Cloud of Witnesses Archives

Look at the Manger! by Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. “You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich–yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich!” 2 Corinthians 8:9 Go to Bethlehem and...

24 Reasons Why I Love America, by John Wayne (1907-1979)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Watch as John Wayne presents 24 reasons why we should love our country. Always remember God’s grace to our country and the true reason for our HOPE — Jesus! About John Wayne: John Wayne (May 26, 1907 –...

What is the Answer to the Chaos and Confusion in Our World?

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Our ministry did not write this article, and it was not written recently. But the message is profound and more applicable today than ever before.First, read the article. Then, we’ll tell you who wrote it and...

What Did President Reagan Say About Racism, Marxism, and God?

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. What did President Reagan say about racism and Marxism? And what vow did he confidently make on behalf of our nation? How do his words speak to our nation today? And are we keeping the vow he made? Watch now!...

President Reagan’s Letter Proclaiming the Gospel

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. President Reagan wrote a letter of utmost importance on August 7, 1982. It wasn’t a letter to anyone in Congress or to a leader of another country. Nor was it a letter of political significance. It was a...

God, the Refuge of His People! by William Nicholson, 1862

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. God, the Refuge of His People! by William Nicholson, 1862 We can learn so much from the Great Cloud of Witnesses who have gone before us. May they always be remembered and revered for their faithfulness and their...

Troubles, troubles, troubles! by Henry Smith (ca. 1560 – 1591?)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. ”Man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.” Job 5:7 “Many are the afflictions of the righteous!” Psalm 34:19 “Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows!”...

You have not traveled this way before! by Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. “You have not traveled this way before!” Joshua 3:4 How solemn is the reflection that each traveler to Zion is commencing a new and untrodden path! New events in his history will transpire: new scenes...

God bought you with a very high price! by Charles Spurgeon

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Let us never forget the high cost of our salvation. There was a price to be paid for the sins of mankind, and God the Father sent God the Son to rescue and redeem us by giving His all. Never forget what He did...

Nevertheless I am continually with You! by Thomas Moor (1882)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. “Nevertheless I am continually with You! You hold me by my right hand.” Psalm 73:23 This is the utterance of a faith which triumphs over contradictory circumstances and contradictory...

Heavenly Light of Truth in Doctrines of Scripture by John Angell James (1785-1859)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The doctrines of Scripture are facts that involve corresponding emotions and principles of action. They must, from their very nature, if believed, be operative upon the heart and the life. If the doctrines of...

Perplexity, by James Smith (1865)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts; neither are your ways, My ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts!” Isaiah 55:8-9...

Your Mother, by J.R. Miller, 1898

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Your mother is the first friend you ever had. When you came into this great world as an utter stranger, not knowing anyone, never having looked into any face — you found her love waiting for you. Instantly, you had...

The God of Grace (Inexhaustible Treasures), by Octavius Winslow

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. “And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19 Bring Your perplexities to God, He will guide them. needs to God, He will supply them. mountains...

What is the Word of the Blessed Spirit, by John MacDuff (1818-1895)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. It is the work of the blessed Spirit to take of the things of Christ and show them to the soul, to reveal to us the precious benefits of redemption and the riches of Divine grace, and to present them to us in such...

What is the Idol of Our Day? by John Angell James (1852)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. One of the evils of our age is an excessive love of pleasure, which leads to self-indulgence, and rids the mind of sober thought and true piety. Love of Pleasure is the Idol of Our Day This is one of the growing...

The Chosen Pleasure Ground of Our Souls, by Henry Law, 1797-1884

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. O God of patience and consolation, glory be to You for this throne of grace.Make it ever to us- the chosen pleasure ground of our souls.May it be the fortress to which continually we flee.Here, may we obtain mercy...

Believing God, by Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. PREPOSITIONS CAN BE VERY ELEGANT. A man is “in” architecture, or a woman is “in” teaching, we say, meaning that is what they do on weekdays and how they make enough money to enjoy themselves...

The Three Kings, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. We know that it would have been at least 40 days after the birth of Jesus that the wise men arrived. And we know that they were not kings. Rather, they were wise men. For more information, click here or read some...

“God Moves in a Mysterious Way,” by William Cowper, 1731-1800

by Reasons for Hope* Jesus

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. William Cowper contributed songs to a hymnal complied by John Newton in 1779. Read his poetic words that became the songs “God Moves in a Mysterious Way” and “O! for a closer walk with God.” Then WATCH...