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The school of Heaven! (Octavius Winslow, “Evening Thoughts”)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio“The Lord has done great things for us, and we  are filled with joy.  Those who sow in tears, will reap with songs of joy.” Psalm 126:3, 5We can praise God for trials!We can thank God for sorrows!These have been to us, though a painful–yet a much […]

They are never separated!(Thomas Watson, “The Lord’s Prayer“)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio“You were sanctified; you were justified.” 1 Corinthians 6:11Justification and sanctification are not the same.Justification is without us; sanctification is within us.The one is by righteousness imputed; the other is by righteousness imparted.Justification is once and for all; sanctification is gradual.One person is sanctified more than another; but

The great and universal crime of our race! (Octavius Winslow, “The Weaned Child“)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio“But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother–like a weaned child is my soul within me.” Psalm 131:2The first object from which our heavenly Father weans his child, is the idol SELF!

God shoots many kinds of arrows! (Thomas Watson, “The Lord’s Prayer“)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio“May Your will be done.” Matthew 6:10We pray here, that we may have grace to submit to God’s will patiently, in whatever He inflicts.Patient submission to God’s will, is a gracious frame of soul, whereby a Christian is content to

How unfitting this is! (Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download AudioThe believer must ever conduct himself with kindness and love towards the wicked. Yet there is in many religious professors, almost the same acrimony against the ungodly world–as there is in the ungodly world against them!How unfitting this is! For if there is any difference between us and

It is I! (Octavius Winslow,  “Christ’s Sympathy to Weary Pilgrims“)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio“Take courage! It is I! Do not be afraid!” Mark 6:50Listen then, to the voice of Jesus in the storm! It is I who raised the tempest in your soul–and will control it.It is I who sent your affliction–and will be with you in it.It is I who kindled

Walking pictures of Christ! (Thomas Watson, “Body of Divinity“)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio“Leaving you an example, so that you should follow in His steps.” 1 Peter 2:21“The one who says he remains in Him should walk just as He walked.” 1 John 2:6“I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.” John 13:15True

Your unfailing Guide! (Octavius Winslow, “Christ is Ever with You!” 1863)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio“Surely, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world!” Matthew 28:20Christ is with us, as our GUIDE. How deep our need of Him as such, and how endeared does it make Him!So blind are we,so dark is our future,so perplexing is our present path;that

I consider them rubbish! (Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio“But whatever was to my profit, I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things! I consider them rubbish,

How great is the evil and bitterness of sin!  (Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to Audio!   Download Audio“Man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward!” Job 5:7“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble!” Job 14:1“In this world you will have trouble!” John 16:33If there had been no sin, there