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3 DECEMBER (PREACHED CHRISTMAS EVENING 1769) Lost to God ‘For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.’ Luke 19:10SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Isaiah 1:2–8 A sinner may be described as lost to God. He made us and he made us for himself, for his own service, for hisContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 2nd Christian perfection Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect.… Phil. 3:12. It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements is apt to be thatContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 2 “Perfect through suffering.” (Heb. 2:10.) STEEL is iron plus fire. Soil is rock, plus heat, or glacier crushing. Linen is flax plus the bath that cleans, the comb that separates, and the flail that pounds, and the shuttle that weaves. Human character must have a plus attached to it. The world does notContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

2 DECEMBER (PREACHED CHRISTMAS EVENING 1769) Lost ‘For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.’ Luke 19:10SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Matthew 1:18–21 The return of this day has by long custom been observed as a commemoration of the coming of Christ in the flesh. But how is itContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 1st The law and the gospel For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10. The moral law does not consider us as weak human beings at all, it takes no account of our heredity and infirmities, it demands that we be absolutelyContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”