Abraham’s Offering Up His Son Isaac, a sermon by George Whitefield

C.H. Spurgeon – Morning and Evening
“We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Romans 8:28
Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always on the [...]

All things work together for good.
This expression work together refers to medicine. Several poisonous ingredients put together, being tempered by the skill of the apothecary, make a sovereign medicine, and work together for the good of the patient. So all God’s providences being divinely tempered and sanctified, do work together for the best to the [...]

Morning and Evening Daily Readings by C.H.Spurgeon
Evening, May 11
“Only be thou strong and very courageous.” Joshua 1:7
Our God’s tender love for his servants makes him concerned for the state of their inward feelings. He desires them to be of good courage. Some esteem it a small thing for a believer to be vexed with doubts [...]

Ears From Harvested Sheaves by J.C. Philpot
January 21
“Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”–James 5:11
The words translated “endure” and “patience” are the same in the original; and in fact, [...]

Evening, January 13
Daily Readings by C.H. Spurgeon
The iron did swim.
2 Kings 6:9
The axe-head seemed hopelessly lost, and as it was borrowed, the honour of the prophetic band was likely to be imperiled, and so the name of their God to be compromised. Contrary to all expectation, the iron was made to mount from the depth [...]

Perhaps this sermon by John Piper will bless you as it did me today.

Ears From Harvested Sheaves by J.C. Philpot
December 5
“What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.” Song of Solomon 6:13
Are you not often a mystery to yourself? Warm one moment, cold the next; abasing yourself one hour, exalting yourself the following; loving the world, full of it, steeped up [...]

The Curse of the Standard Bearers: When Idolatry Masquerades as Love by Norm Wakefield
The burden in my heart has compelled me to seek the Lord in how to minister to the growing number of families who are suffering the devastating effects of what I’ll call The Curse of the Standard Bearers. [...]