Category Archives: The Truth is Still The Truth

Meet the conditions, receive the promised blessings

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinancesContinue reading “Meet the conditions, receive the promised blessings”

But now, all everywhere are commanded to repent

“For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;Continue reading “But now, all everywhere are commanded to repent”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 19—Parental Influences (Part 3) Mothers Are an Example—If mothers would have their daughters come to womanhood with healthful bodies and virtuous characters, they must in their own lives set the example, guarding them against the health-destroying fashions of this age. Christian mothers have resting upon them a responsibility which they doContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Let us cleanse ourselves…

“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, thatContinue reading “Let us cleanse ourselves…”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 19—Parental Influences (Part 2) Father, the Family House-Band—A Christian father is the house-band of his family, binding them close to the throne of God. Never is his interest in his children to flag. The father who has a family of boys should not leave these restless boys wholly to theContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

True change does not begin with outward “reform”

“Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. For beholdContinue reading “True change does not begin with outward “reform””