Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 26 – Righteousness – A Direction
For that is the only real question – not just where are you – but, which way are you facing and living?
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Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 25 – Righteousness – A Direction
…the consequence is that they are often facing towards sin all the time, and there being no such actual line, they find themselves in sin, unmistakably, almost before they know it.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 24 – Righteousness – A Direction
That is the real question about life: which way are you facing; in which direction are you really looking and living? Righteousness, not a position, but a direction…..
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 23 – Mutual Restoration
It is just when a man goes wrong that he most wants his brethren’s support.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 22 – Sinners and Judgment
…..on the people that stand by is impressed the awful truth, that sinners are not fit to judge of sin.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 21 – Brethren
Thou call’st us Brethren: sweet repose
Is in that word – the Lord who dwells on high
Knows all, yet loves us better than He knows.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 20 – Sin- A Disease
All the sin of men I esteem as their disease, not their nature; as a folly which may be prevented, not a necessity which must be accepted.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 19 – Sin
Sin is not a real thing. It is rather the absence of a something, the will to do right.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 18 – The Poison of Sin
One false note will spoil the finest piece of music, and one little sin, as we deem it, may ruin the most promising character, involving it in a network of unforeseen consequences out of which there may be no escape.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 17 – Confession of Sin
I couldn’t live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.
