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Passion For God [3]

Julian desires to live not so that she can accumulate wealth, establish a career, make a name for herself, or have children – though in themselves these are not bad things – but at heart, she wants to live that she might have more time to know and love God. It is easy to live […]

Emotions And Feelings

For as he thinks within himself, so he is (Proverbs 23:7). Telling someone that they shouldn’t feel the way they do is a subtle form of rejection. They can do little about how they feel. The real problem is that they have a wrong perception of their situation which is making them feel the way […]

The Art Of Encouragement

A well-known preacher visited a school in England and spoke to the boys. A few days later the preacher received a letter from one of the boys which read, "A wonderful thing happened as a result of your talk. Yesterday our form master actually praised our work – a thing never known before. Can you […]

Heaven: No More Weeping

Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening Devotions Morning, August 23 "The voice of weeping shall be no more heard." – Isaiah 65:19 The glorified weep no more, for all outward causes of grief are gone. There are no broken friendships, nor blighted prospects in heaven. Poverty, famine, peril, persecution, and slander, are unknown there. No pain distresses, […]

The True Prophet

If they [the prophets] had stood in My council, then they would have announced My words to My people, and would have turned them back from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds (Jeremiah 23:22). Every true prophet of God in the Old Testament was an evangelist. His ministry drew people back […]

Passion For God [4]

He shewed a littil thing the quantitye of anhesil nutt in the palme of my hand –“it is all that I made” – “it lesteth and evershall, for God loveth it; and so all thinghath the being be the love of God.”– Julian of Norwich, Chapt. V (sent to all 26/8/98) In Chapter five Julian […]

Barnabas The Encourager

Barnabas has long been one of my favorite Bible characters. If you stop to think about it, though he didn’t write any of the books himself (except for possibly Hebrews), he was indirectly responsible for most of the new testament books. We would have none of Paul’s letters had Barnabas not mentioned him to the […]

The Life Of Faith (Spurgeon)

Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening Devotions Morning, September 18 "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." – Galatians 5:25 The two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the walk of faith. He who shall rightly understand these is not far from being a […]

Your Child’s Self-Perception

Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6). Your primary responsibility as a parent is to lead your child to Christ and help him establish his identity in Christ. When a child comes into the world, he is completely dependent […]

Love For Jesus

Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection then they dare to give to any other being. They would sooner lose father and mother then part with Christ. They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but they carry him fast locked in their bosoms. They voluntarily deny themselves for his sake, but they are […]