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You are walking down the street one day, when suddenly you hear your name called. You look around---nobody there. So you walk on a little further and you hear your name called again so you look up in the tree where someone seems to be speaking. Nobody there. A third time your name is called, and bef... Read More

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 Jesus promises that if we follow him we don't have to wait until we die or until he comes back in glory to enter heaven. Heaven begins now. "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will ... Read More

A Word For Christmas Eve Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was an island in the middle of the ocean called Penal Island. All the people who lived on this island were prisoners. They had no idea how they got there, but they knew that there was no escape. The people who lived on this island, lik... Read More

1. Among all the Songs entitled the Song of degrees, this Psalm has a further addition in the title, that it is Solomon's. For thus it is entitled, A Song of degrees of Solomon. It has therefore aroused our attention, and caused us to enquire the reason of this addition, of Solomon. For it is needle... Read More

"By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." (Romans 5:2) A very precious cluster of new covenant truths from the land of spiritual promise is set before us in the portion I have read for our meditation this morning, which has been... Read More

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a Merchantman, seeking goodly pearls: who, when He had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that He had, and bought it." (Matthew 13:45,46) THERE are characteristic chapters in God's most Holy Word which we can never forget, neither can we lose... Read More

“O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.” Jeremiah 10:23 Jeremiah knew the Lord, yet felt utterly dependent upon Him. The Lord’s approval is with those who are dependent upon Him, who seek counsel from the mouth of the Lord. Because of o... Read More

A. THE WORD OF GOD 1. Nature of the Word of God (1) As to its voice – The Bible is the voice of God, 2 Tim. 3:16, speaking through men as his own words, Ex. 4:12; Jer. 1:9, as though God himself had uttered these words, Acts 3:21; Ex. 4:15-16 (2) As to its veracity – The word of God is truth, John 1... Read More

"I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture."--John 10:9 There is a finding pasture in PROVIDENCE. A sweet and healthy pasture indeed this is--to watch the Lord's providential dealings with us spread through a long series of years. It is se... Read More

A Devotional Commentary on the Gospels Arranged for family devotions, for every day in the year. By Favell Lee Mortimer (1802—1878) JULY 1 John 9:6-23. Christ directs the blind man to wash in Siloam. There were many reasons that might have deterred the Savior from curing the blind man. It was the Sa... Read More