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The Privilege of Worship
David was a man of many privileges bestowed on him in the goodness of his Lord.
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George H. Morrison
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The Gentleness of God--Part I
It will be generally agreed that David was one of the great men of the race.
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The Gentleness of God--Part II
What exactly may be meant by greatness is a question that we need not linger to discuss.
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The Gentleness of God--Part III
Take, for instance, that opening Scripture of Adam and of his sin and exile.
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Secret Faults
The secret faults of which the psalmist is speaking in this verse are the faults that are secret from even ourselves.
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Intimacy
When a man enjoys the friendship of the great, it is always considered an honorable thing.
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Waiting Upon God
In the great biblical thought of waiting upon God there are several interwoven strands of meaning, and it is well to try to distinguish some of these that...
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Beholding and Inquiring
In this verse, so full of riches, we have the spiritual ambition of the psalmist, and the notable thing is how his single purpose resolves itself into two...
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The Quality of Courage
There are three qualities, says Emerson in a familiar essay, which attract the wonder and reverence of mankind.
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Known in Adversities
One great comfort of assurance in this verse is that such knowledge is always very thorough.
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The Reach of His Faithfulness
The faithfulness of God is one of the strong truths of the Old Testament.
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The New Song
When anybody sings it is an outward token of an inward happiness. Despondent people very seldom sing.
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The Thirst for God
When the psalmist wrote this he was a fugitive in hiding somewhere across Jordan.
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Hope Thou in God
The psalmist here is not talking to an audience. He is talking to himself. "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Hope thou in God."
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To the Disheartened
It is one source of the eternal freshness of the Psalms that they tell the story of a struggling soul.
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Showing It Before Him
What the trouble of the psalmist was it is impossible for us to say. It was so bitter in its onset that his spirit was overwhelmed within him.
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The River of God
The Bible opens the history of man by showing him surrounded by a garden.
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The Ministry of Silence
There are certain voices which we never hear except when everything is silent. They reach us as a revelation of the stillness.
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Sincerity
There is a remarkable foreshadowing of the insight of Christ Jesus in these words.
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The Triumph of Trust
The value of a word and the power that it has over our hearts depends largely upon the man who speaks it and on the circumstances of its utterance.
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Daily Defilements
There are some enemies which only come to us at interludes. But you will note that it was different with the psalmist.
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Fear and Faith
Let us consider for a little while some of the springs of human fear, and then notice how many of our fears spring from the imagination.
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The Rock That Is Higher Than I
Whatever suggested the image of our text, the inward meaning of it is explicit.
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Leaving It There
There are times in life when it is a great help to have someone say to us, "Leave all that to me." Like a gentle wind it blows the clouds away.
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Harvest Thanksgiving
One of the uses of the harvest festival is to awaken us to things we take for granted.
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The Contradictions of Life
This psalm is the glad utterance of a soul that is looking back to the deliverance from Egypt.
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Summer and Winter
I suppose there are few who seriously doubt that the maker of summertime is God.
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The Higher Purposes of Winter
It is always easy to believe that God has made the summertime. There is something in a perfect summer day that speaks to us of the divine.
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The Highway in the Sea
Doubtless when the psalmist penned our text, his first thought was the crossing of the Red Sea.
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The Secrecy of God
Men tell us that there are few more impressive sights than that of a burial at sea.
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Drink From the Depths
The psalmist is here reviewing the providence of God that sustained the children of Israel in the desert.
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The Witness of Locality
The writer of this noble psalm is meditating upon the past of Israel. He is recalling the wonders of the Exodus.
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Limiting God
Sometimes we fall into the sin of limiting God to the greater hours of our life. I take it that all of us are so tempted.
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God's Self-Limitation
These words in their primary and historical reference refer to the taking captive of the Ark of God by the Philistines.
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Refusing to Go Back
To go back from God is to desert Him. It is to turn away the footsteps of our heart from Him.
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The Glorious Lamp of Heaven
A week or two ago, when we were all looking with interest towards the eclipse of the moon, I took up again a fascinating volume which I doubt that many of...
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The Perils of Middle Age
In all literature, the life of man is pictured under the symbol of a day.
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Self-Denial an Attitude of Worship
During worship there are certain demands made of every worshipper.
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Creation's Witness to the Youth of Jesus
By taking a bit of liberty with these poetic words, we shall apply them, without any prelude, to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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The Ignorance of the Expert
Had it been others who had rejected this stone, there would be no reason for surprise.
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The Call of the Hills
It is generally held by those who are competent to judge that this Psalm dates from the period of the exile.
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Forgiveness and the Cross
"In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins."
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The Gifts of Sleep
If we take the words of our text just as they stand, they are charged with deep and beautiful significance.
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The Searching of God
We are prone to associate the searching work of God with events of a striking or memorable kind.
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The Comfort of the Universal Presence
In the library of our university are certain old and interesting maps. They have all the charms of a geography which knows no limit save imagination.
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Still With Thee
A man whose religion is of a shallow kind is content with only an occasional acknowledgment of God.
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The Joy of Jesus
For all the sorrows that lay upon His heart and the heaviness of the cross He had to bear, there can be little question that Jesus impressed people as a...
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God Knows
It is often a deep relief in trouble to have someone with whom the grief may be shared.
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When the Spirit Is Overwhelmed
There are some natures more prone than others to this overwhelming of the spirit, but it wouldn't be true to say that the peril is limited to temperament.
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Reverence
John was a prisoner in the isle of Patmos when he had this revelation of Jesus Christ.
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White Raiment
The color white, which is so often mentioned in the Bible and always with an element of symbolism, is emblematical of purity.
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He Knocks
We are all familiar with the picture by a well-known artist which portrays Christ standing at the door.
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Consecration
The Baptism of Jesus Was Surrender to Vocation The baptism of our Lord was His self-consecration to His lifework.
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The Temptation of Jesus
Christ's Temptation: It Was Real Whatever view we take of the temptation--whether it was an inward struggle or an actual scene--the one thing to remember is...
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Christ's Temptation--How and When?
