Wednesday, Jan. 2. Dull. I find, by experience, that, let me make resolutions, and do what I will, with never so many inventions, it is all nothing, and to no purpose at all, without the motions of the Spirit of God; for if the Spirit of God should be as much withdrawn from me always, as for the week past, notwithstanding all I do, I should not gro…

God's care of His people includes the restoring their youth to be like the special strength and vigor of eagles. God Will Restore Your Youth as an Eagle.بقلم Grant Van Leuven

To those to whom this frame is a burden, there is no more effectual means to stir them up unto endeavors for deliverance than a continual remembrance of former things, and experiences they have had of holy communion with God. This will revive, quicken, and strengthen the things that are ready to die, and beget a self-abhorrence in them in considera…

The generality of Christians are contented with their present measures, and design little more than not to lose the ground they have gained. And a pernicious folly it is, that both ruins the glory of religion and deprives the souls of men of peace and consolation. But so it is.بقلم John Owen

It is from an unquestionable and commonly acknowledged truth, that Solomon here urgeth us to diligence in duty; and therefore to prove it would be but loss of time. As there are two worlds for man to live in, and so two lives for man to live, so each of these lives hath its peculiar employment. This is the life of preparation: the next is the life …

1. God exerts upon the wicked a restraining influence by which they are prevented from doing what they are naturally inclined to do. A striking example of this is seen in Abimelech, king of Gerar. Abraham came down to Gerar, and fearful lest he might be slain on account of his wife, he instructed her to pose as his sister.…

O you drowsy saints, that you can sleep so quietly on it when things all about you are conspiring trouble and threatening danger. Can you sleep like Jonah when seas of wrath are tumbling and roaring all around you and threaten to entomb you and all your pleasures? The stork in the heaven knows her appointed times (Jeremiah 8:7); has God not made yo…

The Sovereignty of God - 1918 - From all eternity God designed that our world should be the stage on which He would display His manifold grace and wisdom in the redemption of lost sinners: "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal p…

Many appear to forget that we are saved and justified as sinners, and only sinners; and that we never can attain to anything higher, if we live to the age of Methuselah. Redeemed sinners, justified sinners, and renewed sinners doubtless we must be,--but sinners, sinners, sinners, we shall be always to the very last. They do not seem to comprehend t…

How diabolical, then, is that madness which pretends that the use of the Scripture is only transient and temporary, which guides the sons of God to the highest point of perfection! I would also ask them another question—whether they have imbibed a different spirit from that which the Lord promised to his disciples?…

Human Nature in it Fourfold State. #2 The state of fallen man.بقلم Thomas Boston

In this place I believe that we have but very few who could be put down among the rich. There have been some persons of position who have cast in their lot amongst us; but, still, the mass who did the, work of building this house, and who have stood side by side with me in the battle of the, last seven years, must be reckoned among the poor of this…

Brother Humble Heart: "I cannot but be struck with the fact that your counsel and instruction are the very opposite of what was given to me by the last person I spoke to about my sorrows. He is a man very wise in the Scriptures, having scores of passages at his finger's end. He told me that the only way to get rid of my doubting was to believe the …

This sermon was preached on the occasion of Pastor Grant beginning a new, FT "tent making" job help continue with the ministry at PRPC. Looking at Paul, Aquila, and Priscilla for examples, we see that the ministry of God's Word throughout the world may sometimes involve trade work of its ministers. There is Precedence of Tent Making in Scripture to…

A sermon preached at Frederick's Hall, Va., in Hood's (4th) Texas Brigade, June 22, 1862, and published in tract form at the request of Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson.General Thomas J. Jackson, during his forced march from the Valley of Virginia to the Chickahominy, halted his command, for the Sabbath, along the line of the Virginia Central Railroad, fro…

Men by nature have presumptions and common ingrafted notions of other properties of God besides his holiness and justice, —as of his goodness, benignity, love of His creatures, and the like; but all these have this supposition inlaid with them in the souls of men, namely, that all things stand between God and his creatures as they did at their firs…

"The subject of this work suggested itself to the author's mind during a visit to the metropolis. His close communion, at that time, with what is called the 'religious world,' forced upon his mind the painful conviction, that while religious profession was greatly on the increase- and never more so in the higher classes of society than at the prese…

Section 9 From The Freedom of the Willبقلم Jonathan Edwards

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (born October 26, 1818, Portland, Maine, U.S.—died August 13, 1878, Dorset, Vermont) was an American writer of popular children's books of a pious and homely character.Elizabeth Payson was the daughter of Edward Payson, minister and revivalist. At age 19 she opened a short-lived school, but ill health made it difficult for…

Consider the dangerous ensnaring temptations that come with a pleasant and prosperous situation. Few, very few people who live in the pleasures of this world escape everlasting hell. It is easier, says Christ, for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:24). Not many mighty, not ma…

