What is Happiness? What is it not? Where can you get it? John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) answers these questions and many others in this sermon titled Happiness, which was first published in 1878. Happy is that people whose God is the Lord. Psalm 144:15 An infidel was once addressing a crowd of people in the open air….
I ASK you a plain question at the beginning of a new year: Are you ready? It is a solemn thing to part company with the old year. It is a still more solemn thing to begin a new one. It is like entering a dark passage: we know not what we may meet before…
Look within, each one of you. Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don’t delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing, darkens the eyes of the mind so much,…
1 Corinthians 1:18 KJVFor the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 1 Corinthians 1:23 KJV Reducing consumer resistance is something that producers do in…
A smiling world is worse than a frowning one. She saith, “I cannot smite the man low with my repeated blows, I will take off my mailed glove, and showing him a fair white hand, I’ll bid him kiss it. I will tell him I love him: I will flatter him, I will speak good…
Suppose for a moment that you were allowed to enter heaven without holiness (unholy man). What would you do? What possible enjoyment could you feel there? To which of all the saints would you join yourself and by whose side would you sit? Their pleasures are not your pleasures, their tastes are not your tastes,…
