INTRODUCTION: Yesterday, we had a temporary power outage in my hometown which lasted several hours. I was unable to use my laptop to write my devotions, so I took the opportunity to pull my Fifth Grade Reader off the shelf and do some reading and remembering. These kinds of readings are my own devotional times. [...]
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of [...]
“And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. And [...]
“And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.” (Revelation 14:13: all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) HORATIUS BONAR – the [...]
“The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” (Jeremiah 31:3; all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) I will begin this devotion with a story: “The BEE has been aptly described as “busy.” To produce one [...]
“And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.” Matthew 26:30, Mark 14:26 KJV Have you considered the difference between the ancient and classical hymns of the Church and the light and often frivolous ‘kum –bah-yah’ songs of the modern Church? Do you not feel a spiritual difference when [...]
“It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” (Luke 4:4: all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) “I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that [...]
“So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Who in the days of his flesh, when he [...]
Personification of Wisdom (Σοφία, Sophía) at the Celsus Library in Ephesus (2nd century). “My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, [...]
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6: all scripture quoted is from the King James Version) COLLECT - THIRD SUNDAY AFTER [...]