“Do you know what’s wrong with us? Many of us, we’ve been robbed of our inheritance… When I read the Puritans, When I read the Reformers, when I read the early Baptists and the early Presbyterians, the Dutch reformed guys, the early guys that didn’t have to deal with so many heretical movements about the … Continue reading To Know Him, His Life, His Power
“Christ is building His kingdom with earth’s broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms. But God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those in who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth’s broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take … Continue reading Christ is Building His Kingdom
“Have you never heard of the man who lost his way one night, and came to the edge of a precipice, as he thought, and in his own apprehension fell over the cliff? He clutched at an old tree, and there hung, clinging to his frail support with all his might. He felt persuaded that, … Continue reading Fall Into The Arms of Jesus
Some of the dying sayings of Mary Winslow: “Oh, how full His heart is of love I cannot express to you… I feel His sensible Presence. He is near to me; so near, that I feel as if I could embrace Him… No tongue can tell how I love Jesus… who shed His blood to … Continue reading Keep Close Intimacies With Jesus
“If you have intelligence, if you have been rightly trained, you can understand the Scriptures in a sense, and you can lay them out before others. You can present all the arguments, you can put the case for a kind of Christian philosophy. And it may sound wonderful… knowledge of the facts is not enough. … Continue reading Power From On High
“He knows the number of the hairs of our head… so intimate is His knowledge of us, that our lying down and our rising up, our thoughts and our ways, are all continually before Him… If God so values me, so knows me, that He counts the very hairs of my head, ought I not … Continue reading He Knows
“In our blindness we approach Him with suspicious reserve. We ask how much of our fun He intends to spoil, how much He will demand from us… If we had the least notion of His loving-kindness and tender mercy… His generosity, His beautiful plans for us; if we knew how patiently He waits for our … Continue reading If We Only Knew
“Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made; Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade; To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry; Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky.” … Continue reading The Love of God
“Behold your present standing, believer in Christ! Turn your eye away from all your failures in obedience, the flaws and imperfections that mark your sincere endeavors to serve Christ and to glorify God, and see where your true acceptance is: even in the Beloved… The Lord our righteousness. ’Accepted in the Beloved’ is the … Continue reading Accepted in The Beloved
“The hammer of the law breaks, but the heart, when thus broken, is like a broken flint, every bit of which is still flint… An old divine says that when the law creates repentance the tears are hard as hailstones in the sinner’s eyes, and I believe it is so. But when the gospel makes … Continue reading The Love of Jesus