Consider Jesus – in Lowliness of BirthHow truly did the Son of God identify Himself with the humanity and the curse He came to ransom and remove...
Devotedness to GodEach has some appointed work to perform, some little niche in the spiritual temple to occupy. Yours may be no splendid services, no flaming or brilliant actions to blaze and dazzle in the eye of man...
My heart is fixedYou are settled by having an object that controls your heart. Christ is that object ...
Our refuge in temptationForty days and forty nights enclosed with the devil in the wilderness...
The wilderness historyIt is a great thing to know where you are historically. The wilderness journey is to teach us two things...
Why the Saviour sufferedThe wedding dowry that John Bunyan’s wife brought to him consisted of two books. They were of greater value to him than thousands of gold and silver ...
I don't want itA mother had taught her little boy, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want,” as a morning text, and in the evening she asked him if he could repeat it. He immediately complied with, “The Lord is my Shepherd, so I don't want it.” ...
Submission in TrialThe life of Jesus was one long martyrdom. From Bethlehem’s manger to Calvary’s cross, there was scarce one break in the clouds; these gathered more darkly and ominously around him...
CompassionWhat a pattern to his people—the tender compassion of Jesus! Jesus found the world he came to save a moral Bethesda ...
The Returning Backslider (2)Beloved, have you fallen? Have you erred? Have you backslidden? Have you lost the sweet sense of divine favor, the happy consciousness of acceptance with God? If so, what are you to do? ...