( A Golden Treasury for the Children of God by C.H.V. Bogatzky is a daily devotional ~ translated from German to English, published by the American Tract Society in 1746. This new edition has been retyped in the same format here for downloading to your computer...
Alleluia! Revelation 10:1 Thou didst begin the year, O my soul, with a Hosanna, imploring the Lord’s blessing; canst thou now conclude it with an Alleluia? Surely thou canst celebrate the praise of a gracious and loving God. Take a review of the year past; hast...
This original picture was taken in Bavaria, Germany. We have never been there. I duplicated this with my camera from the cover of a Big Ben 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle box. After separating some pieces of the puzzle, I thought of the many reflections of nature. Then I...
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. 2 Corinthians 3:3. The image is beautiful and instructing;...
We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:10 And are there scoffers, who madly walk after their own lusts, and question the coming of the Lord? The hour hastens when infidelity shall doubt no more: “The Lord himself shall descend from...
I'm old, and this body is worn. My flesh and my heart have been torn. Time takes its toll, And makes me old; But, praise God, in Christ I'm new-born. His Spirit transcends all the age, He has written on every page~ "My Love divine Has made you...
We, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Romans 12:5 O the blessed communion of saints; one member has the benefit of all the other members’ gifts, prayers, and ministrations. One prays for all, and all pray for one. What one...
By the grace of God I am what I am. 1 Corinthians 15:10. Born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God. As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. 1 Peter 1:23; 2:2. What made the wonderful...
Pour out your heart before God. Psalm 62:8. I have poured out my soul before the Lord. 1 Samuel 1:13. What a different view do these lively texts give of praying, when opposed to the usual expression of saying our prayers—saying what our books and our parents teach...