Author: Bill Nicholson
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February 11, 2025 — Too Little, Too Late
“If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.” —D.L. Moody Manasseh made a clean sweep of the land. “He took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house […]
February 11
CHRIST UNSEEN: “…Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory” (1 Pet 1:7-8). J. Sidlow Baxter, in his devotional, Going Deeper, quotes the words of F.B. Meyer: “The great painters of Christendom covered the walls of picture […]
February 11 Petition Mission
“Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law” (Ps 119:18). The current term to “be woke” or “stay woke” refers to a need for awareness about conditions around, especially injustice. But the idea is an old one. We need to be sensitive about holy living: “Awake to righteousness, and do not […]
February 11
Faith is often needed not only for spiritual efforts but for financial provision as well. In dark days, when funds were low for the China Inland Mission, Hudson Taylor received a letter from George Müller: “My chief object is to tell you that I love you in the Lord; that I feel deeply interested about […]
Be Not Afraid
A sermon inspired by a child’s drawing…and a lesson to inspire you in the midst of fear. […]
February 10, 2025 — God Saved Manasseh!
The God who changes grit into pearls and coal into diamonds can change sinners into saints. It makes one nauseous to read what Manasseh had done. Idols in the temple. Witches in the palace. Babies in the fire. If you were God, wouldn’t you conclude that Manasseh, like his name, should be someone you would […]
February 10
“The Lord Jesus CHRIST, our HOPE” (1 Tim 1:1). Charles Spurgeon tells of visiting with the Earl of Shaftsbury who had taken his dying daughter to Menton on the French Riviera in hopes of her regaining some strength. Spurgeon writes: “That day he was particularly cast down about the general state of society. He thought […]
February 10 Petition Mission
“And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites…” (Mt 6:5). How often there is a serious gap in our prayers and platitudes between what we profess and what we possess. Prolific English author Thomas Fuller warned people like me: “How easy is pen-and-paper piety! I will not say it costs nothing, but […]