I love this hymn and have been singing it repeatedly since yesterday. Thought I should post it here like a way of bookmarking online and, hopefully, for others to discover it._________ There’s a city of gold across the riverWhen I reach it...
Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. – 1 Sam 7:12The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet, “hitherto the Lord hath helped!”Through poverty, through...
—Excerpts from: James Smith, “Christ Exalted, Saints Comforted, and Sinners Directed” 1855—If we look at the comparisons which are made use of by the Holy Spirit to set Christ forth, we behold something more of His loveliness.He is compared to a...
“The branch cannot bear fruit of itself.” -John 15:4From Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotional.How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourselves on His great atonement, and rested on His...
by C.H. Spurgeon: He shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord. – Micah 5:4 Christ’s reign in his Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has supremacy, but it is the superiority of a wise and tender shepherd over his needy and...
by C. H. Spurgeon.Delivered on Lord’s-day Morning, February 28th, 1886. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For...
Authored by: Murray, Iain H.This article How Scotland Lost Its Hold of the Bible1 was first published in The Banner of Truth magazine, No. 623-624 (Aug-Sep 2015). The article is reposted here so more people can discover it. Its...
In the throes of meeting daily care and the seeming endless attendant to the cares of this life, I am often reminded of one of the verse of this lovely hymn where Oatman wrote, “Cares of life perplex and grind me, Yet I keep the narrow way...
Source: youtube.com/c/Acapeldridge I’d like to stay here longer than man’s alotted daysAnd watch the fleeting changes of life’s uneven waysBut if my Savior calls me to that sweet home on highI’ll live with Him forever in...