- What do you think about when you are in bed?
What do you think about when you are in bed, either settling down to sleep or waking up? There are those who ‘work out evil on their beds’! (Mic. 2:1). And there are …
- Feel the Pain
Any member who does not feel the pains of his fellow members is rotten and ready to be cut off, for fear of infecting the body.
- The Fountain of All Duties
Love is the fountain of all duties toward God and man (Matt. 22: 37), the substance of all rules that concern the saints, the bond of communion, ”the fulfilling of the …
- Having the Patience of God
Suppose your God should be angry every time you gave Him cause and struck every time you provoked Him!
When your brother offends you, restrain your heart until you take a …
- Obedience of Gratitude
Obedience is the best way of showing our gratitude to God for His grace.
- Christ is in None of These Ways
Some men rejoice in others’ failings; they are malicious and fail more in that sinful joy than their brethren in that which they rejoice at.
Some are angry at weaknesses …
- He Does Not Cease to Plead
He does not cease to plead on our behalf, despite our continual backsliding (1 John 2:1–2).
- Footsteps of Christ
Meekness, patience, forbearance, and forgiveness, hiding, covering, removing of offenses—these are the footsteps of Christ.
Do you see your brother fail? Pity him. Does …
- Love Be Our Guide
Let pity, not envy… mercy, not malice… patience, not passion… Christ, not flesh… grace, not nature… pardon, not spite or revenge…
…be our guides and companions in our …
- Character and Doctrine
If a man teaches uprightly and walks crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
- Pray for the Church
He who does not continue to pray for the Lord’s glory to remain on the church is not worthy of its privileges. Prayer, then, for the good, prosperity, flourishing peace, …
- Practice What is Good
Every day I am more persuaded of this because I see men for the most part spending their strength and time more to oppose things they disagree with than to practice the …
- Saints' Greatest Burden
Many saints have no greater burden in their lives than that their hearts do not constantly delight and rejoice in God.
- Spiritual Mindedness
Let no one suppose that spiritual mindedness comes accidentally. It is just as likely for poor person to expect to be rich without effort, before weak person to be strong …
- Do You Mortify?
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
- What are all your beloveds to this Beloved?
You that are yet in the flower of your days, full of health and strength, and, with all the vigor of your spirits, do pursue some one thing, some another, consider, I …
- The Rose and the Lily
The Lord Christ is, in the Scripture, compared to all things of eminency in the whole creation. He is in the heavens the sun, and the bright morning star; as the lion …
- An Astonishing Dispensation
And truly, for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely holy God, is an astonishing dispensation.
- Glory of Christ
The glory of Christ is also seen in the stability and security that is given to the whole new creation. The first creation was glorious. Everything depended on God under …
- As If the World Were All
Men walk and talk as if the world were all, when comparatively it is nothing.
- Owen on Fearing Temptation
Let no man, then, pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation to it.