Jesus, as a Man, Was Tempted in Order to Show That No One Can Escape Temptation If our blessed Savior had to be the very Son of Man, it was, of course,...
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The Net Mender -- Part I
The God of all grace...
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The Net Mender -- Part II
The God of all grace... make you perfect--1Pe 5:10 It Is Distressing for It Misses What Is at Hand But not only is it a vital loss.
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The Two Worlds
Acceptance of the Material World When our Lord bids us pray for daily bread He accepts the visible world of space and time.
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The Wonder and Bloom of the World
Jesus Keenly Alive to the Message of Nature During the glorious days of June, when the world is so full of light and joy, it is an unspeakable satisfaction...
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The Candor of Christ
Jesus' Words Cannot Be Separated from His Person In the revived interest which is felt today in the person and character of Jesus Christ, it is inevitable...
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A Sermon for Springtide
The Ministry of Nature At the sweet and hopeful season of Spring, when freshness and beauty surround us, I am sure there are few of us whose thoughts do not...
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Putting First Things First
Necessity of Order The more narrowly one looks on life, the more one sees the necessity of order.
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The Restfulness of Christ
People Who Provide an Atmosphere of Restfulness There are some people we meet who impress us with a sense of restfulness.
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Enough!
Spirituality Is Conformity to Christ The highest praise that can be given to any man is that others, knowing him, should call him Christlike.
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Christ's Teaching on Providence
What Is Providence? The word providence is often on our lips, though perhaps not always with a clear conception of its meaning.
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The Sending of the Sword
Christ Came to Bring Both Peace and a Sword There seems to be a glaring contradiction between this word and some other words of Jesus.
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The Trifling Things of Life
The Importance of Little Things Every reader of the Gospel knows the stress which our Lord put on little things.
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Do We Look for Another?
The Finality of Our Christian Faith I wish to say a few words on the finality of our Christian faith, and there could be no better approach to that than the...
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The Decisiveness of Christ
In Jesus There Was Never Any Hesitancy There is one element in the character of Jesus which is well worthy of our consideration.
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The Timeliness of Christ
Thanksgiving in the Hour of Darkness and Seeming Failure Matthew never could forget the time at which these words were uttered.
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Surrender and Service
The Thought of Surrender There are, I think, three thoughts that meet and mingle in this beautiful figure of the yoke.
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Humility Interpreted by Christ
From Vice to Virtue It has been said that the greatest of all differences between ancient and modern morality is not the introduction of new virtues, but...
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Christ's Teaching On Man
The Expression of Compassion Originates with Christ Not very far away from where we sit there are gleaming the lights of our great city hospitals.
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The Lure of the Impossible
No Challenge to Handling That Which Is Easy Few things are so attractive as those which seem impossible.
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The Intolerance of Jesus
Christ Rejects Accusations Made against Him Our Lord had just performed a notable miracle healing a man who was possessed of a devil.
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The Dangers of Emptiness
Christ's Insight into Secret Failures Our Lord had a quick eye for moral tragedies, and in the pictorial setting of these two verses He has delineated one...
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The Pearl of Great Price
The Pearl in Ancient Times Although the pearl is still held in high esteem, it does not now occupy the place which once belonged to it.
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They Need Not Depart
The Christ of Every Occupation One recognises how in that crowd there would be folk of very various occupations. Every trade and calling would be there.
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Feeding the Five Thousand
The Only Miracle Recorded in All Four Gospels This is the only miracle recorded in each of the four Gospels, and we must take that as a token of the...
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The Lavishness of Jesus
Love Never Asks How Little Can I Do One of the characteristics of our Lord was a certain glorious lavishness, an uncalculating generosity that was impatient...
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Jesus Walking on the Sea
Jesus Felt the Necessity of Being Alone with God It had been a day of trial and stress for Jesus, and when the sun set, the danger was not over.
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Beginning to Sink
The Pathos of a Wasted Life There are two sights in human life which fill the heart with profound sorrow. The first is that of a person who has sunk.
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The Syrophoenician Woman
Jesus in Heathen Territory The first interest of this story lies in the fact that Jesus is now moving in heathen territory.
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The Cross and the World -- Part I
I, if I be lifted up...
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The Cross and the World -- Part II
I, if I be lifted up...
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Son of Man
The Name by Which Jesus Most Frequently Called Himself There are two names which our Lord was wont to use when He spoke about His person or His work.
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Elijah or Jeremiah
Elijah--A Prophet of Wrath; Jeremiah--A Prophet of Tears It is of the deepest interest to discover what was the common impression about Jesus, and in this...
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Founded on Rock
Christ Wanted to Be Understood To understand these words aright we must endeavour to recapture the right atmosphere.
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The Master Builder
Jesus Used the Term Church Only Twice Only on two occasions did our Lord use the word Church, here and in the eighteenth chapter, where He says, "Tell it to...
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The Transfiguration
Scenes on Mountains How often the Bible brings us into mountain scenery.
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The Child in the Midst
Jesus' Love for Children I want to speak on Jesus and the child to show you out of the Bible story how precious childhood was to Jesus Christ.
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How to Be Rid of Contempt
The Savage Are Characterized by Contempt of Others The spirit of contempt is very strongly developed among savage races.
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When the Child-Spirit Dies
Christlikeness Is Childlikeness It is a beautiful thought, of such are the kingdom of heaven.
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The Labourers in the Vineyard
The Divine Plan in the Ordering of Scripture Chapters As we move through chapter nineteen of Matthew's Gospel, we seem to breathe a different atmosphere...
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The Eleventh-Hour Man
Staying outside the Kingdom to the Last By the eleventh-hour man I mean the man who at five o'clock is still outside the Kingdom, and one would notice first...
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The Ambitious Disciples
A Promise Misunderstood The disciples had been pondering deeply, we may be sure, on the great promise Jesus had lately made to them--"When the Son of man...
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The Errand for the Ass
Bethphage Became Famous in Providing an Ass The village of Bethphage, which is here mentioned, lay in the immediate neighbourhood of Bethany.
