Cloud of Witnesses Archives

Jesus is able! An Address for the New Year, by Marcus Rainsford, 1872

Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. Marcus Rainsford (1820-1897) is one of the many faithful believers who are now a part of the Great Cloud of Witnesses in Heaven (Heb 12:1). Their words...

Only One Life, Twill Soon Be Past – by C.T. Studd (1860 – 1931)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. Charles Thomas Studd, better known as C. T. Studd, was a British missionary. He was born on December 2, 1860, in Spratton, United Kingdom, into a family...

For Days of Auld Lang Syne

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “Auld Lang Syne” is a song of Scottish origin. “Syne” is pronounced with a “z” (zyne) and the word “auld”...

The god of popular Christianity! Milburn Cockrell (1941-2002)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the...

How Do We Offer Ourselves a Living Sacrifice? By J.R. Miller (1908)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. The godly life is not one of ease, pleasure, and self-indulgence. We are taught to present our bodies, as a living sacrifice unto God. “I urge you,...

From Peter to Cephas–The process was not easy! by J.R. Miller (1840-1912)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “Jesus looked at him and said: You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas (which means ‘Rock’).” John 1:42 Then and...

Who is the Richest Man in the World? by Thomas Brooks, 1662

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “Having nothing–and yet possessing all things.” 2 Corinthians 6:10 This is a riddle the world cannot understand. A holy man cannot be a...

Said the Robin to the Sparrow, by Elizabeth Cheney (1859)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. Overheard in an Orchard, by Elizabeth Cheney (1859) Said the Robin to the Sparrow,“I should really like to knowWhy these anxious human beingsRush about...

Alone and Wrestling with God, by Lettie B. Cowman (1870–1960)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day (Genesis 32:24). In this passage, God is wrestling with Jacob...

What is is the Greatest Possible National Blessing? J.C. Ryle, 1902

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. The good that was done by the Bible will probably never be known until the last day. But I shall never hesitate to assert that if there is any fact more...

My Home is God Himself. Christ brought me there. (Author Unknown)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. Enter Text Words of Wisdom from the Cloud of Witnesses: The Cloud of Witnesses is a reference to those in Heaven who have run their races and are now...

Little Slips, by J.R. Miller (1840-1912)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “Whoever is faithful in very little–is also faithful in much; and whoever is unrighteous in very little–is also unrighteous in...

A Lamp for My Feet and a Light on My Path, by J.R. Miller (1840-1912)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “Your Word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.” Psalm 119:105 God’s Word is represented as a lamp for the feet. It is a...

Satan Is Often Most Busy With Us, When… by William Plumer (1869)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “The god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the...

The Soul’s Portion, by John MacDuff (1818-1895)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “This is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose” Isaiah 28:12 “You are my portion, O...

The Battle Is Not Yours, by A. B. Simpson (1843-1919)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. Count the battle as God’s. “The battle is not yours, but God’s (2 Chr 20:15).” Ye shall not need to fight in this battle. As long...

Understanding the Everlasting Arms of God, by J.R. Miller (1840–1912)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms!” Deuteronomy 33:27 The picture suggested is that of a little child...

The Essence of Unhappiness, by James Smith, 1865

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. Sin is the seed, source, and essence of unhappiness. “There is no peace to the wicked,” nor is there any happiness for the sinner in his sins....

As Sorrowful, Yet Always Rejoicing, by Lettie Cowman (Steams in the Desert)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing (2 Corinthians 6:10). Sorrow was beautiful, but her beauty was the beauty of the moonlight shining through the leafy...

I Have Been Through the Valley of Weeping (Baca) Psalm 84, by L.B. Cowman (1860-1970)

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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. A donation of any amount is greatly needed and appreciated. Psa 84:5-7 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the...