The Glorious Providence of God.

From Octavius Winslow: God rules the kingdom of providence. His hand is moving and controlling all events and circumstances, national and social, public and private; giving birth, and shape, and tint to those phenomena in the history of nations, and to those affairs in the history of individuals, which...

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The Power of God in Creation.

From James Hervey (1789): Who, that looks upward to the midnight sky; and, with an eye of reason, beholds its rolling wonders; who can forbear enquiring [sic], Of what were their mighty orbs formed? Amazing to relate, they were produced without materials. They sprung from emptiness itself. The stately fabric of universal nature emerged out of nothing.  What instruments were used by the Supreme...

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The Holiness of God Revealed at Calvary's Cross

From Stephen Charnock: Not all the vials of judgment that have or shall be poured out upon the wicked world, nor the flaming furnace of a sinner's conscience, nor the irreversible sentence pronounced against the rebellious demons, nor the groans of the damned creatures, give such a demonstration of God's hatred of sin, as the wrath of God let loose upon His Son. Never did Divine holiness appear...

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The Holy Spirit is Gracious

The Holy Spirit is, emphatically, the gracious Spirit. All that he does for us, and all that he works within us — is of grace. His grace is his glory, and he glories in his grace. We may obtain his presence, and receive his blessing in answer to prayer — but we can never deserve either, nor can we by any works we perform merit them.  He graciously . . . quickens the...

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Teach Your Children the Fear of the LORD

Teach Your Children the Fear of the LORD Geoffrey R. Kirkland Christ Fellowship Bible Church Psalm 34:11 Text [34:12 Hebrew]:  לְכוּ־בָנִים שִׁמְעוּ־לִי יִרְאַת יְהוָה אֲלַמֶּדְכֶם Psalm 34:10 Author’s Translation: Come, O children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the LORD. Teach...

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