Union with Christ- J.C.Philpot (extract from A spiritual death and a hidden life.) How Christ is “our life.” Union with Christ is the grand truth revealed in the Scripture, and the fountain head out of which every blessing springs. But to understand this we must carry our thoughts upward and backward, to look at the […]
LOOKING UNTO JESUS Octavius Winslow “Looking unto Jesus” —Hebrews 12:2. It was no little kindness in our God that as one saving object, and one alone, was to engage the attention and fix the eye of the soul, through time and through eternity, that object should be of surpassing excellence and of peerless beauty. That […]
We are Christ’s Spurgeon, “Christ the Glory of His People” We are Christ’s by eternal choice. “You only have I known (or loved) of all the nations of the earth.” The eternal Father has selected us from among the ruins of the fall, and given us into the hands of Christ that we may be […]
The Glorious Bride – Horatius Bonar (18008 1889) “And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”—Revelation 21:9. These are two names for the church of God, […]
Christ’s garden (Charles Spurgeon) “I have come into My garden—My sister, My bride!” Song of Solomon 5:1 The heart of the believer is Christ’s garden. He bought it with His precious blood, and He enters it and claims it as His own. A garden implies separation. It is not the open common; it is not […]
Christ’s garden (Charles Spurgeon) “I have come into My garden—My sister, My bride!” Song of Solomon 5:1 The heart of the believer is Christ’s garden. He bought it with His precious blood, and He enters it and claims it as His own. A garden implies separation. It is not the open common; it is not […]
How vast, how numerous, how complicated are the various events and circumstances which attend the Church of God here below, as she travels onward to her heavenly home! But if all things as well as all persons are put under Jesus’ feet, there cannot be a single circumstance over which he has not supreme control. […]
‘The Justice of God in the damnation of sinners’ (extract from Jonathon Edwards) It would have been most Just with God for ever to have cast you off; But He has had Mercy upon you; He hath made His Glorious Grace appear in your “EVERLASTING SALVATION” You had no love to God; But yet He […]
‘The Justice of God in the damnation of sinners’ (extract from Jonathon Edwards) It would have been most Just with God for ever to have cast you off; But He has had Mercy upon you; He hath made His Glorious Grace appear in your “EVERLASTING SALVATION” You had no love to God; But yet He […]
REST IN THE CRUCIFIED “Come unto Me all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” “Peace be unto you. And when He had so said, He showed them His hands and His side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.” John 20:19, 20 That was a […]