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The Message of the Colt
Join the Procession Palm Sunday is the Sunday preceding Easter Day, which commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
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The Marriage Feast
Distinct from Luke's Parable The parable of the Great Supper recorded by St.
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The Frivolous Spirit
The King Was Earnest in His Invitation One thing that strikes us in this parable is the intense earnestness of the king.
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Mistaken Magnitudes
The Evil of Not Seeing Things in Their True Proportion It was one great complaint of our Lord against the Pharisees, that they had lost the relative...
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Respectable Sin
The Jewish Background The imagery of this denunciation would appeal powerfully to a Jewish audience.
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The Springs of Endurance
To Grow Bitter Is to Be Beaten He who is able to endure has learned one secret of the overcoming life.
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The Ten Virgins
The Tradition of a Jewish Wedding The ceremonies at a marriage in the East were very different from those we are accustomed to, and the more clearly we can...
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The Talents
Slaves Were Trusted Servants To understand this parable we must remember that the servants spoken of were really slaves.
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The Fact of Faithfulness
Faithfulness, a Test of Character One might dwell for a long time upon this parable without exhausting its message or its meaning.
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The Lowly Duty of Fidelity
Fidelity Can Be Anybody's Virtue It was very like our Lord to make fidelity the test of life. He was quick to recognise the lowly virtues.
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Judgment Part I
Preaching on the Judgment One always notices in time of revival that a great deal is preached about the Last Judgment.
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Judgment Part II
Can God Be Love and Punish? I fancy our other profound difficulty is this. How can God be love?
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The Anointing at Bethany
Jesus Was Calm on His Way to the Cross We are now approaching the last days of the earthly life of Jesus in our study of Matthew's Gospel, and our lesson...
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Love's Wastefulness
A Strange Deed Lives Forever The scene was Bethany, and the time was near the end. A few more days and the earthly life of Jesus would be over.
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The Lord's Supper
Christ's Perfect Composure What first impresses us in the narrative of the Lord's Supper is the perfect composure of the heart of Jesus.
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The Cry for Companionship
The Closest Disciples Sleep Most Often The scene was the Garden of Gethsemane, and all three disciples were asleep.
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On Making Allowances
To Forgive When Hurt Is Hard There are times when it is very hard to make allowances for other people. To forgive them seems a counsel of perfection.
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Jesus before Caiaphas
Jesus Had to Be Tried Twice Our Saviour had to undergo two trials, the one before the high priest, and the other before the Roman governor, and it is with...
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Jesus before Pilate
Pilate the Last Roman to Manage Jews By the Jewish law no sentence of death could be passed by night, and therefore, when the morning dawned (Mat 27:1), a...
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Which Is Your Answer?
Jesus Is Unavoidable One possible answer to this question is: I shall have nothing to do with Him at all. I shall ignore Him and pay no heed to Him.
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The Crown of Thorns
A Touch of Brotherhood Amid all the sufferings which Christ had to endure in the last and terrible days of His humility, none has more deeply moved the...
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The Great Refusal
The One Cup Jesus Refused to Drink It was a kindly provision of the Jews to give an opiate to the condemned.
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The Darkness at the Cross
When Jesus Was Born there Was Light, When He Died There Was Darkness It is notable that when our Lord was born there was a supernatural light across the sky.
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The Place Where the Lord Lay
The Grave Is Associated with Gladness One does not usually associate gladness with the grave. That is not the experience of men.
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Where They Found Him
Lost and Found--Sinner and Savior!
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The Touch That Reveals
We Reveal What We Are by What We Habitually Do It has been said that if we want to judge a person we should never do it by a single action; but if we must...
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Personality and Property
Christ's Presence Brought Disturbance into the House I propose today to cast some sidelights on this delightful and arresting miracle, and one is that when...
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Harvest Thoughts
Christ Introduces the Evidential Value of the Ordinary Harvest helps us to recapture the thought of God in the common things of nature.
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The Kind of Man He Was
He Was an Ordinary Man If we center our attention on this man we see him as a quite ordinary person.
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The Responsibility of Hearing
Frequent Emphasis on the Responsibility of Speaking On the responsibility attached to our speaking our Lord was never weary of insisting.
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Taking Him as He Was
Without What Some Thought as Necessary Provisions From the first verse of this chapter we infer that Christ had been teaching the people from the boat.
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The Ultimate Discovery
They Went Out Searching and They Lighted on Jesus As many of my readers are aware, there are no verses in the Greek New Testament.
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Why She Was Treated So
Why Didn't the Lord Let Her Go Unnoticed? One is ready to think it would have been kindlier treatment if our Lord had let this woman slip away.
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Sleep and Death -- Part I
This thy brother was dead, and is alive again--Luk 15:32 Death as a Fact and What Christ Thought of It I wish to speak for a little while on some of our...
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Sleep and Death -- Part II
This thy brother was dead, and is alive again--Luk 15:32 Jesus Spoke of Death as Sleep Dismissing that, then, we may advance a little if we remember Jesus'...
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What Jesus Learned at His Trade
We Learn from Our Trades Every man learns certain lessons from the trade in which he is engaged. Nobody is unaffected by his business.
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The Ministries of Leisure
Rest Helps Us See Things in Their Right Perspective Most of us, at this season of the year, are looking forward to a time of leisure.
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The Evident Christ
It Was Impossible to Conceal Christ Jesus was in retirement at this time. He had sought seclusion in the coasts of Tyre.
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The Category of Genius
Impossible to Think of Christ as Genius Among all the recent answers to this question, there is one that has obtained peculiar prominence.
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So Near and Yet So Far
Difficult to Estimate Crowds and Distances There are two things which it is very difficult for the uninstructed eye to gauge, the one is the dimensions of a...
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The Grace of Appreciation
Appreciation Alleviates Drudgery Few gifts are more helpful than the gift of appreciation.
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The Blessing of the Unexpected
His Physical Weakness Speaks of His Humanity I want you, please, to note the words that are employed in Mar 15:20-22.
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Misunderstood
Christ's Life Began and Ended in Misunderstanding We are here in the center of the Gospel mystery. It is the closing scene in the earthly life of Jesus.
