(Here is a Youtube presentation of tune): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTdv0GMJP8 1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. John 14:1 (KJV) This hymn was written by Edgar P. Stites in 1876 and first appeared as a poem in a newspaper of that time. When Dwight L. Moody saw [...]
by Timothy George, June 16, 2017 (Timothy George is the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama; general editor of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture; and a fellow for the Center of Baptist Renewal.) During seven years of graduate study at Harvard University, I frequently passed through Johnson Gate into Harvard Yard [...]
“And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge [...]
“The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.” Isaiah 44:13 (all scripture quoted is [...]
“O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob [...]
“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. [...]
20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. Phil 1:20 (KJV) The annals of the China Inland Mission are filled with glorious [...]
9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest [...]
THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH. Part I of Psalms 91, a Devotion for 23 August 2017 Anno Domini “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; [...]
“ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will [...]