Sermons & Devotionals by Classic Christian Writings

Souls are perishing every day, and our own entrance into eternity cannot be far distant. Let us, like Mary, do what we can, and no doubt God will bless it, and reward us openly. Seek to be lamblike; without this, all your effort to do good to others will be as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Ge... Read More

God is measuring our lives, not by the measures and standards of our culture or our age. He is measuring them by our character and by our walk with Him. God and His Word are intensely practical. All of the great general principles in the kingdom of God are illustrated and judged on the basis of the ... Read More

Do you want God’s best? If you want God’s best, the first thing you have to do is make up your mind, that you do want God’s best. This is the basic, key decision. You have to want God’s best, and you have to decide that you will settle for nothing less than God’s best. God will not force this choice... Read More

O blessed day! when I shall rest with God! when I shall rest in the bosom of my Lord! when I shall rest in knowing, loving, rejoicing, and praising! when my perfect soul and body shall together perfectly enjoy the most perfect God! When God, who is love itself, shall perfectly love me, and rest in H... Read More

"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5). What is the relationship between meekness and inheriting the earth? Meekness is disinheriting, dispossessing and divestiture. Jesus who was God divested Himself of the glory of God and became man. "Who, being in very nature God, ... Read More

Many of God’s people are experiencing today more pressure in their lives than ever before. In today’s "pell-mell" living, with society spiraling downward, pressures are coming upon some of God’s people in a measure that threatens to overcome them. On a personal scale, there are increasing conflicts ... Read More

They Were Men of Faith Men God has used in revival ploughed and sowed in hope. They might sometimes go forth weeping, bearing precious seed, yet these were the tears of sorrow and compassion, not of despair; they knew that in due season they would reap if they fainted not, that their labour in the L... Read More

God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men, for men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up ... Read More

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventative. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil. Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no... Read More

Mighty is the power of prayer. Wonderful are its fruits. Remarkable things are brought to pass by men of prayer. Many are the wonders of prayer wrought by an Almighty hand. The evidences of prayer’s accomplishments almost stagger us. They challenge our faith. They encourage our expectations when we ... Read More

"In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us" (Rom. 8:37). Calvary means that Christ not only bore on that Tree your sins, but that He carried to the Tree the sinner--carried you there. When you come to the point of recognizing that God does not patch up the old life bu... Read More

In the golden days of evangelistic and revival song writing, various compilations were published including Celestial Songs. Included in Celestial Songs was a song based on 1 Chronicles 14:13-17, written by E. E. Hewitt (London: Pickering & Inglis, 167). Here is the first stanza: There’s a rustling i... Read More

"When the people complained, it displeased the Lord" (Numbers 11:1). It always does! Complaining is discontent with what God has given or allowed. Paul never complained, though he certainly must have been tempted to do so. Instead he testified that "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewit... Read More

"The Angel of the Lord smote Him, because He gave not God the glory" (Acts 12:23). Giving credit and honor to people and places or taking it to ourselves, when it justly belongs to God, is a folly of which we all have been guilty. It is a thoughtless offense. Nevertheless it grieves God and needs to... Read More

My heart needs Thee, O Lord, my heart needs Thee! No part of my being needs Thee like my heart. All else within me can be filled by Thy gifts. My hunger can be satisfied by daily bread. My thirst can be allayed by earthly waters. My cold can be removed by household fires. My weariness can be relieve... Read More

Structure. Time for others. Extensive Bible study. Regular quiet times. Long, in-depth conversations. These words describe days of a season in my life gone by. In those days I arose early, before punching the clock, for my routine, rarely-interrupted time of devotion and prayer. My after hours consi... Read More

Revival is for those who are backslidden in some way. Some are saying that our backslidden condition makes revival unlikely, even impossible today. This is like saying that we shouldn't look for rain anymore because the ground is so dry and hard! Surely the ground is dry and hard--everywhere. But th... Read More

"The Triumph of the Cross!" What a seeming contradiction! The Cross--beatings, mockings, injustice, false accusations, excruciating pain, death. But also triumph! Satan defeated, Salvation provided, resurrection, ascension, enthronement! We Christians who live almost 2000 years after all this took p... Read More

2 Corinthians 12:9 Whatever may be the particular call, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular path He wants you to tread—will you rise up and say in your heart, “Yes, Lord, I accept it. I submit, I yield. I pledge myself... Read More

We are forewarned by our Lord and Master that individual soul-winning is not easy work. It is plain hard work. It is the hardest work that God asks us to do for Him. Before trying to reason out why the simple extending to a fellow man of an invitation to share with us the joy of our salvation ought ... Read More