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Behold the Place: an Easter Message
The Angel Kindly Compelled Them to Come and See It was a kindly compulsion of the angel that bade the women come and see that place.
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In Another Form
We Are Not Told What Form This is all that St. Mark has got to tell us of our Lord's appearance on the Emmaus road. It is in the Gospel of St.
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The Worldwide Gospel
The Gospel Deep and Wide There are two directions in which the sway of Jesus is without any parallel in human history.
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The Feeding of the Lamb
The first words which John ever heard of Jesus were words that described Him as a Lamb.
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How Science Helps Religion
One hears a great deal from many different quarters of the conflict of science and religion.
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The Problem of Pain
The problem of pain, I think, is in its full intensity a modern problem. There is today a sensitiveness to pain which in past ages was unknown.
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Service in Heaven
Of the life of the glorified in heaven Scripture does not tell us very much.
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The Beatific Vision
It should be noted that this beatitude of glory immediately follows on another. It immediately follows on the promise that His servants shall serve Him.
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The Reign of the Saints
I venture to say that with this expression there creeps in a touch of unreality.
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The Root and the Star
Nothing is more notable in Jesus than the union of apparent contradictories.
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Self-Ignorance
It is the true desire of every earnest heart that preceding the Communion Service our thoughts should be turned inward in self-examination.
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John the Forerunner
Forerunners Precede Great Events or Persons It is one of the ways of God in the ordering of history to grant forerunners of great events or persons.
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Faith Refusing Deliverance -- Part I
Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance--Heb 11:35 Faith Leads to Deliverance Among the blessings which we connect with faith, one of the most...
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Faith Refusing Deliverance -- Part II
Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance--Heb 11:35 Faithfulness Is Better Than Happiness When Happiness Is Brought On by What Is False Or I might...
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The Call of the Fishermen
Christ Singles Out an Individual's Disappointment It was not easy for Jesus Christ to be alone, men were so eager and so curious about Him.
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Somewhat to Say
Jesus Christ Has Somewhat to Say It is one of the notable things about our Lord that always He has somewhat to say. No hour of need ever finds Him silent.
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Seeming to Have
Not Hypocrisy but Self-Deception You will observe that when our Lord speaks of the man who seems to have, He is not referring to the hypocrite.
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Jairus' Daughter
The Only Child Dying The morning that saw the Gadarene demoniac cured dawned sadly over one home in Capernaum.
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The Weapon of Ridicule
From Lament to Ridicule This incident occurred in Capernaum, whither our Savior had just returned.
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Cross-Bearing
The Cross Signified Anything Difficult to Bear When the Romans crucified a criminal, not only did they hang him on a cross.
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Ashamed of Christ
Why Some Were Ashamed of Christ in His Day... I can understand how men were ashamed of Christ as He moved about the villages of Galilee.
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The Prerequisite of Vision
Sleeping on the Mount of Transfiguration Is Spiritually Unnatural It is very strange to find the disciples heavy with sleep, even on the Mount of...
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The Conflict of Duties -- Part I
The Conflict between What Is Right and Wrong There has been very considerable discussion as to the precise import of this incident, but the moral...
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The Conflict of Duties -- Part II
The Concentric Circles of Our Lives and the Various Voices That Call Us to Duty But still more powerfully do men feel this pressure in regard to the...
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The Mission of the Seventy
There Is a Place for You to Serve Can you picture the distress of a farmer when he sees his fields golden with a harvest, and there are no servants to...
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Holding On
The Ploughman: A Symbol of the Person Who Holds On Holding to things doggedly was one of the controlling thoughts of Jesus.
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Unexpected Comforters
No Help Came from Those He Expected It From If ever a comforter was unexpected it was in the case of this poor wounded wayfarer.
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Just There
The Lord Himself as a Good Samaritan Our Lord, true poet that He was, had a great liking for pictorial teaching, and in all the pictures of His gallery none...
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Christ and Worry
Seizing upon the Essential These words, you will remember, are taken from the brief description of the well-known scene in the home of Martha and Mary at...
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Social Claims Impelling Us to God
This Parable Resulted from a Request How to Pray This parable was spoken to encourage men in the difficult exercise of prayer.
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The Holy Spirit Not a Luxury
A Gift Bestowed at Salvation There is a widespread if undefined belief that the act of coming to the Savior is something different in experience from the...
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The Lamp
Everything We See Depends on the Condition of the Eyes At first sight this might seem to thoughtful readers a somewhat inappropriate comparison.
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Interior Alms
The importance of the Within That the rendering of the Revised Version is the right one is suggested by a study of the context.
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The Rich Fool
What Jesus Did When He Was Interrupted Jesus was often interrupted in His teaching, and some of the choicest sayings in the Gospel spring from these...
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The Great Supper -- Part I
The Peril of the Neglected Invitation At the table of the chief Pharisee, where Jesus was reclining when He spoke this parable, the guests were almost...
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The Great Supper -- Part II
Don't Let Pride, Anxiety or Family Keep You Away Next note the excuses of the invited guests, and see first the points in which they differ.
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Counting the Cost
Life Is a Building It is notable that in this little parable, and in the one which directly follows it (Luk 14:31), which deal with the great endeavors of...
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The Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin
"There Is Something Astonishing in the Christian Religion" In the Catacombs at Rome there is no more familiar painting than that of the Good Shepherd with...
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The Two Petitions of the Prodigal
Father, Give Me I wonder if my readers ever noticed that the prodigal made two petitions to his father. The first was: "Father, give me."
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Coming to Oneself
You Are Not Yourself While Unrepentant In a few graphic touches Jesus delineates the kind of life the prodigal had been leading.
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Homesickness of the Soul
A Little Light on a Dark Subject A very fresh and delightful American writer, John Burroughs--a man who often reminds us of our own Richard Jefferies--has...
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The Prodigal Son
The Tenderness of Jesus' Words A friend of mine was on one occasion visiting one of our seaport hospitals.
