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27 DECEMBER (PREACHED NEW YEAR’S EVENING 1774) Citizens of Zion ‘They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.’ Jeremiah 50:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 87:1–7 Zion represents the church of God. It has twoContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 26th Placed in the light If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, … the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John 1:7. To mistake conscious freedom from sin for deliverance from sin by the Atonement is a great error. No man knows whatContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 26 “Sit ye here while I go and pray yonder.” (Matt. 26:36.) IT is a hard thing to be kept in the background at a time of crisis. In the Garden of Gethsemane eight of the eleven disciples were left to do nothing. Jesus went to the front to pray; Peter, James and JohnContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

26 DECEMBER (PREACHED NEW YEAR’S EVENING 1774) An appeal from the heart ‘They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.’ Jeremiah 50:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Thessalonians 2:1–16 If ever a sense of theContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 25th His birth and our new birth Behold, a virgin shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Isaiah 7:14 (R.V.). His Birth in History. “Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God”Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”