Category: Devotional

Surrender to Submission

Post author By Barbara Mooney
Post date July 5, 2020

gray and white pathway between green plants on vast valley

None of us will ever forget the year 2020 when the world shut down amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Worry about sickness, coping with sudden changes, and fear of the unknown have stressed both the world and our hearts. While we may not fix the world, living with anxious hearts is…

Post author By Stephen Hamilton
Post date July 1, 2020

“To as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). This is one of many promises of God held out to believing souls. It is a sad fact, however, as C.H. Spurgeon once…

Post author By Stephen Pollock
Post date October 11, 2019

I understand that not all who read this article attended the Youth Camp in July. If you’re reading these truths for the first time, that’s good. May the Lord bless them to your heart. Repetition is the way for God’s people to learn His truth. I pray that this will be…

Post author By The Editor
Post date January 8, 2019

Mothers-in-law often get a bad rap. Not too often do their sons and daughters-in-law have too much good to speak of them. However, I have to say that I was blessed to have a mother-in-law who was a real gem: a humble, hard working, gracious Christian with a big heart…

Post author By The Editor
Post date July 2, 2018

A patch of thorns is not the first place you would expect to see lilies growing, is it? No matter what kind of lily you are thinking of —some are large and some are small — they are all beautiful and delicate flowers. They are not like hard and sharp…

Post author By Geoff Banister
Post date March 10, 2018

Throughout the course of history, Christians have suffered hardships in many different ways. Perhaps you’ve heard the suggestion that if you want to know why Christians suffer, read the book of Job. At first, Job receives a high commendation from God: “And the Lord says unto Satan, Hast thou considered…

Post author By Reggie Cranston
Post date October 6, 2017

landscape photography of person's hand in front of sun

“Stay with me, I cannot bear to be left alone. O Lord help me, what have I done to suffer so much? What will become of me hereafter? No, don’t leave me, stay with me. Send even a child to stay with me, for I am on the edge of…

Post author By The Editor
Post date July 1, 2017

As I sit down with the challenge to write about my favorite hymn from among the many I love so well, I am immediately settled in my mind because today is our twelfth wedding anniversary. There is such an abundance of rich, precious hymns in our hymnal to choose from, but for…

Post author By The Editor
Post date February 12, 2017

Did you pray for your minister this week? Will you pray for the man of God who is charged with feeding your soul? If no-one in the church prays for the man called to preach the Lord’s word to precious souls he will be left to carry the load alone.…

Post author By The Editor
Post date May 27, 2016

As years go by I appreciate more and more the heritage we hold in the hymnology of the church of Christ. The hymns of the past contain not only beautiful truth, but also the expression of hundreds of years of spiritual experience preserved for the benefit of believers today. My…

Post author By The Editor
Post date January 27, 2016

Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? —Psalm 85:6 The history of Pentecost with its ten-day prayer meeting in the upper room prior to the outpouring of God’s Spirit and the history of the Great Awakenings with their prayer meetings in homes, offices, and…

Post author By The Editor
Post date April 28, 2015

Arthur Stace was brought up in Sydney, Australia, in a home in which his father was a drunkard and his mother ran a brothel. Early in life he began to drink himself, and alcohol got such a grip on his life that he was soon reduced to drinking methylated spirits…

Surrender to Submission

Trusting The Lord

A Youth Camp Reminder

Troubled But Care Free

The Lily Among Thorns

The Mystery of Suffering

There Is Hope

I Have a Shepherd

Do You Pray For Your Minister?

King Of Creation

Praying for Revival

Mr Eternity