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The Elder Brother
Seeing beneath the Regularities There is not a little that is excellent in the character of the elder brother, and our Lord, with His eye for what is fine,...
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Refusing to Go In
An Inexhaustible Parable I have often spoken on this beautiful parable, and I hope often to speak on it again.
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Our Duty Toward Our Equals
The Elder Brother's Duty toward His Younger Brother The moral failure of the elder brother is very significant in one respect.
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The Thoughtfulness of Jesus
The Manifestation of the Divine and Human Jesus This is an exquisite and charming instance of the thoughtfulness of Jesus.
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
The Passion Was the Same Our Lord had been speaking against the sin of covetousness, when the Pharisees, who were themselves lovers of money (Luk.
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The Fatal Power of Inattention
It Wasn't Inhumanity There is a well-known picture by Gustave Dore, which portrays this parable of the rich man and the beggar.
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Obedience and Blessing
The Faith of the Lepers Was in Believing These words occur in the account of the miracle wrought on the ten lepers.
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Fainting in Prayer
Jesus Taught Men to Pray This is one of the passages in which our Lord gave encouragement to prayer.
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The Doctrine of Delays
A Freedom Only a Son Would Take This parable, as the Scripture itself tells us, was meant to teach us importunity in prayer.
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Zacchaeus
Jesus and Modern Man The eighteenth chapter of Luke closed with Jesus giving sight to a blind man; Luk.
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The Parable of the Pounds
The Context of the Parable The Gospel tells us what was the occasion of this parable.
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The Tears of Jesus -- Part I
He beheld the city, and wept over it--Luk.
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The Tears of Jesus -- Part II
He beheld the city, and wept over it--Luk.
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The Road to Emmaus
The Most Memorable Appearance of the Risen Christ Of all the appearances of the risen Christ, none has a stronger hold upon Christendom than the one along...
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The Burning Heart
A Beautiful Story That Lives in Our Hearts Every detail of this beautiful story lives in the imagination of Christendom.
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The Mastery of Our Thoughts
Practicing the Control of Thought We are all familiar with the difference that is made by the thoughts which arise within our hearts.
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Hands Beautiful
The Hand--A Symbol of the Active Life The Bible is signally distinguished for this, that with a message from God it reaches the human heart, but not less...
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The Ascension
Why Forty Resurrection Days?
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John the Witness-Bearer
The Large Place Witnessing Has in Scripture The thought of witness-bearing finds ample expression in the Bible.
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The Unrecognized Christ
The Presence of Christ Is Perpetual It is almost a commonplace to say that the world does not know its greatest men.
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The First Disciples
The Beginning of Changes When a man has risen to great eminence, we are always interested in the story of his childhood.
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The Best Wine Last
With God, the Best Is at the End Into the story of this memorable marriage I do not propose to go.
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The Miracle at Cana
Two Periods of Christ at a Feast When a man has set his hand to some stupendous task that can only be achieved through years of suffering, there are two...
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The Tidings of the Breeze -- Part I
The Night Wind This is one of the profoundest sayings that ever fell upon a listening ear, and yet it bears to us every mark of being occasional and...
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The Tidings of the Breeze -- Part II
Resistance to the Wind Brings Music, So Is It with Life in the Spirit Again there are two elements in this utterance which it is well that we should bear in...
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The Casual Contacts of Jesus
The Casual Encounters of Jesus One notes, in the life of Jesus, how many folk there were who met Him casually.
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The Woman of Samaria
Scenes by Wells It is remarkable how many of the choicest scenes of Scripture should be associated with wells.
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The Dedication of the Will
Is Religion Based on Reason or Feeling,' It has been a matter of controversy time and again which is the true wellspring of religion; and to this question,...
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The Cure of the Nobleman's Son
The Beginning of His Ministry It is to be noted that all the miracles in this Gospel, with the exception of those of the loaves and the walking on the sea,...
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Some Features of Christ's Working
Christ Taught That Work Is Honorable It is characteristic of the Christian Gospel that its Savior should be a worker.
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The Judgment of the Son
Not Future Judgment but Present When we hear the word judgment on the lips of Christ we are prone to cast our thoughts into the future.
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Finding Him on the Other Side
Men Sought after Christ When our Lord had fed the multitude He constrained His disciples to depart. He wanted a season of solitary prayer.
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The Drawing of the Father
These Words Spoken in Pity We get some light on these deep words by remembering the occasion of their utterance.
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Our Lord as a Student
He Gave the Impression of a Student What our text implies is this, that our Lord gave the impression of a student.
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There Are Things We Cannot Hear
No One Could Complain That They Could Not Hear I should think that when these words were spoken they must have caused a great deal of perplexity.
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The Rainbow and the Throne
This vision, like all the visions of the Apocalypse, is given for the most practical of purposes. It is not the dreaming of an idle seer.
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The Man Born Blind
The Self-Forgetfulness of Christ The eighth chapter of John closes with the Jews insulting Jesus.
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The Pattern of Service
The Perfect Service of Our Lord Our Lord came among us as one who suffereth, and so He has taught us how to suffer.
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The Good Shepherd
The Man Born Blind and the Good Shepherd Chapter nine of John's Gospel tells about the man born blind.
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Eternal Life
What Is Life? Amid all the mysteries which engird us there is none deeper than the mystery of life.
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The Thing Incredible
History Has Come Full Circle It is strange how often in the course of history the wheel has "come full circle."
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The Man Who Does No Miracle
The Brilliant and the Average The kind of man who does no miracle is the kind we are meeting every day. He is the man who never makes us marvel.
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The Number of the Hours
The Disciples' Misunderstanding of Christ These words were spoken by Jesus at the time when news had been brought Him that Lazarus was sick.
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We May Live Too Long
The Confidence of Christ These words are the recoil of Jesus from the fearfulness of the disciples.
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Cock Crow
What You Hear Depends on What You Are It is a deep truth, though not the whole truth, that what we hear depends on what we are.
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Unwarrantable Interferences
The Error of the Pharisees There was a sense in which the Pharisees were entirely wrong.
