Category Archives: Bible

18 DECEMBER Our nearest kinsman ‘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: Hebrews 2:5–18 The Messiah must not only be a man, but partaker of our very nature. It had been easy to divineContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 17th Redemption creates the need it satisfies But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him. 1 Cor. 2:14. The Gospel of God creates a sense of need of the Gospel. Paul says—“If our gospel be hid, it is hid”—to those who are blackguards?Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 17 “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it.” (1 Thess. 5:23, 24.) MANY years since I saw that “withoutContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

17 DECEMBER Perfectly Man and perfectly God ‘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: Romans 5:12–21 This passage expressly and exclusively refers to the Messiah and is directly applied, as accomplished in him, byContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 16th Wrestling before God Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, … praying always … Eph. 6:13, 18. You have to wrestle against the things that prevent you from getting to God, and you wrestle in prayer for other souls; but never say that you wrestle with God in prayer, it isContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”