His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them....
For knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the mysteries of the gospel, without any work of grace in the soul. You see, even if a man has all knowledge, he may still be nothing, and so, conseq...
Everyone needs to make his own choices. You need to mind your own business and not meddle in ours. So
And as he went, he sang, saying-- Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest Unto thy Lord; with whom thou shalt be blest, When faithless ones, with all their vain delights, Are crying out under the...
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him th...
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God hath promised, or accordi...
For instance, I have seen many cry out against sin in the pulpit who yet abide it well enough in their own heart, home, and manner of life.Potiphar's
As Pliable and Christian find themselves walking together toward the narrow gate, we see the stark contrast between the two pilgrims. One is burdened; the other is not. One is clutching a book that is...
Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty...
Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
When you talk of your journey and of what you have heard and seen, you inwardly desire your own glory in all you do and say.All
The preeminent job of the church is to equip Christian for life's challenges. This requires the emphasis on being fitted with tested armor. He is tutored in the Word of God. He is encouraged to rely o...
God's grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart, which is why God has given us His Holy Spirit to superintend the process of more fully revealing the...
A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers.Where
The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend;For Iperceive
My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.
It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all.
I stopped being watchful and diligent. I rushed after my own lusts. I sinned against the light of the Word and the goodness of God. I have grieved the Spirit, and He is gone. I tempted the Devil, and...