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August 25th The fruitfulness of friendship I have called you friends. John 15:15. We never know the joy of self-sacrifice until we abandon in every particular. Self-surrender is the most difficult thing—‘I will if …!’ ‘Oh well, I suppose I must devote my life to God.’ There is none of the joy of self-sacrifice inContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

August 25 “Shut up to faith.” (Gal. 3:23.) GOD, in olden time suffered man to be kept in ward by the law that he might learn the more excellent way of faith. For by the law he would see God’s holy standard and by the law he would see his own utter helplessness; then heContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

25 AUGUST (PREACHED 20 JANUARY 1767 & 30 MAY 1779) The brightest rainbow on the darkest cloud ‘And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.’ Genesis 9:14SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Genesis 9:8–17 The rainbow is promised in the cloud and inContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

ANSWER Luke 16:19-31 contains the account of a very rich man who lived a life of extreme luxury. Laid outside the gate of this rich man’s house, however, was an extremely poor man named Lazarus who simply hoped “to eat what fell from the rich man’s table” (v. 21). The rich man was completely indifferentContinue reading “What should we learn from the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16?”

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.Continue reading “The Rich Man and Lazarus”