Sermons & Devotionals by Thomas Reade

39. CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP "Finally, all of you should be of one mind, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds." 1 Peter 3:8 What a lovely object would the Church of Christ present to the world, did all its members live in the spirit of the gospel. Th... Read More

40. Christian Perseverance "Faint, yet pursuing." Judges 8:4 The journey of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan affords an instructive history to the Christian pilgrim. The opposition, dangers, trials, and temptations, which beset his path; the unbelief, misgivings, fears, and rebellions of his own ... Read More

PREFACE The Bible is the sacred storehouse of heavenly wisdom. Its pages are stamped with the divine seal of eternal truth, and contain the charter of our hopes, our privileges, and our joys. Whatever tends to lead us from the love and study of the Holy Scriptures, should be dreaded as inimical to t... Read More

67. CHRIST'S INTERCESSORY PRAYER "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter to be with you forever." John 14:16 The last discourses which our Savior held with his disciples, closing them with his intercessory prayer, have been, and ever will be, a source of the richest consol... Read More

1. COMMUNION WITH GOD "When I awake, I am still with you." Psalm 139:18 Communion with God is the privilege of every true believer. He alone can approach the mercy-seat in the spirit of adoption, and enjoy a foretaste of heaven while journeying towards it. John felt all this happiness when he wrote:... Read More

CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS ON PAUL'S CHARACTER. The character and experience of Paul, though imperfectly delineated in the foregoing pages, show the nature and blessedness of Christianity. Its heavenly doctrines, its consoling promises, its holy precepts, were so many sources of light, joy, and purity, ... Read More

15. CONVERSION OF THE HEART TO GOD "Turn me again to you and restore me, for you alone are the Lord my God." Jeremiah 31:18 What a wonderful work is the conversion of the heart to God. How far beyond the conception and power of the natural man. It is the work of God. Repenting Ephraim prayed, "Turn ... Read More

26. ON HYPOCRISY, AND DEADNESS TO THE WORLD "In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness." Matthew 23:28 "You are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." Col. 3:3. The Bible addresses the hypocrite, and the s... Read More

54. EARNEST DESIRES FOR PARDONING AND SANCTIFYING GRACE "For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity; for it is great." Psalm. 25:11 "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10 David's plea must be mine; "O Lord pardon my iniquity for it is great." Also ... Read More

12. EARNEST DESIRES FOR CHRIST "My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you." Isaiah 26:9 Few people are insensible to the happiness of friendship, though few, comparatively, possess a real friend. Worldly friendships are often little better than "confederacies in vic... Read More

57. EXPERIMENTAL RELIGION "I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return." 2 Tim. 1:12 To talk about Christian Experience is, by some people considered little short of enthusiasm. To try to enlist the affections on the... Read More

58. THE UNPROFITABLE NATURE OF EXTERNAL RELIGION, WHEN MADE A SUBSTITUTE FOR GODLINESS "Having a form of godliness but denying its power." 2 Timothy 3:5 Gracious God! impress this truth upon every heart, that all who call themselves Christians may live under its saving influence– that externals of r... Read More

16. FAITH WORKING BY LOVE "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love." Galatians 5:6 When Adam fell, all his posterity fell in him. The Law being holy, just, and good, condemned the fallen race of Ada... Read More

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS WHICH PAUL ENDURED FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL. When Daniel stood before Nebuchadnezzar to explain his dream, he shunned not to declare the whole counsel of God, however galling it might be to the ambition of this haughty conqueror. He told him of the fleeting nature of... Read More

51. GOD THE REFUGE FOR HIS PEOPLE "I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, and my fortress; my God; in him will I trust." Psalm 91:2 What a marvelous truth, that God, against whom man has sinned, should himself become the sinner's Refuge from the guilt and punishment of sin. Here, you behold, O my ... Read More

27. HUMAN CORRUPTION AND ABOUNDING GRACE "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." Romans 5:2O All orthodox Christians agree on the doctrine of the Fall; that the whole human race fell in Adam, as their federal head; and that we are by nature the children of wrath. They agree in this truth, ... Read More

28. INDWELLING SIN "But if I am doing what I don't want to do, I am not really the one doing it; the sin dwelling within me is doing it." Romans 7:20 Sin, in all its forms, is hateful to God. He beholds it with abhorrence, and has declared that "the soul that sins, it shall die." All men are dead un... Read More

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE VALUE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. PREFACE. This little treatise has no pretensions to novelty, being on subjects which form the daily meditation of the devout Christian, and from which he derives his purest enjoyment; neither does the Author presume to vie with thos... Read More

42. THE DANGER OF EXTREMES IN MEN'S ESTIMATE OF HUMAN NATURE "To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no light in them." Isaiah 8:20 People, in general, are acquainted with almost everything but themselves. The common affairs of life are ... Read More

30. MOURNING OVER SIN AND HATRED OF IT "I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning." Psalm 38:6 A lover of the world will perhaps say, If the effect of religion is to make me like a mourner bowed down with grief at the funeral of some beloved friend, let me escape it. Lif... Read More