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The British holiday, celebrated with fireworks and bonfires, commemorates the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.JESSE GREENSPAN Observed in the United Kingdom every year on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day—also called Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night—commemorates a failed assassination attempt from over 400 years ago. On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes and a group of radicalContinue reading “Guy Fawkes Day: A Brief History”

April 25th Instant in season Be instant in season, out of season. 2 Tim. 4:2. Many of us suffer from the morbid tendency to be instant “out of season.” The season does not refer to time, but to us. “Be instant in season, out of season,” whether we feel like it or not. If weContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

April 25 “And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.” (Matt. 27:61) HOW strangely stupid is grief. It neither learns nor knows nor wishes to learn or know. When the sorrowing sisters sat over against the door of God’s sepulchre, did they see the two thousand years that haveContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

25 APRIL (PREACHED 23 APRIL 1775) ‘Just so’ with God ‘Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.’ 2 Samuel 23:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING:Continue reading “365 days with Newton”

April 24th The warning against wantoning Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you. Luke 10:20. As Christian workers, worldliness is not our snare, sin is not our snare, but spiritual wantoning is, viz.: taking the pattern and print of the religious age we live in, making eyes at spiritual success.Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”