Devotional "Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it." — Psalm 81:10 What an encouragement to pray! Our human notions would lead us to ask small things because our deservings are so small; but the Lord would have us request great blessings. Prayer should be as simple a matter as the opening [...]
“So the people of Nineveh believed God” [Jonah 3:5]. The ancient city of Nineveh was the scene of an amazing revival in the ninth century B.C. This vast city, which had a huge population, was so full of sin that God said its wickedness had come up before him. The Ninevites were so [...]
Devotional "Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe." — Mark 9:23 A certain man had a demoniac son, who was afflicted with a dumb spirit. The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and therefore, when he [...]
“The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver” [Psalm 119:72]. Archibald Naismith, who invested over forty years of his life in India as a Christian teacher, tells that when his family returned home to Great Britain for a prolonged holiday, one of his sons, a boy [...]
Devotional “O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.” 1 Kings 17:21 Elijah was used literally to raise a dead lad to life. The miracle is serious history. But it is history with a powerful spiritual message for God's people concerning their service in the gospel. [...]
We were all saddened this week to learn of the death of Rev. John Bodner. He was a good friend of the Toronto church and often preached there. Although his passing was expected yet when the moment arrived, it had considerable shock to it. John had suffered from esophageal cancer for some time. [...]
Devotional "Neither will I offer... unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing." 2 Samuel 24:24 David loved the Lord and desired fellowship with Him, he often sinned, and God would chastise him to incite repentance and restore communion. David's numbering of the people and God's pestilence upon Israel [...]
I must apologize to our readers for the absence of “Bits and Pieces” on the past three Sundays. As most of you know, I spent the last seventeen days in hospital culminating in the insertion of a pacemaker. I am thankfully home again in the recuperation process. I want to take this [...]
Devotional “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD:” Hosea 6:3 Not all at once, but by degrees shall we attain to holy knowledge, and our business is to persevere and learn by little and little. We need not despair, though our progress may be slow, for we shall [...]
Devotional “So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.” (Nehemiah 8:8) Most people—even most Christians—devote very little time to the Scriptures, complaining that they are either too hard to understand or too uninteresting. Yet, when Ezra read “the [...]
Devotional "Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength." Psalm 31:4 Our spiritual foes are of the serpent's brood, a and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. The prayer before us supposes the possibility of the believer being caught like a bird. So [...]
Devotional "The bow shall be seen in the cloud." Genesis 9:14 The rainbow, the symbol of the covenant with Noah, is typical of our Lord Jesus, who is the Lord's witness to the people. When may we expect to see the token of the covenant? The rainbow is only to be seen painted [...]
