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Paris Reidhead

Develop Your Full Potential in Christ: Magnitude of Grace

Paris ReidheadDevelop Your Full Potential in Christ: Magnitude of Grace By Paris Reidhead* Brother Jones we are so glad you’re here today, glad the Lord has given you strength to be with us. Having you here is such a benediction and blessing. Knowing that you are praying that our Brother Jones is going to just ha... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Essential Newness of the New Creation - Part 1

T. Austin-Sparks"Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, which thou hast not known. They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, behold, I knew them" (Isa... Read More
T. Austin-Sparks

The Starting Point For The Working Of God

T. Austin-SparksReading: 1 Corinthians 1:18 to 2:2. "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." Where is the wise? where... Read More
Thomas Brooks

The first step towards heaven

Thomas Brooks"It is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick." Matthew 9:12 If you would be truly godly, then you must see how bad you are, how vile, how sinful, how wretched you are. No man begins to be good until he sees himself to be bad. Ah! You must see yourselves . . . to be children of wrath, to... Read More
John Chrysostom

Homily 27 on Romans

John ChrysostomRom. XIV. 25-27 Now to Him that is of power to establish you according to my Gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest, and (manuscripts τε which Sav. omits) by the Scriptures of the Pro... Read More
John Chrysostom

Homily on the Paralytic Let Down Through the Roof

John Chrysostom1. Having lately come across the incident of the paralytic who lay upon his bed beside the pool, we discovered a rich and large treasure, not by delving in the ground, but by diving into his heart: we found a treasure not containing silver and gold and precious stones, but endurance, and philosophy,... Read More
Richard Baxter

The Nature of the Saints' Rest

Richard BaxterFrom heaven's height the soul surveys the Promised Land. Looking back on earth, the soul views the dreary wilderness through which it passed. To stand on Mount Memory, comparing heaven with earth, fills the soul with unimaginable gratitude, and makes it exclaim: "Is this the inheritance that cost so... Read More
Richard E. Bieber

DISCERNING HIS PRESENCE

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him. And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors avid sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees sa... Read More
Richard E. Bieber

FREEDOM

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. One of the arguments raised by people outside the faith, when they look at followers of Jesus who seem to be serious, is that they're brainwashed. They're puppets. They're running in a pack like a bunch of wild dogs and they don't have minds of thei... Read More
Richard E. Bieber

Holy Proximity

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits Eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and the revive the heart of the contrite." Isaiah 57:15 Jesus is walking down the road su... Read More

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