Peace

All-Sufficiency Magnified

Philippians 4:13

… to condemn you, because, having means and opportunity, you use the village for rest, but never seek to do any good in it! Take care, masters and mistresses …

Grace Abounding

Hosea 14:4

… old Rome to her very foundations, methinks must give poor sinners comfort and peace. I know that many will see nothing in it. Of course, none but the …

The Plumb Line

Amos 7:7

… Have any of you fallen into sin? Rest assured that God did not build you in that way. Have sinful desires and lusts after evil been excited within …

"Do You Love Me?"

John 21:16

… hear him again—even if he preaches Christ most preciously in all the rest of his discourse, it is nothing, because he cannot say correctly their "Shibboleth." What …

A Sad Interior and a Cheery Messenger

Mark 16:10

… my flesh also shall rest in hope." Though my body shall see corruption, yet it shall be raised in glory, and power, and incorruption, like that risen body …

A Basket of Summer Fruit

Amos 8:1-2

… May it be yours and mine, as many years as we shall live, to be each of us ripening for the "rest which remaineth for the people of …

How Hearts Are Softened

Zechariah 12:10

… our sins in His own body on the tree." "The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed." Brothers and Sisters, the …

Two Ancient Proverbs

Proverbs 29:25

… to the Cardinal's confession that, upon the whole it is safest to rest upon what Christ has done! Upon the whole i t is better to trust …

The Sinner'S Advocate

1 John 2:1

… And through that Advocate your cause shall rest and your sin shall be put away. Perhaps you will tell me that your sin has had some gross aggravation …

A Question for You

John 9:35

… of God"—as much as to say, "If you do, never mind the rest." Jesus did not ask him to comfort himself with the thought that he had …

A Great Gospel for Great Sinners

1 Timothy 1:15-17

… Thanks be unto the Holy Spirit for giving us eyes of faith to see him that is invisible, and hearts to trust and to rest upon an invisible …

Seeing Jesus

Hebrews 2:9

… which appears but to fade away, deluding the weary traveler with hopes of rest and refreshment, and leaving him sick at heart because all has passed as the …

Hideous Discovery

Mark 7:20-23

… we shall be wise to forego so proud a question, for we may rest assured that we are dog enough for anything if the Grace of God is …

The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise

Psalm 145:7

… How sweet is that canticle—"Mercy and Truth are met together, and Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other." The Atonement is the gem of the heart's …

'Take Away the Frogs'

Exodus 8:8

… Amen.What dignity has God put upon ancient Israel! How favored far beyond any of us in these particulars! They had the Light of God when the rest …

The Sinner's Savior

Luke 19:7

… The Friend of sinners is too much their Friend to befriend their sin—that He utterly abhors and He will never rest till He has driven it out …

The Top of the Ladder

Ephesians 3:19

… As a child lies on its mother's bosom, so may you rest upon the love of Christ, leaning all your weight upon Him. May you never have …

The Final Separation

Matthew 25:32

… Perhaps the Lord may use the thought of this separation to move some of you to say, "I will come to Jesus and I will rest in Him …

Truthfulness

Jeremiah 5:3

… His eyes are upon that which is truthful about us and all the rest is not worthy of His notice. For instance, suppose I say, "I repent." The …

Amazing Grace

Isaiah 57:18

… He takes away the comfort we once had in our false peace and he makes us mourn for sin. But after a while He restores comfort to us …

The Holy Spirit’s Intercession

Romans 8:26

… He can lay certain desires so pressingly upon our hearts that we can never rest till they are fulfilled. He can make the zeal for God’s house …

The Silver Trumpet

Isaiah 1:18

… The Lord in vengeance dressed Shall lift His hand and swear 'You that despise My promised rest, Shall have no portion there.'" Let me dismiss you with the …

Our Lord's Humanity a Sweet Source of Comfort

Daniel 10:18

… You are safe here"—this is rest, indeed! To get back to Jesus and say, "Now am I neither of Paul, nor of Apollos, nor of Cephas, but …

Laboring And Not Fainting

Revelation 2:3

… He has to deny himself, for he would like to be at rest. He sees his comrade, perhaps, lounging against yonder pillar or stretching himself at ease upon …

The Sower

Matthew 13:3

… of the Lord, to the children, till, first of all, Christ has spoken peace and pardon to their own hearts and He has been formed in them the …

Sermon for New Year's-Day

Revelation 21:5

… We will give him no rest until he hears us. But come! Are we to be praying for you, and you not praying for yourselves? Do you not …

Two Arguments Against Sin

Jeremiah 44:4

… said our prayers, or, if we had told a lie, we could not rest till we had confessed it. And if we had disobeyed our parents, we were …

An Instructive Truth

Jeremiah 10:23

… will keep on wandering further and further and further from the way of peace and holiness, for, "it is not in man who walks to direct his steps …

The Judgment Seat Of God

Romans 14:10-12

… of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the …

Concentration and Diffusion

John 12:3

… the same office, but each one must lovingly supplement the office of the rest and emulation and jealousy must never enter among us. We will now forget the …

The Holy Spirit's Chief Office

John 16:14

… If so, we may glory in infirmity, that the power of Christ may rest upon us! It is not merely we, who speak, but the Spirit of the …

Salvation Altogether By Grace

… a great and precious general text, but it is quite consistent with the rest of the same verse—"All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me …

Paul—His Cloak And His Books

2 Timothy 4:13

… He was ready to be a peace offering, if God willed it, to die in his bed. In any case, he was a freewill offering unto God, for …

Three Homilies From One Text

Matthew 4:23-25

… and those who had the palsy; and He healed them." Let the emphasis rest upon those few words, "They brought unto Him all sick people." We have here …

Mocked of the Soldiers

Matthew 27:29

… And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink The rest …

The Pierced One Pierces The Heart

Zechariah 12:10

… It is so sweet a sorrow that we can only thank God we are permitted to enjoy and to suffer it until we enter into our eternal rest …

Fathers In Christ

1 John 2:13

… Very probably my former opinion is not, now, true, for all things are flowing on and my head is swimming with the rest. I am a man of …

Acceptable Service

Hebrews 12:28

… the kingdom within us—it is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit! The Spirit of God within a man is …

The First Day Of Creation

Genesis 1:4

… And so the Grace of God produces joy and peace wherever it is shed abroad. Light reveals and so does Grace, for without it we could not see …

Grappling Irons

Psalm 119:88

… overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of My God and he shall go no more out." May the best of blessings rest upon you. Amen.