| › Introduction - Devotional Hours
with the Bible
J. R. Miller,
1911
Volume 8.
From the Acts, the Epistles and Revelation
This eight volume set was published ...read |
| › Chapter 1 - Christ's Ascension - Acts 1:1-14
The Ascension was part of the work of Christ as our Savior. It was not the end of it. The Gospel narrative is described by Luke as "all ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - The Holy Spirit Given - Acts 2:1-13
This is the story of the beginning of the Christian Church. It was fifty days after the death of Christ. It did not occur at a conventi ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - A Multitude Converted - Acts 2:32-47
Everyone had a theory of the strange things that had happened. Some accepted the events as divine manifestations. Some mocked and ridi ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - The Lame Man Healed - Acts 3:1-11
It could not have been more than a few weeks or months after the day of Pentecost. The apostles were busy teaching the three thousand c ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - The Trial of Peter and John - Acts 4:1-31
The healing of the lame man made a great stir in the temple. Peter at once began to speak to the wondering people, explaining the mirac ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - The Sin of Lying - Acts 5:1-11
There are blemishes on the fairest human beauty. The best man, has his faults and imperfections. The holiest periods of the church, hav ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - The Apostles Imprisoned - Acts 5:17-32
The sin of Ananias and Sapphira and the swift judgment that followed, did not check the progress of the Church. "Nevertheless, more an ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - Stephen the First Martyr - Acts 6:1-8, 7:54 to 8:2
Stephen is one of the most interesting characters in the New Testament. His story is short--but intense. His work belongs t ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - The Disciples Dispersed - Acts 8:1-17
The first glimpse we have of Saul is in the martyrdom of Stephen. The record is that he was consenting unto Stephen's death. He was pre ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - The First Ethiopian Convert - Acts 8:26-40
Stephen was gone; his voice was hushed--but another worker rose up and took his place. "God buries his workmen--but carries on his wor ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - The Conversion of Saul - Acts 9:1-30
Before conversion Saul was as intense in his zeal for the destroying of Christianity, as he was after his conversion in his efforts to ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - Peter and Cornelius - Acts 10:1-20
It was not easy for Peter to go to the house of Cornelius. All his life he had been trained to Jewish exclusiveness as part of his rel ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - Gentiles Converted at Antioch - Acts 11:19-26
After the death of Stephen, the believers in Christ were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria. And as they traveled- ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - Peter Delivered From Prison - Acts 12:1-17
One day James and John asked Jesus that they might be given exalted positions in the Master's Kingdom. Mark 10:37. They knew not what ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - The First Christian Missionaries - Acts 13:1-13
We are told that "there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers." There were many of these more than were ...read |
| › Chapter 16 - The Council at Jerusalem - Acts 15:1-5, 22-29
It is easy to start quarrels. There are some people who make trouble wherever they go. They seem always to be watching for somet ...read |
| › Chapter 17 - Paul Before King Agrippa - Acts 26:1-30
Saul the Pharisee, who consented to the death of Stephen (Acts 8:1), immediately gave himself to persecuting the Christians. Unless al ...read |
| › Chapter 18 - Paul's Voyage and Shipwreck - Acts 27
Paul had been eager to go to Rome. His eagerness was not that of a tourist or explorer--but that of one constrained by the love of Christ, ...read |
| › Chapter 19 - Justification by Faith - Romans 5:1-11
Justification by faith is the starting point in the Christian life. There can be no tree without a root; no stream without a fountain ...read |
| › Chapter 20 - The Life-Giving Spirit - Romans 8:1-14
Someone says that if the Bible is compared to a ring, and the Epistle to the Romans be it precious stone, the eighth chapter would be ...read |
| › Chapter 21 - Christian Living - Romans 12:9-21
Our love should be sincere, "without hypocrisy," as Paul says. A hypocrite is an actor. He pretends to be what he is not. We are not ...read |
| › Chapter 22 - The Law of Love - Romans 13:8-14
Christian teachings deal with life. To begin with, here is a word about debt-paying. "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the con ...read |
| › Chapter 23 - Abstaining for the Sake of Others - 1 Corinthians 8
"Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up--but love builds up." When Paul said ...read |
| › Chapter 24 - A Lesson in Self-Denial - 1 Corinthians 10:23-33
Drunkenness is a sore peril. We cannot at once remove the evil from the land--but we may put into the hearts and minds of yo ...read |
| › Chapter 25 - The Lord's Supper - 1 Corinthians 11:20-34
We ought to have true and right views of the Lord's Supper. It is a sacred ordinance. It leads us to think of the death of o ...read |
| › Chapter 26 - Paul on Christian Love - 1 Corinthians 13
Paul was speaking of the spiritual gifts, which were conferred upon Christians, and there flashed upon his mind a vision of someth ...read |
| › Chapter 27 - The Risen Christ - 1 Corinthians 15:3-28
"For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, th ...read |
| › Chapter 28 - Paul on the Grace of Giving - 2 Corinthians 8:1-15
Paul wanted to stimulate the Corinthian church to give generously, and he told them what other churches had been doing. Giving ...read |
| › Chapter 29 - The Flesh and the Spirit - Galatians 5:16-26
Paul states a great principle in spiritual ethics, when he says, "Walk by the Spirit--and you shall not fulfill the lust of the f ...read |
| › Chapter 30 - The Imitation of Christ - Ephesians 4:20-30
The Christian is to learn Christ. He is to go to school, where the pupils are Christ's followers. The textbook is Christ Himself. ...read |
| › Chapter 31 - A Call to Christlike Living - Ephesians 5:11-21
This chapter is a call to Christlike living. "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children" is its keynote. This mean ...read |
| › Chapter 32 - The Christian Armor - Ephesians 6:10-20
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power." A great many times in the Bible, we are urged to be strong. It is not m ...read |
| › Chapter 33 - Christ's Humility and Exaltation - Philippians 2:1-11
"Make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose." The people at Philippi had P ...read |
| › Chapter 34 - The New Life in Christ - Colossians 3:1-15
Paul said to The Colossians what to many must have seemed surprising: "If then you were raised together with Christ." How could t ...read |
| › Chapter 35 - Paul's Counsel to the Thessalonians - 1 Thessalonians 5:14-28
The Bible touches life at every point. While its great principles cover all moral acts in a general way, it descends to par ...read |
| › Chapter 36 - Paul's Charge to Timothy - 2 Timothy 3:14 to 4:5
This letter to Timothy, the last product of Paul's pen--was written from the prison at Rome. In his desire to encourage the y ...read |
| › Chapter 37 - Sober Living - Titus 2
Here we have special words of exhortation addressed to five different classes of people--aged men, aged women, young women, young men and s ...read |
| › Chapter 38 - The Priesthood of Christ - Hebrews 9
The Epistle to the Hebrews was written to those who felt that in giving up Judaism for Christianity, they had lost much that was dear to ...read |
| › Chapter 39 - Heroes of Faith - Hebrews 11
A great deal is said in the Bible about FAITH. We live by faith--when we believe in things we cannot see, and then act as if the things ...read |
| › Chapter 40 - Believing and Doing - James 2:14-16
James was a practical man. He wanted a religion of deeds. "What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no dee ...read |
| › Chapter 41 - The Power of the Tongue - James 3:1-12
The exhortation, "Not many of you should presume to be teachers" is a warning against the spirit which is always giving advice to peop ...read |
| › Chapter 42 - The Heavenly Inheritance - 1 Peter 1:1-12
"To God's elect, strangers in the world, scattered . . . who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father." It ...read |
| › Chapter 43 - Beneficial Warnings - 1 Peter 4:1-8
"Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is ...read |
| › Chapter 44 - Sin and Salvation - 1 John 1:5 to 2:6
"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you." Everyone has a message from God to announce to men. John had hea ...read |
| › Chapter 45 - God's Love in the Gift of His Son - 1 John 4:7-16
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does ...read |
| › Chapter 46 - Jesus Appears to John - Revelation 1:9-20
Jesus appears here to John in his banishment and reveals to him many things which John was to write and send to the churches. The ...read |
| › Chapter 47 - Heavenly Worship - Revelation 5
John describes his vision most vividly. "Then I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne--a scroll with writing on both side ...read |
| › Chapter 48 - The Saints in Heaven - Revelation 7:9-17
"After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and lan ...read |
| › Chapter 49 - The Heavenly Home - Revelation 22:1-10
In the early pages of the Bible, we have the story of paradise lost. In the closing chapters, we have paradise regained. Between ...read |
| › Chapter 50 - The Great Invitation - Revelation 22:11-21
"Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do ri ...read |
