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Influence of Family Worship In Affliction (1)
In hours of trial the members of a household gather together, as if by a natural instinct, and the tendency is more marked where the Christian sympathies are active. But it is an unsatisfactory and cheerless assembling, when chastisement falls on a house where there is no religion. The countenanc ...
Motivation
As I commence my Youth Day Conference address on the topic of motivation, I do so by reading a few verses of Scripture as found in the Gospel of Luke, the 19th chapter: “And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publi ...
Election: A Stumbling Block?
My dear young friends,Election is from eternity, and the reason for election is the free sovereign pleasure of the Lord. The doctrine of election is a stumbling block for many people. Many churches deny election; they teach free will doctrine. They teach that man must make a decision. This ...
Influence of Family Worship In Affliction (3)
There are houses in our world of suffering where the wonderful dealing of providence presses with long-continued chastisement; sorrows which abide for years, and from which nothing promises an outlet but death — which brings with it the cure of all evils to the righteous, and the answer of all pr ...
Peer Pressure
David prays in Psalm 86:11, “Teach me Thy way, O Lord; I will walk in Thy truth: unite my heart to fear Thy Name.”That prayer is necessary for all of us. Every day we are called to make decisions in our family life. That is true for fathers in their work outside of the home, and for mother ...
Tests and Grades
Tests and grades are occupying a place of steadily increasing importance in modern life. Passing tests can be of decisive, crucial importance for our future. Good tests and good grades, especially for science and physical performances, are very highly rated. Achievements in wisdom and strength ar ...
The Influence of Family Worship on a Nation (2)
We have still to consider the great and crowning favor which family worship confers on a nation: It brings down heavenly blessings from the prayer-hearing God.Take out of a nation its praying souls and you leave it defenseless and accursed. Cities and kingdoms have ...
The Reading of God’s Law in Our Worship Service
Introduction How familiar the announcement sounds on Sunday morning, “…but we will first hear the holy law of God.” From childhood on we are accustomed to hear the law of God read at the beginning of our worship services. If this element of our worship service were ...
The Influence of Family Worship on Posterity (1)
He was a churl who said, “Why should I care for posterity? What has posterity done for me?” Only a mean and selfish mind can be indifferent as to what is coming on the earth. If any such meaning was involved in the obscure words of King Hezekiah, he was certainly not generous in his thoughts, whe ...
Privileges and Responsibilities
The topic this morning is one of practical instruction and hopefully instructive in a way that both words— privileges and responsibilities—may give us a deeper insight into their meaning, as well as understanding the relationship that privileges have with responsibilities.The word privileg ...
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