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• 23:45, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,032)‎ . . N No being in the universe ‎ (Created page with "====No being in the universe==== can compel us to do wrong "When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed h...") (current)
• 23:44, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+774)‎ . . N Is His silence a refusal? ‎ (Created page with "====Is His silence a refusal?==== "Jesus did not answer her a word." Matthew 15:23 Our Lord sometimes yet seems to be silent to His people when they cry to Him. To all thei...") (current)
• 23:44, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+839)‎ . . N Everything is beautiful in its time ‎ (Created page with "====Everything is beautiful in its time==== "He has made everything beautiful in its time." Ecclesiastes 3:11 Everything is beautiful in its time — but out of time, the...") (current)
• 23:43, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+503)‎ . . N Death' ‎ (Created page with "====Death==== Death only sweeps away the limitations, breaks down the walls, shatters the crust of mortality, washes out the stains — and then life expands into perfect fr...") (current)
• 23:43, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+619)‎ . . N The blessing comes through the serving ‎ (Created page with "====The blessing comes through the serving==== When God sends you one to love who becomes a burden upon your heart, who calls for sacrifice, service, patient care, and thoug...") (current)
• 23:42, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+634)‎ . . N Speaking the truth in love ‎ (Created page with "====Speaking the truth in love ==== " Speaking the truth in love " Ephesians 4:15 We should never criticize or correct — except in love. If we find ourselves in anger,...") (current)
• 23:42, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+864)‎ . . N The transforming touch! ‎ (Created page with "====The transforming touch!==== Someone tells of going into a jeweler's store to look at certain gems. Among other stones, he was shown an opal. As it lay there, however,...") (current)
• 23:41, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+497)‎ . . N Look close about our feet ‎ (Created page with "====Look close about our feet==== When we are resolving to live more grandly in the future than in the past — it will help us if we bring our eyes down from the far-off mo...") (current)
• 23:41, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,298)‎ . . N Peace is a high attainment ‎ (Created page with "====Peace is a high attainment==== In all departments of life, it is the quiet forces which are most influential. The sunbeams fall all day long, silently, unheard by huma...") (current)
• 23:41, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+782)‎ . . N How good is a timely word! ‎ (Created page with "====How good is a timely word!==== We have an errand to each one with whom we are permitted to hold even the briefest and most casual conversation. What it is, we may not kn...") (current)
• 23:40, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+691)‎ . . N No day is commonplace ‎ (Created page with "====No day is commonplace==== One's vocation is never a far-off possibility; it is always for the present — the simple round of duties which the passing hour brings. Som...") (current)
• 23:39, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+629)‎ . . N Defeats in life ‎ (Created page with "====Defeats in life==== Defeats in life should never detain us long, since only faith and courage are needed to change them into real victories. For, after all, it is char...") (current)
• 23:39, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+896)‎ . . N Christ alone can make ‎ (Created page with "====Christ alone can make anyone truly a "fisher of men." ==== "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men." Matthew 4:19 We cannot become "fishers of men", just as we b...") (current)
• 23:38, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+743)‎ . . N The Gate of Life ‎ (Created page with "====The Gate of Life==== If we are true believers in Christ — then dying is but leaving darkness and sin and danger — to pass into light and holiness and safety. A poe...") (current)
• 23:38, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+950)‎ . . N It shall accomplish ‎ (Created page with "====It shall accomplish that which I purpose==== "So shall My Word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purp...") (current)
• 23:37, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,075)‎ . . N Those who sow in tears ‎ (Created page with "====Those who sow in tears==== " Those who sow in tears — will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow — will return with songs of joy, car...") (current)
• 23:37, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+719)‎ . . N Christ continually comes ‎ (Created page with "====Christ continually comes in unrecognized ways==== "When a Samaritan woman came to draw water . . . " John 4:7 The way of duty , is always the surest place to come upon...") (current)
• 23:37, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+743)‎ . . N Our eyes did not discern ‎ (Created page with "====Our eyes did not discern the brightness==== The light of human joy wanes; our health gives way; disappointments come; sorrow breaks in upon us; some human trust...") (current)
• 23:36, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+839)‎ . . N The bane of spiritual good ‎ (Created page with "====The bane of spiritual good==== Unbroken worldly prosperity is the bane of spiritual good . For one thing, it hinders growth in knowledge and experience. There are trut...") (current)
• 23:35, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+36)‎ . . Christian Character ‎ (→‎UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
• 23:34, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,080)‎ . . N It is impossible to avoid worrying ‎ (Created page with "====It is impossible to avoid worrying==== Someone may say that it is impossible to avoid worrying . The disturbing experiences will come into our lives — and we cannot s...") (current)
• 23:33, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+722)‎ . . N Until we begin ‎ (Created page with "====Until we begin to do what it teaches==== We never get to understand the Bible, merely by studying it. It will not reveal itself to us, until we begin to do what it teach...") (current)
• 23:33, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+930)‎ . . N No wonder husbands ‎ (Created page with "====No wonder husbands and wives drift==== apart in such homes! We keep sad silences ofttimes with those who are dearest to us, even when their hearts are crying out for wo...") (current)
• 23:32, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+815)‎ . . N The richest blessings ‎ (Created page with "====The richest blessings==== God is continually blessing us, by allowing us not to do certain things which we greatly desire to do. He thwarts our worldly ambitions, becaus...") (current)
• 23:32, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+968)‎ . . N Our little nothings ‎ (Created page with "====Our little nothings==== "Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me!" Matthew 25:40 The moralist does right things — but witho...") (current)
