Here I Raise My Ebenezer

Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, and named it Ebenezer; for he said, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.” So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel; the hand of the LORD was against the...

John Newton’s Letter

My dear friend, My wife has been very ill. But we are growing older, and may expect that as years increase–infirmities will increase also. Yet we are in His hands–and they are merciful hands. His Word still gives us encouragement to trust in Him, and call...

Thoughtful, Sleepless, Loving Care

Weekday Religion by J. R. Miller, 1880 There is no comfort like the fact of God’s infinite, unchanging and eternal love for us! If we can but get this truth into our minds and hearts — it will sustain us in every trial. All the universe is under...

Bear a smile about with you

Cultivate a cheerful disposition; endeavor, as much as lies in you, always to bear a smile about with you; recollect that this is as much a command of God as that one which says, “Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart.” Let us take the pure gold of...

My Paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 13

My Paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 13:1-8,13; 14:1a by Harvey Bluedorn Even though I continually speak the purest words of truth, yet I do not speak them lovingly, then I am failing to deliver their full spiritual force. Again, even though I have the spiritual insight to...