Today, the English Baptist pastor Robert Robinson (1735-1790) is best known as the author of the hymn, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing...
In 1787 at the Federal Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at a critical juncture in the writing of the U.S. Constitution, Benjamin Franklin addressed the President of the Convention...
Psalm 119:83 states, “For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.” “What an affecting picture of misery...
The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him” [Psalm 25:14]. He deals familiarly with them. He calls them not servants only, but friends; and he treats them as friends [John 15:15]...
It is significant that the psalm in which the words ‘Be still’ occur [Psalm 46] is filled with noise and commotion. The earth shakes, the waters roar and are troubled...
We do not know what a day may bring forth (Proverbs 27:1). Few of us think in the morning about what tidings we may hear or what events may befall us before night...
We might plead the word of promise with God, and humbly press His own truth upon Himself...