Monthly Archives: December 2024

“Nothing in this world can change the deceitful and desperately wicked heart of man and cause it to do service for God.”  (Joseph Caryl  1602-1673)

“When God speaks peace, it is a peace beyond all expression, the peace of God that passes all understanding; it cannot be uttered.”  (William Bridge; 1600-1671)

“The wages that sin bargains with the sinner are life, pleasure and profit; but the wages it pays him with are death, torment, and destruction.  He that would understand the falsehood and deceit of sin must compare its promises and … Continue reading →

“Faith accepts the present remission of sins; hope is the expectation of future deliverance.”  (Phillip Melanchthon, 1497-1560)

“Love causes believers to take all things that God sends them favorably and in good part.”  (John Albert Bengel  1687-1752)

We have his free promise, who never failed, who has promised more than possibly we could ask or think, who has done more for us than ever he promised, who is good and bountiful to the wicked and ungodly; who … Continue reading →

“My soul is greatly agitated. Rendered vexed in Ps. 6:3.  There are no troubles like soul troubles.  Sin will mar anything.  It will make any soul wretched.”  (Joseph  Addison Alexander, 1860)

“Taking counsel in the soul will drive us in every direction and cause us to surmise things that are so alien to the truth of God that once enlightened, we will shutter at such wild extremes.  Yet, is not this … Continue reading →

“In respect to any mere natural difficulty, God’s almighty power is more than sufficient to overcome it. There are certain things which may be said to be impossible with God himself—not from any defect of power on his part but … Continue reading →

“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed. The divine excellence of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials.”  (Jonathan Edwards; 1703-1758)