A Quake That Shook England by Greg Gordon
Unadulterated Christianity
GEORGE FOX ALONE HAS, without human learning, done more than any other reformer in Protestant Christendom towards the restoration of real, primitive, unadulterated Christianity and the destruction of priest craft, superstiti ... read more
Are We Playing By The Book? by Vance Havner
WHEN A GROUP OF SMALL BOYS out to play ball, arrived at the play ground, they discovered that no one had brought a ball. Forget the ball, said one impatiently. Lets get on with the game. We are trying to play without the ball when the Church tries to ... read more
Broken Down Altars by Billy Sunday
God Sends A Prophet
AS WE READ THE BIBLE we will notice that always in a dark time God sends a prophet to arouse, stir and call the people back to the true God. So in this instance, when the situation looked dark, God sent His messenger to warn the peo ... read more
Church Be Still! by C.H. Spurgeon
THE CHURCH WOULD SOON BE healed of her sorrows, and delivered from her divisions, if she would for a while be silent; but the voice of a favorite teacher is heard by some, and the voice of another master in Israel is listened to by others, and so Gods vo ... read more
Following Hard After God! by A.W. Tozer
HOW TRAGIC THAT WE IN this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of accepting Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to cra ... read more
Girolamo Savonarola by David Smithers
IN JAMES 5:10 WE ARE EXHORTED to take the prophets for an example. A careful study of the Holy Men of Old can kindle both the fires of self-sacrifice and prayerful devotion. However, prophetic examples are not confined only to the pages of the Scriptu ... read more
Having Begun In The Spirit by Andrew Murray
THE WORDS FROM WHICH I wish to address you, you will find in the epistle to the Galatians, the third chapter, the second and third verses: This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye ... read more
How Salvation is to be Sought by Jonathan Edwards
A Great Undertaking
THUS DID NOAH; ACCORDING to all that God commanded him, so did he (Genesis 6:22). We should be willing to engage in and go through great undertakings, in order to our own salvation.
The building of the ark, which was enjoined u ... read more
Keep Praying Until God Answers by R.A. Torrey
THE CENTRAL LESSON in this parable of the friend at midnight: When we pray, if we do not obtain the thing the first time, pray again; and if we do not obtain it the second time, pray a third time; and if we do not obtain it the hundredth time, go on prayi ... read more
Philip Jacob Spener by David Smithers
IN EVERY GENERATION GOD HAS had a remnant that strived to restore true Christianity according to the Apostolic pattern. 17th century Germany was the home of just such a people known as the Pietist. The Pietist yearned and prayed to see the Church restored ... read more
Prayer and Revival by J. Edwin Orr
The Hope For Revival
DR. A.T. PIERSON ONCE SAID, There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. Let me recount what God has done through concerted, united, sustained prayer. Not many people ... read more
Richard Baxter by David Smithers
MANY WITHIN THE CHURCH feel as if they are drowning in a river of empty words and hollow promises. Demoralized by superficial religion, their hungry hearts are crying out, Where is the REAL Church, mighty in truth and power? There are many who can give ... read more
Ten Marks of a Flesh-Pleaser by Richard Baxter
THE SIGNS OF A FLESH-PLEASER or sensualist are these:
The Service of God
1. When a man in his desire to please his appetite, does not do it with a view to a higher end, that is to say to the preparing himself for the service of God; but does it only ... read more
The Marks of the New Birth by George Whitefield
MATTHEW 18:3 - VERILY I SAY unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
I suppose I may take it for granted, that all of you, among whom I am now about to preach the kingdom of God, ... read more
The Power Of Persevering Prayer by Andrew Murray
AND THE LORD SAID, Men ought always to pray, and not to faint
There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for ... read more
The Uplifted Christ by R.A. Torrey
IN A RECENT ADVERTISEMENT OF A Sunday evening service in one of our American cities it was stated that there would be three attractions: a high-class movie show, a popular gospel pianist and his wife, rendered by a well-known prima donna. It is somewhat s ... read more
Unction! by Leonard Ravenhill
THE CINDERELLA OF THE CHURCH today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy, neither is she enchanting with the tiara of ... read more
Undefiled Religion by George Fox
Trust Not In Man
FRIENDS, TRUST NOT IN MAN, nor in the arm of flesh, neither put confidence in them, but in the Lord. Judge yourselves, and keep down the boaster, and that which would be high; under judgment keep that down, but the power of God in your ... read more
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