Three Stages in every Great Work of God – Hudson Taylor

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Rich Moore

Three Stages in every Great Work of God - Hudson Taylor

“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”

– Hudson Taylor

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Fearless devotion to Jesus Christ – Oswald Chambers

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Rich Moore

Fearless devotion to Jesus Christ - Oswald Chambers

“Fearless devotion to Jesus Christ ought to mark the saint today, but more often it is devotion to our set that marks us. We are more concerned about being in agreement with Christians than about being in agreement with God.”

– Chambers, Oswald: Run Today’s Race

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John MacDuff – He had to Borrow whatever He Needed (Christian devotional reading)

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Rich Moore

John MacDuff – He had to Borrow whatever He Needed (Christian devotional reading)

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2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

Ephesians 3:19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

JOHN MACDUFF (1818 – 1895)

“For sound doctrine, presented Scripturally
and devotionally, with its application to the
Christian life, you cannot go beyond MacDuff.”

“MacDuff writes popularly, yet he is by no
means shallow. For an hour’s pleasant and
holy reading, commend us to MacDuff!”
—Charles Spurgeon

Macduff, John Ross, D.D., second son of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, near Perth, was born at Bonhard, May 23, 1818. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, he became in 1842 parish minister of Kettins, Forfarshire, in 1849 of St. Madoes, Perthshire, and in 1855 of Sandyford, Glasgow. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1862, and about the same time also from the University of New York. He retired from pastoral work in 1871, lived at Chislehurst, Kent and died in 1887. He has published many practical and devotional works which have attained a wide circulation. In 1857 he was appointed by the General Assembly a member of their Hymnal Committee. His 31 hymns appeared in his Altar Stones, 1853, and were also included with his later poems in his The Gates of Praise, 1876. Of these hymns the following are in common use.:—
1. Christ Is coming! Let creation. Second Advent.
2. Eternal Rock! To Thee I flee. (1853.) Christ the Rock.
3. Everlasting arms of love. (1853.) Support in Christ.
4. From Thy habitation holy. Whitsuntide. I
5. Hasten, Lord, that morn of glory. Second Advent.
6. Jesus wept! Those tears are over. (1853.) The raising of Lazarus.
7. O do not, blessed Lord, depart. Christ’s presence desired.
8. Where shall I look for holy calm. (1853.) Passiontide.
9. Why should I murmur or repine? Resignation.

Of these hymns those dated 1953 are parts only of Dr. Macduff’s originals.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

– John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Book of Acts – Audio Bible Reading ( New Testament / NASB )

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Rich Moore

Book of Acts – Audio Bible Reading ( New Testament / NASB )

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To be Continually Worrying – Oswald Chambers

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Rich Moore

To be Continually Worrying - Oswald Chambers

To be continually worrying—“Does God want me to say this or do that?” is to be in an infirm condition. There is no light of the knowledge of the glory of God in that, it means I am a self-conscious spiritual prig.

– Chambers, Oswald: Run Today’s Race

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The ills of Life are often Blessings in Disguise – Matthew Henry

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Rich Moore

The ills of Life are often Blessings in Disguise - Matthew Henry

“What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.”

– Matthew Henry

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They must be Given from Above – John Newton

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Rich Moore

They must be Given from Above - John Newton

“None but He who made the world can make a Minister of the Gospel. If a young man has capacity, culture and application, it may make him a scholar, a philosopher, or an orator; but a true Minister must have certain principles, motives, feelings, and aims, which no industry or endeavors of men can either acquire or communicate. They must be given from above, or they cannot be received.”

– John Newton

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J. C. Ryle on Salvation and Regeneration

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Rich Moore

J. C. Ryle on Salvation and Regeneration

J. C. Ryle on Salvation and Regeneration

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More than Conquerors – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Rich Moore

More than Conquerors - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

It is not a true Gospel that gives us the impression that the Christian life is easy, and that there are no problems to be faced. That is not the New Testament teaching. The New Testament is most alarming at first, indeed terrifying, as it shows us the problems by which we are confronted. But follow it-go on! It does not stop halfway, it goes on to this addition, this second half; and here it shows us the way in which, though that is the truth concerning the battle, we can be enabled to wage it, and not only to wage it, but to triumph in it. It shows us that we are meant to be “more than conquerors.”

– Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Romans 8

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Thomas Watson (Puritan) – An Excellent way of Commenting upon the Bible (Christian devotional)

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Rich Moore

Thomas Watson (Puritan) – An Excellent way of Commenting upon the Bible (Christian devotional)

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Thomas Watson – (ca. 1620-1686), English non-conformist Puritan preacher and author

Psalm 119:97 Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.

Watson was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was noted for remarkably intense study. In 1646 he commenced a sixteen year pastorate at St. Stephen’s, Walbrook. He showed strong Presbyterian views during the civil war, with, however, an attachment to the king, and in 1651 he was imprisoned briefly with some other ministers for his share in Christopher Love’s plot to recall Charles II of England. He was released on June 30, 1652, and was formally reinstated as vicar of St. Stephen’s Walbrook.

Watson obtained great fame and popularity as a preacher until the Restoration, when he was ejected for nonconformity. Notwithstanding the rigor of the acts against dissenters, Watson continued to exercise his ministry privately as he found opportunity. Upon the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 he obtained a license to preach at the great hall in Crosby House. After preaching there for several years, his health gave way, and he retired to Barnston, Essex, where he died suddenly while praying in secret. He was buried on 28 July 1686.

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