"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"No matter how excellent the constitution and laws of a country may be, or how vast its resources and prosperity, there is no sure basis for social order, or public as well as private virtue, until it be laid in the wise regulation of its families.   After all, a nation is but the aggregate of its families, and unless there be good husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, there cannot possibly be good citizens.   Therefore the present decay of home life and family discipline threaten the stability of our nation today far more severely than does any foreign hostility." -Arthur Pink , Exposition of Hebrews , p.1125

"For the love of money is the root of all evil ; which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." -I Timothy 6:10 [KJV] How hard to persuade a man, that there is any evil in that which he loves! Evil in money! what evil can there be in that which will purchase all things? Truly, we may say of money as one said of a pack of cards. Being asked, What harm there is in them? replied, None at all: they are very innocent things, if you will not meddle with them. So is money.  But there is a curse in the love of it. There is the root of all evil. What mighty ills have not been done by this? Why, the love of money will dethrone God in the heart, and make a man an idolater. “Covetousness is idolatry” (Colossians 3:5.) Can there in all the world be a greater evil than this? Is not this the root of all evil? Do not all evils spring from hence?  Love of money was the same in the apostle’s days as it is now....

"And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden-censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which was before the throne."   -Revelation 8:3 [KJV] My soul, behold this mighty Angel, even thy Jesus, in His priestly office. Look at Him with an earnest eye of faith before thou goest this morning to the mercy-seat. See His golden censer, with His much incense, and contemplate both the fulness of merit in His own glorious Person, and the fulness of efficacy in His work and righteousness for the sure acceptance of all His redeemed.  Go near, my soul, having boldness to enter now into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Hear thy great High Priest bidding thee to take shelter under His golden censer, and behold Him presenting thy person and thy poor offerings upon the golden altar, even His divine nature, before the throne. Yes, Lord! I would draw nigh in Thee, and by The...

"They go from strength to strength." -Psalm 84:7 [KJV] "They go from strength to strength." It is in the margin, "from company to company." I rather think, that the meaning implied is, "they go from halting place to halting place." There were certain fixed spots where the whole company rested at night; as we read, when the infant Jesus tarried at Jerusalem, His parents knew it not: they supposed that He was "in the company;" that is, had gone on with the travelling pilgrims; but when night came, and they looked for Him, He was not there.  These halting places were certain spots where the caravan of the travelling pilgrims rested at night; by these successive haltings their strength was recruited, and they were enabled to bear the long journey, rising in the morning refreshed with their night's rest. The Psalmist viewing it spiritually says, "They go from strength to strength." At each halting place they ...