A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.