Author: Burrows
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“But Miss Mills was praying, and the Word of God was working…”
God picked out a couple of schoolteachers, Miss Mills and Miss Thomas, to have a large part in my coming to Christ. Miss Mills was a general science teacher, and I was one of her problem pupils. She wrote my name on her prayer list and prayed for me every day for six solid years.…
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How to Know Who Your Master Is
Many men turn aside from religion when their interest would be compromised. If I see two men walking together I cannot tell who is the master of the dog that is behind, but I shall discover directly. One of them will turn to the right and the other to the left—now I shall know who…
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No One Can Serve Two Lords
No one, my son, can serve two lords,For one he will be forced to hateSo that he might the other love.No devotion shown to two aboveFor with one enthroned, one must vacate.So serve he who gives or he who hoards.
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Exercised to the Fullest Extent
We are always liable to distort emphases. Out of deference to all the stress that falls upon God’s agency in sanctification we must not fall into the error of quietism and fail to take account of the activity of the believer himself. The imperatives directed to the believer imply nothing less. Perhaps the most instructive…
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Prayer Contra Gentiles
Now when you are praying, do not babble like the Gentiles, for they think that in their many words they will be accepted. Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Matthew 6:7–8 The Pharisees pray to be seen by men. The Gentiles pray to be…
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“He Insists on Being a Christian All the Time”
God has always had His specialists whose chief concern has been the moral breakdown, the decline in the spiritual health of the nation or the church. Such men were Elijah, Jeremiah, Malachi and others of their kind who appeared at critical moments in history to reprove, rebuke, and exhort in the name of God and…