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December 2 “Perfect through suffering.” (Heb. 2:10.) STEEL is iron plus fire. Soil is rock, plus heat, or glacier crushing. Linen is flax plus the bath that cleans, the comb that separates, and the flail that pounds, and the shuttle that weaves. Human character must have a plus attached to it. The world does notContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

2 DECEMBER (PREACHED CHRISTMAS EVENING 1769) Lost ‘For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.’ Luke 19:10SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Matthew 1:18–21 The return of this day has by long custom been observed as a commemoration of the coming of Christ in the flesh. But how is itContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 1st The law and the gospel For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10. The moral law does not consider us as weak human beings at all, it takes no account of our heredity and infirmities, it demands that we be absolutelyContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 1 “There remaineth, therefore, a rest to the people of God.” (Heb. 4:9.) The rest includes victory, “And the Lord gave them rest round about;… the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand.” (Joshua 21:44.) “He will beautify the meek with victory.” (Psalm 149:4.) (Rotherham, margin.) AN eminent Christian worker tells of hisContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

1 DECEMBER (PREACHED CHRISTMAS EVENING 1769) The coming of Christ ‘The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.’ Luke 19:10SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Matthew 9:9–13 Attentive observers of divine providence may often remark that very great events often arise from small and unthought-of occasions. What an important moment, whenContinue reading “365 days with Newton”