"I have greatly longed of late for a broken heart, and to lie low before God; and, when I ask for humility, I cannot bear the thoughts of being no more humble than other Christians. It seems to me, that though their degrees of humility may be suitable for them, yet it would be a vile self-exaltation in me, not to be the lowest in humility of all ma…

The sincerity of our profession of faith depends a lot upon the care we exercise in keeping our hearts. Most certainly, the man who is careless about the attitude of his heart is nothing but a hypocrite in his profession of faith, no matter how religious he appears to be.بقلم John Flavel

The sovereign exercise of grace is illustrated on nearly every page of Scripture. The Gentiles are left to walk in their own ways while Israel becomes the covenant people of Jehovah. Ishmael the firstborn is cast out comparatively unblest, while Isaac the son of his parents' old age is made the child of promise. Esau the generous-hearted and forgiv…

God's people strengthen themselves in the Lord by waiting on Him courageously. Wait on the LORD Courageously.بقلم Grant Van Leuven

بقلم Phillip Doddridge

Consider the preeminence of the old world, that perished in the flood. It possessed apparently the best, holiest and noblest men, compared with whom we are as the dregs of the world. For the Scriptures do not say that they were wicked and unjust among themselves, but toward God. "He saw," says Moses, "that they were evil." The eyes of God perceive …

God's people never give up on Him. Wait on the LORD Constantly.بقلم Grant Van Leuven

Christ has invited you to come to him with promises that he will accept of you if you do so. Christ in his word often invites those that are in your circumstances, whether we consider your circumstances as a lost sinner, or as a sinner under anxiety and concern about your condition. If we consider your circumstances merely as a lost sinner, Christ …

David is the best interpreter of his own meaning, in another place, where he says, "The wicked have no fear of God before their eyes;"73 and again, that they encourage themselves in their iniquities with the flattering persuasion that God doth not see them.74 Though they are constrained to acknowledge the existence of God, yet they rob him of his g…

By keeping the heart, we mean the diligent and constant use of all holy means to preserve the soul from sin and maintain its sweet and free communion with God. I say constant, for the reason added in the text extends the duty to all of the states and attitudes of a Christian's life, and makes it always binding. If the heart must be kept, because ou…

It is most absurd to pretend, as is asserted by some, that religion was the contrivance of a few subtle and designing men, a political machine to confine the simple multitude to their duty, while those who inculcated the worship of God on others, were themselves far from believing that any god existed.…

Worldly cares and encumbrances have greatly increased the neglect of our hearts. The heads and hearts of multitudes have been filled with such a crowd and noise of worldly business that they have lamentably declined in their zeal, their love, their delight in God, and their heavenly, serious, and profitable way of conversing with men. How miserably…

Looking Unto Jesus - 1658بقلم Isaac Ambrose

The affections are certainly entangled when they stir up frequent imaginations about the proposed object to which this deceit of sin leads and entices. When sin prevails and the affections are gone fully after it, it fills the imagination with the object, possessing the imagination with images, likenesses, and appearances of the object continually.…

Gospel Mystery of Sanctification - Direction 9We must have a good persuasion of our reconciliation with God, and of our happiness in heaven, and of our sufficient strength, both to will and to do that which is acceptable to God, through Jesus Christ, that we may be rationally inclined and bent to the practice of holiness: and that these endowments …

Spiritual gifts are indeed works and effects, but not properly fruits of the Spirit, nor are anywhere so called. They are effects of his operation upon men, not fruits of his working in them; and, therefore, many receive these gifts who never receive the Spirit as to the principal end for which he is promised. They receive him not to sanctify and m…

بقلم Thomas Sullivan

From A Challenge to Truly Live For Christبقلم C. H. Spurgeon

Many persons remain exceedingly undetermined with respect to religion. They are very much undetermined in themselves whether to embrace religion or to reject it. Many who are baptized, and make a profession of religion, and seem to be Christians, are yet in their own minds halting between two opinions: they never yet came fully to a conclusion whet…

Carnal Security in Virgin Churches.بقلم Thomas Shepard

Servants of Jesus as their Master will trust Him to serve Him and be supplied by Him. Wait on the LORD in Trust.بقلم Grant Van Leuven

I have reflected and considered with some satisfaction that this hath been my way and the temper of my mind among you. Great reason I have to repent, that I have not with greater earnestness pressed upon you the known and important things wherein serious Christians do generally agree: but I repent not I have been so little engaged in the hot contes…

The life of man full of vanity, trouble, disappointments, vexations, and endless self-dissatisfactions; which those who were wise among the heathens saw, complained of, and attempted in vain reliefs against. All these things proceed from the depravation of our nature, and the disorder that is come upon us by sin; and as, if they are not cured and h…

A soul waiting on the LORD is found waiting in His Word. Wait on the LORD in His Word.بقلم Grant Van Leuven