psalm-90:12

I am convinced that young people are thoughtless about six important issues in life. These are issues that, within five years after their teens, they will have wished they had not only thought about while in their teens but had also made them top priority in their thinking. 1. Youth are thoughtless ... Read More

(No. 59) Held at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. On Tuesday Night, December 31, 1855, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON If it be enquired why I held a Watch-night, let the answer be--because I hoped that the Lord would own the service, and thus souls might be saved. I have preached at all hours the gospe... Read More

The Three Spheres of Future Glory. THERE is still something more to learn concerning the dispensations before we can rightly understand the unique position and wonderful teaching of the later Pauline Epistles written from the prison in Rome. These dispensations are commonly spoken of as: two, the ol... Read More

I print the Psalms as poetry; they are so in Hebrew. G.V.W. [Publisher's note: In Present Testimony the Psalms are rendered in full as the Authorised Version, here only the notes are reproduced.] First Book (Pss. 1 - 51) "The faithful are looked at as not yet driven out from Jerusalem; hence covenan... Read More

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." The scene of the divine handiwork was twofold; and, accordingly, "in the dispensation of the fulness of times," God will display Himself again, both in heaven and on earth. I would begin my meditation on this divine subject with Genesis 1 - 47... Read More

Turn in your Bible with me, if you will, to 2 Peter chapter 3. We're coming back to part 2 in our series on the certainty of the Second Coming, as we work our way through 2 Peter. To establish again in our minds this wonderful text, I would like to read for you verses 1 through 9...2 Peter chapter 3... Read More

Direction Tenth. The Several Pieces of the Whole Armour of God. Sixth Piece--The Christian's Sword. 'And the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God' (Eph. 6:17). Here we have the sixth and last piece in the Christian's panoply brought to our hand--a sword; and that of the right make--'the swo... Read More

Q-19: WHAT IS THE MISERY OF THAT ESTATE WHEREINTO MAN FELL? A: All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever. 'And were by nature children of wrath.' Eph 2:2. A... Read More

The Continuing City Francis Bourdillon , 1881 "For here we have no continuing city — but we seek the city that is to come." Hebrews 13:14 Part of this verse is true of all — but the other part is true of some people only. It is true of all — that here we have no continuing city. It is not true of al... Read More

Yours No Longer! Francis Bourdillon , 1873 You had something a short time ago which you have not now, and never can have again. I do not say that you have lost it. Perhaps you have, and perhaps you have not. But, be that how it may—the thing is gone. A very few hours ago it was yours. But you went t... Read More