It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.
Ezekiel Hopkins (You can learn more about Ezekiel Hopkins by clicking on the name to the left.)
Quotes #33…Ezekiel Hopkins 1633-1690
January 22, 2026
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Quotes #32…Isaac Ambrose (1604-1663)
January 19, 2026Oh! how should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Christians! turn your eyes upon the Lord: ‘Look, and look again unto Jesus.’ Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the gospel? Can the world die for you? Can the world reconcile you to the Father? Can the world advance you to the kingdom of heaven? As Christ is all in all, so let him be the full and complete subject of our desire, and hope, and faith, and love, and joy; let him be in your thoughts the first in the morning, and the last at night.
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Quotes #31…Preacher Purl 1951
January 16, 2026“And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen.”
From the movie Hoosiers (1986)
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2025
December 24, 2025
My wife has now been doing these Christmas song/updates for 30 years. I have not always published them due to personal privacy of certain family members. I have the okay to print this one, as it is pretty generic and will be the last. Click on image and enlarge for better viewing.
While I have this up, I would like to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas Day whether they observe the day or not. Looking ahead to 2026, my hope is that all of us grow in the Lord and in the knowledge of His Word.
Chris Reimers
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The Person of Jesus Christ
December 4, 2025Recently, Bruce Cooper posted the following article. I found it provided clarity in a world that speaks so much of Jesus but seems to hardly know the Jesus described in the Bible. To know who Jesus is, one must turn to the Bible. It is where we get our knowledge. Here Bruce takes the words of scripture and provides a good glimpse into who our Savior is. The best way to build on this knowledge is to read and study the Bible for yourself.
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Quotes #22 …John Flavel 1627-1691
November 24, 2025There is not such a pleasant history for you to read in all the world as the history of your own lives, if you would sit down and record from the beginning hitherto what God has been to you, and done for you; what evidences and outbreakings of his mercy, faithfulness, and love there have been in all the conditions you have passed through.
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Quotes #19…Joseph Caryl 1602-1673
November 10, 2025So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it and there you shall see a light, like the light of the Sun.
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Quotes #18…Timothy Cruso 1657-1697
November 6, 2025“My flesh shall rest in hope.” (Psalm 16:9) That hope which is grounded on the word, gives rest to the soul; ’tis an anchor to keep it steady. Hebrews 6:13. Which shows the unmoveableness of that which our anchor is fastened to. The promise sustains our faith, and our faith is that which supports us. He that hopes in the Word as David did (Psalms 119:81), lays a mighty stress upon it; as Samson did when he leaned upon the pillars of the house, so as to pull it down upon the Philistines. A believer throws the whole weight of all of his affairs and concernments, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, upon the promises of God, like a man resolved to stand or fall with them. He ventures himself, and all that belongs to him, entirely upon this bottom, which is in effect to say, if they will not bear me up, I am content to sink: I know that there shall be a performance of those things which have been told me from the Lord, and therefore I will incessantly look for it.
Found in The Treasury of David, an original Exposition of the Psalms by C.H.S.
Cruso had as a fellow-student Daniel Defoe, who immortalized his name in Robinson Crusoe.
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Quotes #16…Jeff Allen (Born 1956)
October 30, 2025
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Wings of the Wind 
Quotes #34…John Howe 1630-1705
February 2, 2026It is most highly delightful to receive him, and give up ourselves to him as our full suitable good, so exactly answering all the exigencies of our distressed case ; when sensibly apprehending the true state of it, the soul cries out, ” None but Christ”, and finds him present, waiting only for consent, readily offering himself,” Here I am, take me, thy Jesus, thy help, thy life” How overcomingly pleasant is this to a soul that feels its distress, and perceives itself ready to perish ; yea and that daily sees itself perishing, were it not for him.
John Howe quote taken from “Of Delighting in God,” Chapter II
The word exigencies means an urgent need or demand.
(Click on John’s name above to learn a bit about him. There are advertisements at the link that benefit me in no way. – CR)
The whole works of the Rev. John Howe Volume II pdf (550 pages)
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