The great preacher Alexander Maclaren compared Hebrews 12:4-13 to a lighthouse. It gives the kind of teaching that we don’t notice much when the sun is shining. Like the light from a lighthouse, it doesn’t stand out very well in the day. But, when night comes, and storms begin to blast against us, it suddenly blazes [...]
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Introduction to Hebrews 12:4-13
Posted in Book of Hebrews on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Opening Lecture on Hebrews
Posted in Book of Hebrews, J. A. Seiss on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Among the many extraordinary personages who have made their appearance at different times in the Christian church, the apostle Paul is, doubtless, to be ranked as the most illustrious. Honorable in his origin, endowed with the highest order of intellect and the most daring energy of character, educated in every department of knowledge, and sanctified and [...]
“Consider the Presence of Christ”
Posted in Book of Hebrews, Joel R. Beeke on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Christ] is, at no time, absent from you, even when your faith lacks active exercise to grasp Him. Even in your thickest hours of Egyptian darkness, He is close beside you. Only of Him can it be declared: “The darkness and the light are both alike to thee” (Psalm 139:12).
How comforting this is! In all [...]
Grief
Posted in Book of Hebrews, John Newton on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Your wound, while fresh, is painful; but faith, prayer, and time will, I trust, gradually render it tolerable. There is something fascinating in grief; painful as it is, we are prone to indulge it, and to brood over the thoughts and circumstances which are suited (like fuel to fire) to heighten and prolong it. When [...]
Spurgeon’s Conversion
Posted in Book of Hebrews, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Conversion on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
But let us here recollect that Jesus Christ is the same to sinners today as He was yesterday. It is now eight years ago since I first went to Jesus Christ. Come the sixth of this month, I shall then be eight years old in the gospel of the grace of Jesus: a child, a [...]
