Category Archives: Bible

December 25 “His name shall be called Emmanuel. …God with us.” (Matt. 1:23.) “The Prince of Peace.” (Isa. 9:6.) For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King.” A FEW years ago a striking Christmas card was published, with the title, “If Christ had not come.” It was founded upon our Saviour’s words, “If I hadContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

25 DECEMBER (PREACHED CHRISTMAS DAY 1777) Born King ‘Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.’ Matthew 2:2SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 2 Peter 1:16–21 The Lord knows his people and will find means that they, however circumstanced, shall comeContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 24th The hidden life Your life is hid with Christ in God. Col. 3:3. The Spirit of God witnesses to the simple, almighty security of the life hid with Christ in God, and this is continually brought out in the Epistles. We talk as if it were the most precarious thing to live theContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 24 “And Isaac went out to meditate in the fields at eventide.” (Gen. 24:63.) WE should be better Christians if we were more alone; we should do more if we attempted less, and spent more time in retirement, and quiet waiting upon God. The world is too much with us; we are afflicted withContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

24 DECEMBER God with us ‘Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.’ Isaiah 7:14SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: John 20:24–31 As fallen creatures, God is against us and we are against him. But in the Messiah he is reconciled—God withContinue reading “365 days with Newton”