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If you have any desire to escape the wrath to come! (Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to Audio!   Download Audio“Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for His wrath can flare up in a moment!” Psalm 2:12a   By “kissing the Son,” we are to understand . . .  love to Christ’s […]

What Lord! After all that I have done! (Octavius Winslow, “The Lord’s Prayer” 1866)  LISTEN to audio!   Download audio“Only acknowledge your guilt! Admit that you rebelled against the Lord your God and committed adultery against Him by worshiping idols under every green tree. Confess that you refused to follow Me. I, the Lord, have spoken!” Jeremiah

We should lie as clay in the hands of our all-wise, all-gracious Potter!  (Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to Audio!   Download Audio“You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord!” Exodus 16:8 It is a common thing to hear people, even those who bear the Christian name, speaking of luck, and fortune, and chance–just as if

[N.B. Our web host has changed us to an entirely new system–so things have looked different for the past several days. Thank you for your patience!]  He has done all things well! (Octavius Winslow)  LISTEN to audio!    Download audio“He has done all things well!” Mark 7:37Yes, from first to last,from our cradle to our grave,from

Better than life itself! (Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to Audio!   Download Audio“The kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls. Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it!” Matthew 13:45-46 Worldliness is the besetting sin of most professing Christians! It is certain

All is transparent and harmonious to His eye! (Octavius Winslow, “My Times in God’s Hand!”) LISTEN to audio!  Download audioWe live in a world of mysteries! They . . .  meet our eye,  awaken our inquiry, and  baffle our investigation at every step. Nature is a vast arcade of mysteries. Science is a mystery. Truth is a mystery. Religion is a mystery. Our existence is a mystery. The future of our being is a mystery. And God, who alone can explain all mysteries, is the greatest mystery of all! How little do we understand of the inexplicable wonders of a wonder working God, “whose thoughts are a great deep,” and “whose ways are past finding out.”But to God, nothing is mysterious. In His purpose, nothing is

The house in which we must all abide at last! (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“I know that you will bring me down to death, and to the house appointed for all the living!” Job 30:23 “For all can see that wise men die; the foolish and the senseless alike perish and leave their

I have  treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food!  (Charles  Simeon)  LISTEN  to Audio!  “I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my  necessary food!” Job 23:12 How much fuller a revelation of  God’s mind do we possess, than did Job! Doubtless Job’s views, both of  himself as a

People are universally deceived (Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio “Do not let him who is deceived trust in vanity;  for vanity shall be his recompense.” Job 15:31 People are universally deceived through the influence of:   their own corrupt hearts,   a tempting world,   and a subtle adversary! And that deception manifests

The Golden Key! The Golden Thread! (Octavius Winslow)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio Jesusis the one great theme both of the Old Testament and the New. The whole Bible is designed to testify of Christ, “The Scriptures point to Me!” John 5:39 In Christ the Messiah, in Jesus the Savior, in the Son of God