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A Discourse for a Saturday Evening
The Apostle Paul, in the seventh of the Romans, gives an account of his own spiritual experience or what he was in himself and what he was by grace.In and of himself he acknowledged that he was carnal, sold under sin—a transgressor by nature and practice, no more able ...
New Year’s Eve—Staying Behind
Our thoughts go out to a man named Jacob. We read that he stayed behind at the brook Jabbok. All his possessions, his wives, children, and cattle have crossed the brook. Why is he remaining behind? He is afraid, and if you ask why he is afraid, he is thinking back to what has happened ...
In the Beginning
Anew year has just begun. What will this year bring us? All events that are uncertain now will soon become known. However, also in this year, sorrow, grief, and plagues will be the portion of us as human beings.Has it always been this way? Was this world created to be ...
The Life of Isaac (10)
The wilderness journey of Isaac is an illustration of the way in which the Lord leads His people. He leads them from place to place, but at the well Shebah, Isaac experienced that the Lord had given him a place where there was peace with his enemies; God gave him a token of His covenan ...
2020
Dear Readers,It is by the grace of God that we are enabled to come to the end of the year 2019 and begin a new year. It is a privilege to wish you God’s indispensable blessing for the time that lies before us. May the Lord keep and spare us for one another and, above ...
Hope for the Church
With great earnestness and in the name of the Lord, Zechariah showed the people the abominable sins of which they were guilty and to which they were blind. God’s holy justice had made itself manifest. Their grievous downfall and long captivity came about because of sin. The Lord was di ...
Avoiding Strife
As you seek the prosperity of this society, it is of vast importance that you should avoid contention. A contentious people will be a miserable people. The contentions that have been among you since I was your pastor have been one of the greatest burdens I have labored under in the cou ...
God’s Free Grace Glorified (4)
More than once Mina asked her father what the marks of a true desire for God were. Her father would then answer that continued praying was a token of a true desire. This was also relayed by a visiting minister who visited Middleburg and preached there. He had also said that a continual ...
Kneeling
JosephWe read in God’s holy Word about the honors bestowed upon Joseph after he interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams. Joseph becomes vice-regent, Pharaoh’s ring is placed on his finger, he was arrayed in vestures of fine linen, and a gold chain was placed about his ...
I Must Wait for the Crown
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29—In the evening I took to my bed, having gradually become worse, suffering much pain in the afternoon of that day. I can well remember that a deep solemnity rested upon my spirit when I was led to consider that I had made a profession of religion for a number of years ...
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