Category Archives: Bible

September 22 “And the Lord said … Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” (Luke 22:31, 32.) OUR faith is the center of the target at which God doth shoot when He tries us; and if any oterContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

22 SEPTEMBER (PREACHED 22 SEPTEMBER 1782) Deliverance comes from God ‘Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.’ Judges 5:18SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Judges 5:1–18 War, with all its calamities, is the effect of sin. Relief and deliverance from those calamities are to beContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

September 21st Missionary predestination And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be His servant. Isaiah 49:5. The first thing that happens after we have realized our election to God in Christ Jesus is the destruction of our prejudices and our parochial notions and our patriotisms; we are turned into servantsContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

September 21 “I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord.” (Phil. 3:8.) THIS is the happy season of ripening cornfields, of the merry song of the reapers, of the secured and garnered grain. But let me hearken to the sermon of the field. This is itsContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

21 SEPTEMBER (PREACHED OLNEY FAIR DAY) How willing Jesus is to save ‘And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, accordingContinue reading “365 days with Newton”