Sacred Times

All days are holy, but some are more so; all moments can be sacred but not unless we set some aside to be intensely so.

A Devotional Schedule

I will (1) rise every morning sufficiently early and have a few minutes, not less than five, in private prayer; (2) avoid all the babbling and idle talking ...

Prayer on the Farm

Living on the farm, as my grandfather did, enabled him to choose a different way of life and to live by his own light. And his light certainly was the ...

Real Retreat

When Jesus went up on a mountainside by Himself to pray, we can rest assured He wasn't heading off for the latest Rabbi Retreat featuring "The ...

Use It or Lose It

A fellow who had been reared in the city bought a farm and several milk cows. In the feed store one day he complained his best cow had gone dry.

"Aren't ...

Jesus at Prayer

How much prayer meant to Jesus! It was not only his regular habit, but his resort in every emergency, however slight or serious. When perplexed he prayed. ...

Too Busy to Pray?

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should ...

God Will Not Be Put Off

The Word of God is demanding. It demands a stretch of time in our day--even though it be a very modest one--in which it is our only companion. ... God ...

The Law in Our Language

John Wycliffe's respect for the authority of Scripture drove him to promote an English translation of the Bible. The church bitterly opposed it: "By ...

A Holy Truism

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the ...