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“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.” -Song of Solomon 1:2 For several days we have been dwelling upon the Saviour’s passion, and for some little time to come we shall linger there. In beginning a new month, let us seek the same desires after our Lord as those which glowed in […]

“No proud man reigns–he is the slave of his boastings, the serf of his own loftiness.  The ambitious worldling grasps after a kingdom, but he does not possess one.  The humble in heart are content and in that contentment they are made to reign high!” – Charles Spurgeon Read the whole sermon text at Spurgeon […]

“The Son of man.” -John 3:13 How constantly our Master used the title, the “Son of man!” If he had chosen, he might always have spoken of himself as the Son of God, the Everlasting Father, the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Prince of Peace; but behold the lowliness of Jesus! He prefers to call himself […]

“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit.” -Luke 10:21 The Saviour was “a man of sorrows,” but every thoughtful mind has discovered the fact that down deep in his innermost soul he carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy. Of all the human race, there was never a man who had a deeper, […]

“Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?” -Luke 22:48 “The kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. Whenever a man is about to stab religion, […]

“I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.” -Luke 19:40 But could the stones cry out? Assuredly they could if he who opens the mouth of the dumb should bid them lift up their voice. Certainly if they were to speak, they would have much to testify […]

“He was heard in that he feared.” -Hebrews 5:7 Did this fear arise from the infernal suggestion that he was utterly forsaken. There may be sterner trials than this, but surely it is one of the worst to be utterly forsaken? “See,” said Satan, “thou hast a friend nowhere! Thy Father hath shut up the […]

“His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” -Luke 22:44 The mental pressure arising from our Lord’s struggle with temptation, so forced his frame to an unnatural excitement, that his pores sent forth great drops of blood which fell down to the ground. This proves how tremendous must […]

“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.” -John 17:24 O death! why dost thou touch the tree beneath whose spreading branches weariness hath rest? Why dost thou snatch away the excellent of the earth, in whom is all our delight? If thou must use thine […]

“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” -Job 38:31 If inclined to boast of our abilities, the grandeur of nature may soon show us how puny we are. We cannot move the least of all the twinkling stars, or quench so much as one of the beams of […]