Category Archives: Bible

17 MAY Guidance: divine & DIY ‘And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.’ Genesis 8:11SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Nehemiah 2:11–18 We have the resting of the ark upon a mountain,Continue reading “365 days with Newton”

May 16th The habit of wealth Partakers of the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4. We are made partakers of the Divine nature through the promises; then we have to ‘manipulate’ the Divine nature in our human nature by habits, and the first habit to form is the habit of realizing the provision God has made.Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

May 16 “Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days.” (Dan. 10:12, 13) WE haveContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

16 MAY Fly to Jesus, the stronghold ‘And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.’ Genesis 8:11SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Genesis 7:24–8:12 Awful have been the effects of sin in everyContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

But two years before his conversion in 1837, a minor incident brought momentum to an inexorable process. Ryle was out shooting with his old Eton friend, Algernon Coote, and some others. In the course of the day, he swore in the hearing of Coote’s father, a keen Christian, who rebuked him sharply. Ryle never sworeContinue reading “An Account of the Conversion of J.C. Ryle”