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Undeveloped Lives
Waste in Nature In the summer, when the world is at its fairest, one thing that impresses us very strongly is what I might call the prodigality of nature.
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Spiritual Analysis
Christ's Agony and God's Assurance The visit of these Greeks to Jesus was a very memorable hour in His experience.
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Great Faith
The Greatness of Faith Measured by the Obstacles It Overcomes The greatness of faith often can be measured by the obstacles it overcomes.
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Seeing Jesus Is Seeing God
Utterances of Transcendent Importance That these words are of profound importance we may gather from two considerations.
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The Washing of the Disciples' Feet
Jesus' Love for His Disciples From this point onward in the Gospel of St. John, we have the private communion of Jesus with His disciples.
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The Loneliness of Sin
He Made His Bed in Hell What first strikes us here is the utter loneliness of Judas.
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Tribulation and the Untroubled Heart
He Speaks Peace in the Midst of Tribulation There are few more profitable studies than that of comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
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The Great Affirmation
Christ Knew about Death; Socrates Only Speculated It is not by any amplified detail that these words so appeal to human hearts.
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The Way, the Truth, the Life
Love Prepares a Welcome No one was more ready than Jesus to detect the anxieties of those He loved.
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The Ladder of Promise
The Ascending Scale of Promise Out of all the riches of these verses, let us take what the Lord says about Himself.
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Religion and Remembrance
The Holy Spirit Quickens the Things of Christ One great office of the Holy Spirit is to quicken and refresh the memory.
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Peace, the Possession of Adequate Resources
What Is Peace? Talking with a young fellow some time ago, I was struck by a remark he made.
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Christ with Us
The Need of Christ After the Last Supper When the Last Supper was concluded and Jesus had finished His teaching of His own, He said to them, "Arise, let us...
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The Great Comparison
The Love of Christ That their blessed Master loved them was one thing which the disciples never doubted. It was the crowning glory of their years.
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The Joy of the Lord
The Joy of Christ Was an Intense Reality Our Lord, especially as the days advanced, frequently spoke about His joy, and the notable thing is that when He...
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The Testimony of His Enemies
Love Is Not Blind I take it that if you want to understand a person, the first essential is that you should love him.
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It Is Finished
The Power of a Single Word These three words, "It is finished," are in the original a single word.
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The Garden and the Cross
The Proximity of the Cross and the Garden To a deep-seeing eye like that of John, this proximity was more than a coincidence.
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The Resurrection
Failure to Believe Christ for the Present Although Jesus had been teaching His disciples with increasing clearness that He would rise from the dead, none of...
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Love and Grief
Mary's Grief In this beautiful and ever memorable incident I wish first to dwell on Mary's grief, trying to make plain to you the greatness of that grief;...
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Turning Back to See
The Love of Mary We must remember that Mary in the garden was eagerly seeking for the Lord. She was filled with a love that would not let Him go.
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The Intrusiveness of Christ
A Time of Conflicting Emotions This was a very memorable Sunday evening, one of the most memorable that history has known.
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The Doubting of Thomas
The Supreme Importance of the Resurrection There is no reader of the New Testament who has not observed the supreme importance given to Christ's resurrection.
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Desertion and Drudgery
In the Absence of the Master When the feast of Passover was ended, the disciples left Jerusalem for Galilee.
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The Boat's Breadth
Turning Back to Old Tasks There are few scenes in the Gospel more impressive than this scene in the early morning by the sea of Galilee.
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The Reversions of Jesus
The First Command It is deeply significant to notice the reversions of our blessed Lord.
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Waiting
The Ascension--Christlike and Natural Our lesson begins with the narrative of the Ascension, and the reader will remember that this is the second account of...
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The Sabbath Day's Journey
A Three-Quarter Mile Journey A Sabbath day's journey with the Jews was a quite exact and definite expression.
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Filled with the Spirit
Be filled with the Spirit--Eph 5:18 Pentecost Was a Great Day for the Church That the day of Pentecost was a great day for the Church is one of the plainest...
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The Pentecostal Blessing
The Power of Pentecost Let us reverently try to understand what happened on that day of Pentecost. It is rightly called the birthday of the Church.
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Cure of the Lame Man
The Conversion of a Soul as Great a Miracle as Physical Healing It is perhaps wrong to call this the first miracle after Pentecost, though it is generally...
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Peter and John before the Council -- Part I
Miracle and Sermon Distasteful to the Rulers An old writer has said that a miracle was like the bell before the sermon, it caught the attention of the...
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Peter and John before the Council -- Part II
You Can Tell Who Has Been with Jesus The next thing that we observe is this, there is no mistaking one who has been with Jesus.
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Elective Affinity
After a Miracle, a Sermon, an Arrest and Release from Prison The healing of the lame man at the Gate Beautiful of the Temple had stirred an intense...
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Philip and the Ethiopian
God Removed Philip from the Middle of Evangelistic Success Philip was in the full tides of work for Christ when the message came from God that he must leave it.
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The Revelation of Duty
Sudden Conversion but Gradual Revelation The first thing to be taught us in these words is how duty is gradually revealed.
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The Blindness of Vision
It Was When His Eyes Were Opened That He Could See Nothing Blinded by the flash of light from heaven, the apostle was flung prostrate on the ground.
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Aeneas and Dorcas
In the City, Peter Found One Who Needed Healing When the fierce fires of persecution had died out, Peter set forth on a tour of visitation.
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Peter and the Angel
Plotting Versus Praying At the time when Christianity was spreading and getting its first welcome in the pagan world, Herod Agrippa I, grandson of Herod the...
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The Angel and the Sandals
Peter, the Prison-breaker There is a vividness of detail about this story which assures us that facts are being recorded.
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The Departing of the Angel
The Ministry of Prisons In the verses that precede our text we have the familiar story of Peter's release from prison.
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Rhoda
Her Name Meant "Rose" and She Was One Indeed In visiting a sickroom where there is so much that speaks of suffering one is often met by a single spot of...
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The Grace of Continuance
A Person Should Not Be Judged by a Single Action It is perilous to judge a person by one action. Life is too complex and intricate for that.
