Category: John Angell James
The Magnitude of our Blessing
Salvation — a word which none but the mind of God can comprehend, for it includes what is infinite and…
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
The apostle John seems to have set open the doors of the heavenly temple, that the sights within might beam…
Consider the mind, character, and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Think of the glory of his person, God manifest in the flesh; think of the design of his incarnation, sufferings,…
My Cross Is Become My Crown
Worldly-mindedness. So much imperfection of temper. So many things unworthy of the Christian character Be ten times more obliging, more…
Inquirers after salvation should be much more occupied in looking to Christ, than in looking into their own hearts: and that when they do look into themselves, it should be for conviction, and not for consolation.
The way to have evidences increased, is to have faith increased; and the way to have faith increased, is not…
Danger: Genuine Conversion or Self-Delusion!
The first error, and it is both a very common and a very dreadful one, which inquirers are in danger…
Faith: Belief of Something Out of Yourself
Faith is not a belief in your own personal religion, this is the assurance of hope; but it is a…
Faith and the Royal Pardon
Suppose a number of the subjects of a wise and good king were, without any just cause, to rebel against…
God’s working in us is a motive for our working: It is the breeze that wafts the ship along, but then the mariner must hoist his sail to catch it.
For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Phil 2:13…
“What shall I do to be saved?”
Let no one turn off your attention from this matter. As long as you covet this, your eye, and heart,…
The Life of Faith! An Heavenly Life! The Life of God in the Soul of Man!
To a believer that walks with God, God lets fall now and then some handfuls of that harvest, some drops…