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December 20 “Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.” (John 16:32.) IT need not be said that to carry out conviction into action is a costly sacrifice. It may make necessary renunciations and separations which leave one to feel a strange sense both of deprivation and loneliness. But he who willContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

20 DECEMBER (PREACHED 20 DECEMBER 1767) Oh, lonesome me! ‘And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.’ Isaiah 32:2SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 143:1–12 We have spokenContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 19th What to concentrate on I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34. Never be sympathetic with the soul whose case makes you come to the conclusion that God is hard. God is more tender than we can conceive, and every now and again He gives us the chance of beingContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 19 “It shall turn to you for a testimony.” (Luke 21:13.) LIFE is a steep climb, and it does the heart good to have somebody “call back” and cheerily beckon us on up the high hill. We are all climbers together, and we must help one another. This mountain climbing is serious business, butContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

19 DECEMBER He honoured the law ‘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: Philippians 2:5–11 The wonder rises unspeakably—this son of the virgin, shall be called Emanuel, God with us. The human nature ofContinue reading “365 days with Newton”