Daily Grace Gems

Do you indeed ACT as you pray? (J.A. James, “Prayer and Practice“) LISTEN to audio! Download audio I need not prove to you that prayer, as a duty, is essential to Christian conduct; and, as a privilege, prayer is equally indispensable to Christian enjoyment. All Christians give themselves to this devout exercise. Their petitions are […]

This pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, and pleasure-inventing age (J.A. James, “HINDRANCES to Christian Progress“) LISTEN to audio!Download audioWATCH video A taste for worldly amusements will inevitably prove, wherever it is indulged–a powerful obstacle to growth in grace. Man is unquestionably made for enjoyment. He has a capacity for bliss–an instinctive appetite for gratification; and for this, God

Constant multiplication of corrupted copies! (J.A. James, “Earnestness in Personal Religion” 1847) LISTEN to audio!Download audio Our idea of the nature of earnest individual piety must be taken, not from the conventional customs of the age–but from the Word of God. Once give up the Bible as the only true standard of personal piety, and

Satan’s workshop! (J.A. James, speaking of the power of the press in 1848) LISTEN to audio!Download audio “I don’t want Satan to outwit us; after all, we are not ignorant about Satan’s scheming.” 2 Corinthians 2:11 The press has a great power for evil. Infidel and immoral writers are pouring forth a deluge of skepticism

Who can wonder? (John Angell James, “Religious Education of Children” 1846) LISTEN to audio!Download audio “You should be an exampleto the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12Look into some families of professors–follow them through the history of only one week, and see . . .  their worldly-mindedness, 

Is this your religion? (John Angell James, “Christian Love“) LISTEN to audio! Download audio “If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all  mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing!” 1 Corinthians 13:2 LOVE is a grace which many

An ice house, instead of a hot house! (John Angell James, “Earnestness in Personal Piety” 1847) LISTEN to audio! Download audio It appears quite clear that great numbers of Christian professors are very imperfectly acquainted with the requirements of “pure and undefiled religion,” and need to be led to re-study it in the pages of

Flesh-pleasing pulpit opiates! (John Angell James, “Dislike to Ministerial Faithfulness Stated and Explained“) LISTEN to audio!Download audio They are a rebellious people, deceptive children–children who do not obey the Lord’s instruction. They say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things! Prophesy

The domestic slave (John Angell James, “Female Piety–The Young Woman’s Guide Through Life to Immortality“) LISTEN to audio!Download audio There are various kinds of slavery in the world, and many classes of victims of this cruel bondage. There is among others, the domestic slave, whose tyrant is her husband–and the scene of her bondage is

A decent, flowery, down-hill way to eternal destruction! (John Angell James, “Christian Hope” 1859) LISTEN to audio! Download audio Christ is . . .  the supreme object of a true Christian’s love,  the chief source of his felicity,  the highest end of his life. The first object of a Christian’s desire, pursuit and expectation–is the