Peace

The Perpetuity of the Gospel

Luke 21:33

… Is not that a blessed Truth of God? He said, "Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Come …

A Searching Question

1 Samuel 30:13

… Any member whom we receive into this Church may compromise all the rest. If any one member is found in bad or suspicious company, the question is sure …

A Typical Week’s Work (Continued)

… Wednesday was the only possible time available as a mid-week Sabbath ; and whenever it could be secured for rest, its benefits were immediately manifest. Each year, on …

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Isaiah 43:2

… And is it not meet that we should each and all render to him our hearty thanks for sparing our habitations preserving the roof under which we rest …

A Strange Yet Gracious Choice

Psalm 135:4

… This brings me again to the critical question—Has the Lord made any difference between you and the rest of mankind, dear Hearers? Have you received any pledge …

A Prince and a Savior

Acts 5:31

… You shall have the "peace of God which passes all understanding" to "keep your heart and mind by Christ Jesus." "Oh," says one, "I would give my eyes …

A Pressed Man Yielding to Christ

John 9:35-38

… The Highest alone can accomplish it—has He not said of Himself, "I kill and I make alive"? The power of life and death must rest with God …

The Unwearied Runner

Isaiah 40:31

… Courage maintains itself by its running, as some birds rest on the wing. There is an energy about agility that will often give a man a fortitude which …

First Healing and then Service

Matthew 8:14

… Where the king is there, the palace is! Though our Lord went to Peter's house to rest, He did not find it free from trouble. It was …

In the Hay Field

Psalm 104:14

… How I could fall down and find rest on the grass as on a royal couch, now that I know that my God is there at work for …

Noah's Faith, Fear, Obedience, and Salvation

Hebrews 11:7

… Let us fear lest we should fall into sin, and perish with the rest of the sinners. Let no man say, "I shall never fall." Alas! those are …

To The Thoughtless

Isaiah 1:3

… If I consider how He still entreats me to be at peace with Him, I may well hear Him ask me the question, "For which of these good …

The Secret of Love to God

1 John 4:19

… Possibly you are away on a long journey and, one evening, as you are sitting down to rest, there comes a letter from your child. And as you …

The Woman Which Was a Sinner

Luke 7:37-38

… And then He gave her that choice benediction, "Go in peace," by which the peace of God which passes all understanding henceforth kept her mind—so that even …

Jesus Sitting on the Well

John 4:6

… The pain is very sharp, you get very little rest, it seems to you as if all night long you had never slept. You steal a little sleep …

Working Out What is Worked In

Philippians 2:12

… I wage no war for driving out the Canaanites." O Beloved, the time of rest will come on the other side of the Jordan, but as yet it …

Sowing and Reaping

Galatians 6:7

… And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. And whoever shall not …

All the Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20

… Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ What a wonderful source of Grace and peace! "God our Father." How …

The Doctrines of Grace Do Not Lead to Sin

Romans 6:14

… God’s choice of any one man has a bearing upon all the rest: he elects a Joseph that a whole family, a whole nation, nay, the whole …

Peter's Fall and Restoration

Luke 22:61

… He was evidently not comfortable there and he had gone out to the porch, a good way off from the rest. And then, still wanting to see the …

The Substance Of True Religion

Job 19:28

… Though the worms might devour his body till no rag or relic of him remained, yet his living Kinsman would never rest till He had cleared him and …

Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle

Solomon 5:2

… Ask the blessed Physician to make you strong so that you may tug at the guns with the rest of us, or charge the enemy at bayonet point …

Only Trust Him! Only Trust Him!

Luke 17:12-14

… Then followed joy and peace, but if we had waited till we felt joy and peace before we came, we should have been standing out against the Gospel …

Psalm 54

Psalm 54

… What cared they what innocent blood was shed so that they earned the graceless monarch's smile! David came quietly among them, hoping for a little rest in …

The Heart—a Den of Evil

Matthew 15:19

… Then we shall occupy the rest of your time by mentioning the kindred doctrines of which it reminds us. I. FIRST NOTICE THE HUMILIATING TRUTH which the Savior …

The Middle Passage

Habakkuk 3:2

… We have borne the burden and the heat of the day and we may now rest." This is fatal to progress! We shall do no more when we …

Unprofitable Servants

Matthew 25:30

… Sorrow is bound up with sin—abiding in sinfulness, a man must necessarily abide in wretchedness—for the wicked is like the troubled sea which cannot rest, whose …

From Death To Life

1 Samuel 2:6

… I wipe the hot sweat from my weary brow and would gladly rest awhile, but He says, "Reap! Reap! Reap! Reap while the morning's dew is falling …

How to Read the Bible

Matthew 12:3-7

… It flits over the landscape as a bird might do, but it builds no nest there, and finds no rest for the sole of its foot. Such reading …

Little Faith and Great Faith

Matthew 14:31

… Why could not Peter have stayed in the ship like the rest of his Brothers? But no—because his faith was weak he must quit the deck for …

The Sluggard’s Farm

… They have washed enough of their face to show the dirt upon the rest of it. “I am glad,” said a servant, “that my mistress takes the sacrament …

The Sluggard's Farm

Proverbs 24:30-32

… They have washed enough of their face to show the dirt upon the rest of it. "I am glad," said a servant, "that my mistress takes the sacrament …

Christian Resignation

Matthew 26:39

… Our hearts are, I trust, so full of the Spirit prompting us to cry, like Rachel, "Give me children, or I die," that we cannot rest content without …

The Memorable Hymn

… He leadeth me beside the still waters”? If there be a place beneath the stars where one might feel perfectly at rest and ease, surely it is at …

A Feast for the Upright

Psalm 84:11

… Let us always remember this and never rest content with merely going to a set place. Let us reckon that we have failed if we have not met …

The Elders Before The Throne

Revelation 4:4

… We are to look upon them as being the representatives of the great body of the faithful gathered to their eternal rest. Mark, then, in the first place …

The Prophet Like Unto Moses

Deuteronomy 18:15-19

… And we may rest assured it was no silent walk which Enoch had with the Most High. The Lord also spoke to Noah, once and again, and made …

"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"

2 Chronicles 24:2

… When he was but an infant, they stole him away so that Athaliah might not kill him with the rest of the royal seed. And thus Joash had …

Sweet Savor

Ezekiel 20:41

… As soon as Noah came out of the ark he offered up clean beasts, and it is said, "the Lord God smelled a sweet savor of rest." That …

The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus

2 Timothy 2:8

… it was sown in dishonor, it is raised in Glory." Let us, then, as we think of the risen Christ, rest quite sure of a future life and …