C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Thursday June 5, 2025

"He that loveth not knoweth not God."-1 John 4:8
    
    The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the apostle, "Christ loved me and gave Himself for me." Then love gives the countersign, and stamps upon the heart gratitude and love to Jesus in return. "We love Him because He first loved us." In those grand old ages, which are the heroic period of the Christian religion, this double mark was clearly to be seen in all believers in Jesus; they were men who knew the love of Christ, and rested upon it as a man leaneth upon a staff whose trustiness he has tried. The love which they felt towards the Lord was not a quiet emotion which they hid within themselves in the secret chamber of their souls, and which they only spake of in their private assemblies when they met on the first day of the week, and sang hymns in honour of Christ Jesus the crucified, but it was a passion with them of such a vehement and all-consuming energy, that it was visible in all their actions, spoke in their common talk, and looked out of their eyes even in their commonest glances. Love to Jesus was a flame which fed upon the core and heart of their being; and, therefore, from its own force burned its way into the outer man, and shone there. Zeal for the glory of King Jesus was the seal and mark of all genuine Christians. Because of their dependence upon Christ's love they dared much, and because of their love to Christ they did much, and it is the same now. The children of God are ruled in their inmost powers by love-the love of Christ constraineth them; they rejoice that divine love is set upon them, they feel it shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them, and then by force of gratitude they love the Saviour with a pure heart, fervently. My reader, do you love Him? Ere you sleep give an honest answer to a weighty question!
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country by Dawn Menge


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The Queen is coming!  The Queen is coming!  Queen Vernita visits Gator Country and boy is it a grand visit.  In her book, Dawn Menge, takes the reader on a year long visit to different places in the Deep South better know as "Gator Country".  In Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country, the reader will learn about the plantation, bayou and even some jazz tradition.  It's an exciting adventure and my the learning experience:  rich culture, music, food and history all rolled into one book.   Each month Queen Vernita spends with a different friend learning all she can about gators, plants and even African European music is thrown into the mix.  Readers will learn new and fascinating facts all along the way.  So if you have a reader that loves learning and is curious about people, animals, and nature all around this would be an exciting book to read.

Visit Outskirts Press Publishing for more information concerning this book.

About the book:
Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country by Dawn Menge
ISBN: 978-1-4787-2245-8
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Date of publish: April 2014
Pages: 31
About the Author:
Dawn Menge is the author of the Queen Vernita educational series. Her series has won 19 literary awards. Queen Vernita’s adventures include: Queen Vernita’s Visitors, Queen Vernita Visits the Blue Ice Mountains, Queen Vernita Meets Sir HeathyBean, and Queen Vernita Explores the Oceaneer’s Coastline.

A copy of this book was provided by Bostick Communications in exchange for my honest review.

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