties; and giants are stalking everywhere.... Read More
Charles E. Cowman
This Thing is From Me
"This thing is from me" (1 Kings 12:24). "Life's disappointments are veiled love's appointments." --Rev. C. A. Fox My child, I have a message for you today; let me whisper it in your ear, that it may gild with glory any storm clouds which may arise, and smooth the rough places upon which you may hav... Read More
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