| › Chapter 1 - Life's Byways and Waysides - Life's Byways and Waysides
by
J. R. Miller
1907
PREFACE
These chapters are at the best only fragments of teaching. They have no close conne ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - Unto His Nest Again - One day President Lincoln and a friend were walking together in a field, when they found a little bird fluttering in the grass. It had fallen out of i ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - The Silent Christ - A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-pos ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - Tempted like as We Are - "For we do not have a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet with ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - The Greatest Love - "May you have the power to understand, as all God's people should--how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love really is. May you experience ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - Spices for Christ's Grave - "When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body." Mark 16: ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - The Everlasting Arms - "The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms!" Deuteronomy 33:27
"For everything that was written in the past was writte ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved - "One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to Him." John 13:23
One of the most tender pictures in the gospel, is that which sh ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - Great in God's Sight - Few men have had higher honor, than that which was conferred upon John the Baptist in Christ's estimate of him. "Among those who are born of woman--th ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - Possibilities of Friendship - The subject of friendship never wears out. Human hearts are the same in all ages. We all need love. There is a story of a captive in the Bastile, long ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - Praying for Our Friends - It is good to pray for one's friends. Indeed, the friendship that does not pray--is lacking in one of its most sacred elements. We have also a good in ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - The Transforming Power of Prayer - It is a very interesting fact, that it was as Jesus was praying, that He was transfigured. When He first knelt on the cold mountain, there was no brig ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - Serving Our Generation - "David served his own generation by the will of God." Acts 13:36
It gives dignity and also sacredness to our life--to think as serving our generati ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - The Ministry of Suffering - One of the most remarkable visions of the book of Revelation, shows us a throng arrayed in white robes--heaven's most honored ones. When the question ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - Refuge from Strife of Tongues - "Life and death are in the power of the tongue!" Proverbs 18:21
"The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts ...read |
| › Chapter 16 - Faithfulness - "Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your Master' ...read |
| › Chapter 17 - The Law of Use and Disuse - "He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gaine ...read |
| › Chapter 18 - Prayer for Divine Searching - "Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlast ...read |
| › Chapter 19 - Remembering Christ's Words - Memory is a wonderful faculty. It is a hand that writes down on an invisible scroll--a record of all the things we do, all the thoughts that pass thro ...read |
| › Chapter 20 - The Manliness of Jesus - The question has been raised, whether Christianity is not a religion for women, rather than for men. It has been claimed by some that the virtues it i ...read |
| › Chapter 21 - The Living Christ - It always does us good, to focus on the gospel of a risen, living Christ. We need it in our life of care and struggle. It is an old truth--but it is o ...read |
| › Chapter 22 - Friendships in Heaven - "The family of God!" 1 Peter 4:17
There is a story of a ship whose crew were rendered unfit for their duties, by coming in sight of their home-land ...read |
| › Chapter 23 - The Duty of Forgetting - It is a great thing to learn to live in the future. Paul put the lesson in very plain words when he said, "Forgetting those things which are behind, a ...read |
| › Chapter 24 - Night, and Jesus Absent - A whole picture lies in a sentence, or part of a sentence. Thus John describes a scene on the Sea of Galilee, "It was now dark--and Jesus had not yet ...read |
| › Chapter 25 - Numbering Our Days - What is it to number our days? One way is to keep careful record of them. That is a mathematical numbering. We say we are so many years old. We note o ...read |
