Sunday Considerations: Satan’s Subtle Devices
Advertise here with Beacon Ads My fellow Christians, as you prepare for Sunday worship, consider the following words from William Tiptaft (1803 – 1864) on Satan’s subtle devices in light of your love...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: The Soul Needs Spiritual Rest
Advertise here with Beacon Ads The soul needs spiritual rest: ”The shadow of a great rock” in this “weary land.” It has tried many plans of worldly greatness — and found them vain! It has traversed...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Joy to Every Believer
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Once more, there is joy to every Believer when he remembers that, as Christ said, “It is finished,” every guarantee was given of the eternal salvation of all the...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Watch and Pray
Advertise here with Beacon Ads “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation.” Mark 14:38 As Christ is the church’s friend—so Satan is the church’s enemy: her greatest enemy, her cruelest enemy, her...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Peace of God
Advertise here with Beacon Ads There are three words, pregnant with precious and important meaning, commonly used by the apostles in their salutations and benedictions, GRACE, MERCY, and PEACE. These...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Cultivate Joy
Advertise here with Beacon Ads There is an obligation upon a Christian to be happy. Let me say it again—there is a responsibility laid upon a Christian to be cheerful! It is not merely an invitation,...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: A Good Tree
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Trees are beautiful objects. If we had never seen this part of the creation before, we would be filled with admiration at the sight. A stately oak or cedar is really a...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Everlastingness
Advertise here with Beacon Ads In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,and the Word was God. John 1:1 (HCSB) Every religion in the world had a beginning. You can trace it starting...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Losing the Wonder
Advertise here with Beacon Ads There are some Christians, and even preachers, who have lost the wonder of the Christian Life. They pray prayers that have no meaning and preach sermons that have no...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: What Will You Do with Jesus?
Advertise here with Beacon Ads What Will You Do with Jesus? by A.B. Simpson, 1891. Jesus is standing in Pilate’s hall, Friendless, forsaken, betrayed by all; Hearken! what meaneth the sudden call?...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Christian Behavior
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Christ is risen, and we have risen with Him and sit at the right hand of the Father with Him in spirit— and one of these days with a human body. In the meantime, we’re...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Glorious Resurrection
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Previously, I shared some pre-Christian Good Friday thoughts. My aim was to encourage people this Easter weekend to consider the sins – their sins – that put Jesus on...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: After the Sermon
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Fellow Christians, what will we do with sermon(s) we hear it this Sunday? What will we do with the sermon once we get home? On Monday morning? Below are some thoughts...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: As Little Children
Advertise here with Beacon Ads “I assure you,” He said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3 (HCSB) When our Lord says, we must...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Fear and Worship
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Fear God Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Beatitude for Sorrow
Advertise here with Beacon Ads A great preacher has said, “It is worth our thought how small that audience must be that would assemble, life through, to listen to a gospel that said nothing to...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: The Mind of Jesus
Advertise here with Beacon Ads “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5 “Arm yourselves likewise with the same mind” 1 Peter 4:1 THE MIND OF JESUS! What a study is...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Under New Management
Advertise here with Beacon Ads God identifies all believers with Christ, not in some mystical or theoretical way, but by changing our legal relationships. Before our conversion, we were obligated to...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Enemies of the Christian
Advertise here with Beacon Ads The enemies of the Christian have been commonly divided into three classes—the world, the flesh, and the devil. But though these may be conceived of, and spoken of...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Speak Peaceably
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful. John 14:27 (HCSB) Another thing to...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Obey in Christ
Advertise here with Beacon Ads How Can I Obey in Christ?—Faith Further, we must seek to know how, through Christ, we can walk in line with the gospel and render the obedience of faith. No obedience...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Self Examination
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Queries for Self Examination by John Angell James Do you regularly attend the public ordinances of religion, and feel the inward power of godliness while observing its...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Be Holy
Advertise here with Beacon Ads When God then directs us in the Bible, “Be holy, for I am holy”; when we are exhorted to “follow holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”; when we are...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: The Only Hope
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Christ and him crucified, is the only hope of the sinner. Here is the only substantial, permanent foundation of all our hopes. “For other foundation can no man lay than...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: My Precious Savior
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Oh, my precious Savior What a blessed thing it is that we are not to live here always, that our existence is not bounded by this lower sphere! Holy Father, may our...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Craving Beauty
Advertise here with Beacon Ads The beauties of this world whisper to our souls that there is someone ultimate. But the ultimate is never found in the wonderland of creation. We keep looking and...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Suffering Christian
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Suffering Christian! Jesus is at your side, witnessing your sufferings. He sympathizes with you in your sorrows, and will do you good by every pain. He is always present...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: True Love
Advertise here with Beacon Ads Love is an affection of the soul, not a contract: it cannot rise from a mere agreement, nor is it so to be gained. It is spontaneous in its origin and impulse; and true...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: After Church
Advertise here with Beacon Ads All of us must go out from the sweet services of the Sunday—into a week of very real and very commonplace life. We must mingle with people who are not angels. We must...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Christmas After Christmas
Advertise here with Beacon Ads What becomes of Christmas, when the day is gone? It is the gladdest day of the year. It is celebrated in all Christian lands. The churches observe it, sometimes with...
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