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God IS Love. It is not that He just acts lovingly. He IS in His very essence LOVE. The glory of God as seen in Jesus, manifests this clearly. Jesus did not just perform acts of love. He went about "doing good" (Acts 10:38). But that was because the love of God flooded His whole being. Love has its o... Read More

Peter could become a compassionate apostle only after he had blundered and fallen into the sin of denying the Lord three times. It was certainly not God's perfect will for Peter to sin like that. But yet we see that God allowed it in order to do a work in Peter. It made him tender and sympathetic to... Read More

I remember George Warnock frequently pointing out (in the little home gatherings I once was part of) that he’d never seen a painting of Peter walking on the water. It’s always of Peter going under. “Why is it that artists never paint Peter walking on the water to go to Jesus?” George would ask. “Pet... Read More

PROPHETS. Prophets were men in the church who spoke under the direct impulse of the Holy Spirit and whose main motivation and concern were with the spiritual life and purity of the church. Under the new covenant they were raised up and empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring a message from God to His ... Read More

ALL OF "GRACE QUOTES" FROM JANUARY 2003 IN ONE FILE Jesus! (Octavius Winslow, "Evening Thoughts") What is our path to glory, but the path of tribulation, of suffering, and of death? Our Lord and Master, in the expression of His wisdom and love, forewarns us of this: "In the world you shall have trib... Read More

Deception by evil spirits in modern times In the special onslaught of the deceiver, which will come upon the whole of the true Church of Christ at the close of the age, through the army of deceiving spirits, there are some more than others who are specially attacked by the powers of darkness, who ne... Read More

The apostles and their co-workers received the Double Cure at Pentecost when they were filled with the Holy Ghost and their hearts were purified by faith. (Acts 15:8, 9.) Prior to Pentecost they were: I. TRULY CONVERTED. -- This is overwhelmingly proved by the following facts: They had received the ... Read More

THE THREE WALLS OF THE ROMANISTS The Romanists[1], with great adroitness, have built three walls about them, behind which they have hitherto defended themselves in such wise that no one has been able to reform them; and this has been the cause of terrible corruption throughout all Christendom. First... Read More

There is nothing so absurd but if you repeat it often enough people will believe it. Dr. William James, the Father of Modern Psychology. We might miss the strength of these statements (Matt 7:21-23 and here) unless we realize that repeating a person's name is a Hebrew expression of intimacy. When Go... Read More

The Fourth piece in the Christian’s panoply presents itself in this verse to our consideration —and that is The Shield of Faith. A grace of graces it is, and here fitly placed in the midst of her other companions. It stands, methinks, among them, as the heart in the midst of the body; or, if you ple... Read More