Love was the interpreter

by | Oct 6, 2013 | Devotional

by J.R. Miller A young lady purchased a book and read a few pages but was not interested in it. Some months afterwards she met the author and a tender friendship sprang up, ripening into love and marriage. Then the book was dull no longer. Every sentence had a charm...

Profiting from the Scriptures by J.C. Ryle

by | Oct 1, 2013 | Bible, Devotional

Taken from Profiting from the Scriptures by J.C. Ryle (1) For one thing, begin reading your Bible this very day. The way to do a thing–is to do it; and the way to read the Bible–is actually to read it! It is not merely meaning, or wishing, or resolving, or...

A time to laugh

by | Aug 18, 2013 | Devotional

by J.R. Miller A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. Proverbs 15:13 All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast! Proverbs 15:15 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit...

Let us hear the voice of thy love

by | Jul 30, 2013 | Devotional

C.H.Spurgeon Morning, April 2 He answered him to never a word. –Matthew 27:14 He had never been slow of speech when he could bless the sons of men, but he would not say a single word for himself. “Never man spake like this man,” and never man was silent like...

These constant, inevitable, and lesser evils

by | Jul 19, 2013 | Devotional

by Hannah More Remember that life is not entirely made up of great evils or heavy trials. The perpetual recurrence of petty evils and small trials is the ordinary and appointed way to mature our Christian graces. To bear with the moodiness of those about us, with...