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Use V. Containing a Christian Directory, or Rules about Contentment. I proceed now to an use of direction, to show Christians how they may attain to this divine art of contentation. Certainly it is feasible, others of God's saints have reached to it. St Paul here had it; and what do we think of thos... Read More

The Risen Christ and the Things Above By Horatius Bonar, 1867 "If (or--since), then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden wi... Read More

Thoughts on the Christian Life; or, Leaves from Letters Hetty Bowman, 1872 INTRODUCTORY NOTE Under the touching circumstances of the early and lamented death of her who wrote this volume, I cannot refuse a request made to me, that I should write a few prefatory lines. The name of "Hetty Bowman" is n... Read More

Victory over the World! George Everard, 1866 "Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life!" Revelation 2:10 The promises in Scripture are made to conquerors . Grace in the heart conquers a believer's foes — and then grace places on his head the crown of life. In the Epistles to th... Read More

The Vanity of the World! Ezekiel Hopkins, 1663 "Vanity of Vanities, says the Preacher. Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity!" Ecclesiastes 1:2 The Preacher here mentioned, is no less a person than King Solomon—and this whole book is no other than his Recantation Sermon. The text he preached on, is the ... Read More

JEWELS from JAMES (Choice devotional selections from the works of John Angell James) We must learn it by painful experience! The death of Christian friends should impress us with, even as it shows us—the vanity of the world . All that poetry ever wrote, even the most mournful, beautiful, and pensive... Read More

DUTIES OF CHURCH MEMBERS by John Angell James These are so numerous and various, that they must be classed under different heads. I do not now intend so much those duties, which they owe in common to God as Christians—as those which they owe to the church, as members. If I was speaking of the former... Read More

The Footsteps of Jesus Things to be sought — and things to be shunned . By John MacDuff, 1856 PREFACE Whatever things were written aforetime in the sacred volume — were written for our instruction and admonition. The precepts it inculcates, and the diversified incidents it records — were evidently i... Read More

Living the Christian Life Al Martin A question of major importance is "How am I to live as a Christian?" It is one thing to be certain on biblical grounds that I have life from Christ, now I must be clear as to how I am to live the life of Christ. My purpose in setting before you some of the major p... Read More

The Two Most Important Questions Al Martin The following devotions will focus on giving a clear biblical answer to the two most important questions any human being can ever ask. The two questions are: (1) What must I do to be saved? and (2) How can I know for certain that I am saved? If these are in... Read More