ephesians-3:8

Grace Gems for DECEMBER 2005 The path of the scissors! (Lewis Bayly, "The Practice of Piety" 1611) "For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have, that you did not receive?" 1 Corinthians 4:7 We are all . . . fashioned from the same mold, hewed out of the same rock, made as it were,... Read More

Grace Gems for NOVEMBER 2005 How can I flaunt myself proudly? (A Puritan Prayer) Merciful Father, Do not let pride swell my heart. My body is made from the mire beneath my feet, the dust to which I shall return. In body I am no better than the vilest reptile. Whatever difference of form and intellec... Read More

Grace Gems for OCTOBER 2004 A cup of love! (John MacDuff, "Gleams from the Sick Chamber" 1882) "But what could I say? For He Himself had sent this sickness. Now I will walk humbly throughout my years because of this anguish I have felt." Isaiah 38:15 God Himself has mixed your bitter cup, and led yo... Read More

“Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.” - Ephesians 3:8. Mark how the apostle describes the evangel- “the unsearchable riches of Christ!” It suggests the figure of a man standing, with uplifted hands, i... Read More

“And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.” 2 Kings 5:2 Strange though it may seem, the little maid referred to in this chapter became an outstanding channel for God’s blessing to a dark and needy... Read More

/2/ Some may, perhaps, be anxious to know who the author of the following pages is, his name, and to what denomination he belongs. Let it suffice to say, that he considers himself connected with no party, nor wishes to be known by the name of any -- he feels himself united to that one body of which ... Read More

Beloved, In reading the word of God, it becomes us ever to remember that the sacred pages are a transcript of the perfections of the infinite God, who is the "high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy;" (Isa. 57:15) a Being whose omniscient eye beholds the end from the beginnin... Read More

2 Chronicles 17:1-19 - And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. (Read More...) Genesis 4:1-26 - And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. (Read More...) 1 Timothy 5:8 - But if any provide n... Read More

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Daniel 9:3 - And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Romans 2:29 - But he [is] a ... Read More

Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God -- I Corinthians 10:32 Whoever reads the Bible with any attention cannot fail to perceive that more than half of its contents relate to one nation: the Israelites. He perceives, too, that they have a distinct place... Read More