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Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall

“And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him” (Gen 4:8). These were the first humans born into the world, and one killed the other.  This tendency and violent reaction toward each other has not changed over the centuries. If, as the great philosophers and thinkers would have you believe, Man has become more refined,

I invite to your attention the subject of sickness. The subject is one which we ought frequently to look in the face. We cannot avoid it. It needs no prophet’s eye to see sickness coming to each of us in turn one day. “In the midst of life we are in death.” (Matthew Henry’s commentary on 2 Kings 20). Let us turn aside for a few moments, and consider sickness as Christians. By God’s blessing

Beloved, when we came to Christ for salvation – with all the glorious things that such a “coming” entailed, and that I intend to discuss with this sermon – we at the same time also “came” to about seven additional entities – all as itemized in Heb. 12:22-24; to wit:  “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,