• 23:31, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+674)‎ . . N Truth must be wrought ‎ (Created page with "====Truth must be wrought==== into the very grain and fiber of his manhood The active virtues must be cultivated, as well as the passive . Meekness — must not become weak...") (current)
• 23:31, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+683)‎ . . N True repentance ‎ (Created page with "====True repentance==== True repentance is not merely a little twinge of remorse over some evil thing. It is not simply a gush of tears at the recollection of some wickedn...") (current)
• 23:31, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,004)‎ . . N A miracle ‎ (Created page with "====A miracle of transformation ==== It would not be hard to take an angel and train him into a glorious messenger; but to take such a sinful man as Simon-Peter, or as Saul,...") (current)
• 23:30, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+501)‎ . . N Dying grace ‎ (Created page with "====Dying grace ==== Many people dread death, and fear that they can never meet it with triumph; but God does not give grace for victorious dying — when one's duty is to li...") (current)
• 23:30, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+602)‎ . . N Choosing our friends ‎ (Created page with "====Choosing our friends ==== It is a sacred thing to take a new friend into our life. We accept a solemn responsibility when we do so. We do not know what burdens we may...") (current)
• 23:30, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+818)‎ . . N Out of its bitterness ‎ (Created page with "====Out of its bitterness will come sweet fruit! ==== Our "thorn" may either be a blessing to us — or it may do us irreparable harm — depending on our attitude towards it...") (current)
• 23:29, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+693)‎ . . N If He were here Himself ‎ (Created page with "====If He were here Himself ==== If we have the true servant spirit of Christ in our hearts — it will work out in Christly ministry; it will lead to the brightening of one...") (current)
• 23:29, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,211)‎ . . N Love's ministry ‎ (Created page with "====Love's ministry==== "Serve one another in love." Galatians 5:13 There is need everywhere for love's ministry . The world today needs nothing more than true Christliken...") (current)
• 23:28, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+902)‎ . . N Immeasurably ‎ (Created page with "====Immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine!==== God never gives all He has to give. The time never comes when He has nothing more to bestow. We never reach the best in...") (current)
• 23:28, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+497)‎ . . N We are both better ‎ (Created page with "====We are both better and worse==== than others think us to be We are both better and worse than others think us to be . The best things in holy lives do not flash their...") (current)
• 23:27, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+936)‎ . . N Private prayer ‎ (Created page with "====Private prayer==== There are some people who claim that they can pray and commune with God just as well in one place as in another. They do their praying while they walk...") (current)
• 23:27, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+891)‎ . . N What a beautiful thought of dying! ‎ (Created page with "====What a beautiful thought of dying! ==== "Simeon took the child in his arms and praised God, saying: Sovereign Lord, now let Your servant die in peace, as You have promis...") (current)
• 23:27, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+816)‎ . . N Don't do it! ‎ (Created page with "====Don't do it!==== "Therefore I tell you, do not worry!" Matthew 6:25 "So do not worry!" Matthew 6:31 "Don't worry about anything!" Philippians 4:6 When you are incline...") (current)
• 23:26, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+884)‎ . . N The piety which best pleases Christ ‎ (Created page with "====The piety which best pleases Christ==== When we get to Heaven we shall find heavenly work to do. But for the present, our duty is here in the midst of this world — and...") (current)
• 23:26, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+623)‎ . . N A beautiful, wise, ‎ (Created page with "====A beautiful, wise,==== noble, happy, and useful old age! All earthly life is a time for gathering . Not a day should pass when we do not lay up something for the future...") (current)
• 23:26, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+919)‎ . . N We need to be on our guard ‎ (Created page with "====We need to be on our guard==== perpetually against little sins It is said that one of the great prisons of this country was built by the prisoners themselves. They dres...") (current)
• 23:25, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,301)‎ . . N The comfort of sympathy ‎ (Created page with "====The comfort of sympathy==== "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as...") (current)
• 23:25, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+922)‎ . . N The merciful hand ‎ (Created page with "====The merciful hand of God laid on us==== The trouble which touches us, is the merciful hand of God laid on us — to lead us back to our place of safety and blessedness a...") (current)
• 23:25, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+712)‎ . . N Spiritual longing ‎ (Created page with "====Spiritual longing==== "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God!" Psalm 42:1-2 Spiritual lo...") (current)
• 23:24, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+708)‎ . . N Devotion to God ‎ (Created page with "====Devotion to God==== — fits us for service to men! We must listen at Heaven's gates — before we can go out to sing the heavenly songs in the ears of human weariness...") (current)
• 23:24, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+973)‎ . . N The way to make our lives ‎ (Created page with "====The way to make our lives eternal successes==== "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me will find it." Matthew 16:25 People...") (current)
• 23:24, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,144)‎ . . N That is the very best ‎ (Created page with "====That is the very best==== which the richest human love can do "Seeing them straining at the oars, for the wind was against them, at about the fourth watch of the night...") (current)
• 23:18, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1)‎ . . We are too stinting ‎ (→‎We are too stinting of our heart's gifts) (current)
• 23:17, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,028)‎ . . N We are too stinting ‎ (Created page with "====We are too stinting of our heart's gifts==== We are too stinting of our heart's gifts . God has given us love, that with it we may make life sweeter, better, easier, tru...")
• 23:17, 20 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+876)‎ . . N The transfigured life ‎ (Created page with "====The transfigured life==== There is a little prayer in one of the Psalms, which says, "May the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us!" It is not too high a prayer for any...") (current)

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