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The Stoning of Paul
God's Purpose in Persecution Driven from Antioch by the outbreak of persecution, Paul and Barnabas moved on to Iconium.
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The Baffling of the Spirit
The Circumstances of the Hindrance Were Not Clear but the Message Was.
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The Gospel in Europe
Europe was Reached with the Gospel through the Vision of One Man It was in the second missionary journey of St.
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Unconscious Ministries
An Unconscious Ministry in Music Strangers in a strange city, Paul and Silas had very violent treatment.
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He Called for Lights
The Human Heart Protests Darkness That call of the Philippian jailer is the deepest call of every human heart. It distinguishes man from the dumb beasts.
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The Attraction of Agnosticism
Atheism and Agnosticism Not very long ago in Glasgow there was a criminal trial which attracted much attention, not only by reason of its peculiar...
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The Perils of Unsettlement
These Words Paul Spoke on His Way to Jerusalem Paul was journeying to Jerusalem when he spoke the words of our text.
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Paul before His Judges
Paul's Two Years in Prison After being five days at Caesarea, Paul was formally indicted by the Jewish party.
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Paul's Voyage and Shipwreck
Paul's Mediterranean Voyage All of us love stories of voyages and shipwrecks, and our lesson of today deals with these themes.
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The Life of Drift
Causes of Drifting: Internal Breakdown It is interesting to remember some of the causes that make vessels drift.
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Social Consequences of Individual Faith
What You Believe Affects the Lives of Others It might seem as if what a man believed were no concern to anybody else.
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The Broken Things of Life
Broken Time Among the broken things of life one would think first of broken time.
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Kindness at Melita
On the Island of Malta When at last the shipwrecked company reached shore, they learned that the island on which they were cast was Melita.
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The Saving Power of Hope
It is not difficult as one looks out on life to recognize the saving power of hope.
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The Separating Power Of Things Present
It is notable that in his enumeration of things which might dim the love of God to us, the apostle should make mention of things present, and by things...
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Maintaining the Glow
All of us have hours in the interior life when we are conscious of the glowing spirit. Our hearts burn within us as we journey.
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The Things That Make for Peace
Peace! There is a benediction in the word! It is one of the fairest words in human speech.
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Joy and Peace in Believing
It is a question we ought to ask ourselves, in our quiet hours of meditation, whether we really know the joy and peace which are the benediction of our text.
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The God of Hope
In the Hebrew language, as scholars know, there are several different words for rain.
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The Limits of Liberty
It has been said by some one, I forget by whom, that a Christian has no rights, he has only duties.
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The Grace of Happy-Heartedness
Cast thy burden upon the Lord--Psa 55:22 There are few graces which the world admires so much as the grace of a cheerful heart.
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The Wonder of That Night
Attention has been directed in these days of ours to what is called the method of suggestion.
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The Tyranny of Type
There is a constant tendency in social life to reduce men to a common level.
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Forewarned, Forearmed
This is a chapter of autobiography. It is one of the glimpses we get into the great human heart that everywhere throbs in these epistles.
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The Inescapable Elements of Life
When the apostle speaks about necessities he does not think of necessary things. That is not the sense of the original.
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A Plea for Simplicity
There are some words that have a tragic history. To the hearing ear and to the understanding heart they whisper strange secrets about human progress.
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The Apostolic Paradox
It will at once occur to you how true this was of the apostles.
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Free Grace
What the thorn was of which the apostle speaks is a question we never can answer.
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The Three Centers of Love
Christ also loved the church--Eph. 5:25 The Son of God, who loved me--Gal.
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The Offense of the Cross
Paul Longed for the Salvation of the Jews One thing which marks the ministry of Paul is how he lovingly yearned over the Jews.
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Acceptance in the Beloved
Forgiveness Does Not Necessarily Imply Acceptance It ought to be noted carefully by all who ponder the interior life that acceptance is something different...
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The Evangelical Grace of Tenderheartedness
Paul's Hard Heart The first thing to impress me as I read these words is the change which had been wrought in the apostle.
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The Uplift of the Body -- Part I
The True Charter of the Human Body Students of the New Testament have often remarked how much mention is made of the body.
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The Uplift of the Body -- Part II
Christ's Compassionate Care for the Body The second factor in this change of view was the compassionate care of Jesus for the body.
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The Shield of Faith
The Power That Protects Us The armor of the ancients was of two different kinds, and both kinds were absolutely necessary.
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The Tactfulness of Love
Tact--the Grace of Touching Others Gently The word that is here used for judgment is a very interesting word. It occurs nowhere else in the New Testament.
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The Subjugation of Our Higher Longings
Paul's Love for Christ One cannot wonder that the Apostle Paul had a desire to depart and to be with Christ.
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The Form of a Servant
Slaves and Servants On one occasion our Lord announced "I am among you as one who serveth." That was the summation of His ministry.
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Living Dangerously
Who Was Epaphroditus? All we know of Epaphroditus is told us in this letter.
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The Power of the Resurrection
The Fact Versus the Power Of the fact of the resurrection, Paul had not a shadow of a doubt. It was one of his indubitable certainties.
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The Discipline of Thought
Two Unseen Worlds When we speak of unseen things, we commonly refer to things that are eternal.
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How to Control Your Thoughts
The Power of Our Thoughts We are all familiar with the difference that is made by the thoughts that arise within our hearts.
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The Virtue of Forbearance
Three Necessary Virtues If a man is to live with any joy and fullness and to find what a noble abode this world may prove, there are three virtues which he...
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The Perfecting Power of Love
Paul, an Apostle of Love We are accustomed to think of Paul as a dogmatic writer, never so happy as when immersed in argument, but we must not forget with...
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The Thankful Spirit
In the Midst of Adversity The people to whom this was addressed were mostly people in very humble circumstances. Many of them would have been slaves.
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In the Name
Men of Old Put Great Faith in Names To the original readers of this letter this text would have a deep significance, and it would have that because to them...
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To the Half-Hearted
A Command to Slaves I want you to note how our text is introduced; it has a very. suggestive and illuminative context.
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Folk Who Are a Comfort to Us
Others Can Be Our Paregoric The word comfort in our text is a very interesting word.
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The Ambition of Quietness
Dangers of Great News of the Past and the Future The church at Thessalonica to which Paul wrote the letter was in an unsettled and distracted state.
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The Moral Conditions of Belief
Tampering with Conscience We must try to understand what the apostle means when he speaks of putting away a good conscience.
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Christ and the Hope of Immortality
The Mingling of the New and Old There are two ways in which Christ has worked in His long task of the regeneration of mankind.
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The Tragedy of Renounced Service
Demas--Col 4:14 Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world--2Ti 4:10 The Downfall of Demas The disloyalty of Demas has had a strange grip upon...
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The Selective Power of Personality
Misapplications of Scripture It would be an interesting but a melancholy study to consider the texts of Scripture which have been misapplied.
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Christ and the Fear of Death
We Face Death with Curiosity There are two feelings which the thought of death has always kindled in the human breast, and the first of them is curiosity.
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The Temptations of Calvary
Christ's Temptations Were Real That our Lord's temptations were intensely real is the accepted faith of Christendom.
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The Sinlessness of Christ
A Truth of Utmost Importance It might seem at first as if the sinlessness of Jesus were a matter far away from human need.
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The Interceding Savior
The Strengthening Power of Prayer There are times in life when it is very helpful to know that somebody is praying for us.
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Through the Eternal Spirit
The Two Worlds It is not likely, from the turn of the expression, that the writer is thinking of the Holy Spirit, and probably we shall get nearest to his...
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The Anguish of the Light
Battle After Illumination This is a very remarkable conclusion to a verse that suggests the blessings of the light: it is one of those suggestive...
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Patience
Virtues of Necessity There are some virtues which are exclusive virtues and are only demanded in peculiar circumstances.
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The Tent and the City
The Unfaltering Faith of Abraham In this great chapter, the roll call of the heroes, Abraham occupies a very honorable place.
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The Winsomeness of Jesus
Christ's Manner Was Gracious Our text tells us that the words of Christ were gracious words, and in every sense of the word gracious that is true.
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The Cloud of Witnesses
The Eyes of the Witnesses upon us While the word witness in the New Testament generally has the sense of testifier, there can be little question that in...
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On Weights
Sins and Weights When the writer speaks of the sin which doth beset us, he is not referring to one particular sin.
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The Discipline of Uncertainty
This, you say, is nothing original and I grant you at once it is not unusual.
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The Living Hope
One of the glorious things in our religion is the preeminence it gives to hope.
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Doing Things Happily
That word conversation, as we all know, has a different meaning on our lips from that which it bears in Holy Scripture.
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The Cross and Sin
The cross, though it be a single fact, is a fact with large diversity of meaning. Its significance is inexhaustible.
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Keeping in Love With Life
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
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What to Do With Our Cares
The cares of which the apostle speaks were those associated with persecution.
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Our Daily Bread
Every Harvest Is Prophecy Once more in the kindly providence of God we have reached the season of the harvest.
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Inspiration Not of Private Interpretation
There are some texts with the words of which we have been familiar since our childhood, and yet we may never have seriously asked ourselves what is their...
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The Slowness of God
It is not difficult to understand the mood of those whom the apostle is addressing.
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The Necessity of Acknowledging Sin
This text is just a little difficult to understand, and the difficulty is of a peculiar kind because it is not quite so easy to see what is the connection...
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The Crowning Vision
Whether we shall see God as He is, is a question that has been often agitated in the schools. No man hath seen God at any time.
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The Omniscience of Love
There are some texts of Scripture, and this is one of them, which are very generally misinterpreted.
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Have You Tried the Way of Love?
In a thoughtful book I came across a striking suggestion about Jesus. It is that the question He is always asking is, "Have you tried the way of love?"
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Love Perfects Service
Think of some young man a hundred years ago drafted into the service of the navy.
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Contrasted Environments
The two brief texts which I have chosen suggest the two environments of life, and do so in a very vivid way.
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The Note of the Heroic
It is notable that in this vision of the ascended Savior, the eyes should have been as it were a flame of fire.
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His Eyes
When John was an old man he had a vision of the ascended Lord.
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The Setting of the Pearl
The Fact of Jesus--Mark's Gospel It is generally agreed that the Gospel of St.
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The Wise Men and the Star
God Speaks Our Language One of the first lessons of this passage is that God speaks to men in ways they can understand.
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They Found What They Diligently Sought
At Last They Reached Their Goal I notice first of all that these wise men from the East came to the house at last.
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The Eternal Son
Unto us a child is born--Isa 9:6 The Joy of Christmas At Christmas, in common with all Christendom, our thoughts gladly journey towards Bethlehem.
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The Angels and the Babe
God Speaks Your language One of the messages of this beautiful story is that God speaks in ways we understand. That is part of His fatherly compassion.
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Love and Courage
But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping and seeth two angels and she turned herself back, and saw Jesus--Joh 20:11, Joh 20:12, Joh 20:14 The...
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Where to Go at Christmas
Bethlehem Did Not Know What God Was Doing in Its Midst Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, that we may see the unobtrusiveness of God.
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The Message of Christmas
Find Out What God Is Doing in Your Neighborhood It was a great thing for these shepherds to be in the same country with the new-born Christ.
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Simeon and Anna -- Part I
Age and Infancy Meet No more beautiful scene could be imagined than this meeting of age and infancy in the Temple.
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Simeon and Anna -- Part II
God's Performance Greater Than His Promise Next we see that God's performance is greater than His promise.
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The Boyhood of Jesus
Uneventful Years Need Not Be Unprofitable One of the holiest doctors of the mediaeval church, who was placed by Dante among the saints of paradise, said a...
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Coming Back Again -- Part I
It Was Hard to Return to Nazareth after the Vision of Jerusalem That visit to Jerusalem was one of the great hours in the life of Jesus.
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Coming Back Again -- Part II
Routine Should Never Be Counted as Drudgery Now, that is big with meaning for us all, and is capable of endless application.