S.D. Gordon

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21.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 1 - The Lone Man Who Went Before - part 2
      A Father-pleasing Life. The second trait in His upward relation was this--He chose to live a Father-pleasing life. I use those words because He used them.[10] I might say "consecrated" or "dedicated" or "surrendered" or other like words. And these are good words, but in common use we have largely lost their meaning. They are used unthinkingly fo ...read more

22.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 2 - The Long, Rough Road He Trod
      The Book's Story. It wasn't always a rough road, of course. But as you look at it from end to end, the roughness of it is what takes your eye most, and takes great hold of your heart. The smooth places here and there make you feel that it was a rough road. And yet, rough though it really was, the roughness was eased by the love in the heart of t ...read more

23.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 3 - The Pleading Call To Follow
      Hungry for the Human Touch. God hungers for the human touch. There's an inner hesitancy in saying this, and in hearing it. We feel it can hardly be so, even though our inner hearts would wish it were so. We know that we men hunger for the human touch, the strongest of us. And in our hour of sore need we know that our inner hearts look up, and ...read more

24.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 4 - A Look Ahead
      Saltless Salt. The Lord Jesus never tried to make things look easier than they are. He wanted you to see the road just as it is, and asked you to look at it carefully. He knew this was the only right way to do. He knew that so the sinews would be grown in character that would stand the tests coming, and only so. It was never His plan to incre ...read more

25.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 5 - The Main Road--Experiences of Power And Privilege
      The Bethlehem Birth. There were four of these experiences in our Lord's life. At the very beginning came the Bethlehem Birth. That meant for Him a birth out of the usual course of nature, yet working within nature's usual processes. It was something more-than-the-natural coming down into the natural. The power of the Holy Spirit came upon the pu ...read more

26.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 6 - The Valleys--experiences of Suffering And Sacrifice - part 1
      The Never-absent Minor. Here the road begins to drop down into the valleys. It runs sharply down, and on, through some wild gulches and ravines thick with lurking danger, with the upper-lights almost lost in the deep black darkness. It is darkness that can be felt more than the Egyptian darkness ever was. It proves to be the valley of the shadow ...read more

27.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 6 - The Valleys--experiences of Suffering And Sacrifice - part 2
      The Underground Road. And hard following this came the Burial in Joseph's Tomb. "Christ died for our sins and ... He was buried."[78] "Joseph took the body, ... and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb."[79] "The chief priests and the Pharisees ... went, and made the ...read more

28.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 7 - The Hilltops--Experiences of Gladness and Glory
      Valley Music. There was a third group of experiences in our Lord Jesus' life. But it will be good for us to remember that the third comes after the second. There can be no third until there has been a second. It is impossible to take first and third and omit the second. The third can come only after the second. There can be experiences of gladne ...read more

29.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 8 - Shall We Go?
      The Deeper Meaning of Friendship. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Our Lord Jesus was our friend in our need. It was a desperate need. It could not be worse. We had been badly hurt by sin. The hurt was so bad that we could do nothing without help. Our Lord Jesus came to our help. It was not easy for Him to be our friend. Friendship is som ...read more

30.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 9 - Finger-Posts
      The Parable of the Finger-Posts. Waiting is harder work than working. It takes more out of you. And it puts more into you, too, of fine-grained, steady strength, if you can stand the strain of it. And if, to the waiting is added perplexity, the pull upon your strength is much greater. It is harder to hold steady, and not break. And if the thing ...read more

31.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 10 - Fellow-Followers
      God's Problem. God needs men. That is the tremendous fact that stands out in every generation. There never has been a corner since Adam walked out of Eden where that need was not thrust into some man's face, and thrust into God's face. It is being thrust into our faces to-day as ever before, and as never before. For the ends of the earth are com ...read more

32.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 11 - The Glory Of The Goal,--Face to Face
      "With You Always.". Have you ever seen Christ? No, I don't mean have you been to some uplifting convention, and been tremendously caught by some talented, earnest speaker, and been swayed by the atmosphere of the hour and place, and felt that all was not just as it should be with you; and then you prayed more, and made some new resolves, or re-m ...read more

33.) Quiet Talks on Following the Christ 12 - Footnotes
      [1] John i. 1, 2, 14, 18; Colossians i. 15; II Corinthians iv. 4; Philippians ii. 6; Hebrews i. 3. [2] John xv. 15; Psalm xxv. 14; Isaiah xli. 8; II Chronicles xx. 7; James ii. 23. [3] Matthew iv. 4; where the emphatic word is "man," standing in contrast with "Son of God" in verse 3. [4] Acts xvii. 28; Job xii. 10; Daniel v. 23 l.c.; Psalm cxxxi ...read more

34.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel - Preface
      Quiet Talks on John's Gospel By S. D. Gordon Author of "Quiet Talks on Power," and "Quiet Talks on Prayer" 1915 Contents Preface 1. John's Story 2. The Wooing Lover 3. The Lover Wooing 4. Closer Wooing 5. The Greatest Wooing 6. An Appointed Tryst Unexpectedly Kept 7. Another Try ...read more

35.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 1 - John's Story
      "I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes, I sped; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasmÈd fears, From those strong Feet that followed, ...read more

36.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 2 - The Wooing Lover - part 1
      Who it Was that Came "But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat--and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet-- 'All things betray thee, who betrayest Me'" --"The Hound of Heaven." "Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to ...read more

37.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 2 - The Wooing Lover - part 2
      The Forgotten Preacher. With a simplicity in sticking to his main point, John goes quietly on: "that he might be a witness of the light." That's rather interesting. It was of the light he was to bear witness; not of himself. It was not the technical accuracy of his work, not its scholarliness and skill that absorbed him, but that the crowd got t ...read more

38.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 2 - The Wooing Lover - part 3
      The Oldest Family. "But," John goes on. That was a steadying "but." It was hard on John to recall how they treated his Friend and Master. But there is a "but." There's another aide, an offset to what he's been saying, a bright bit to offset the black bit. But as many as did receive Him. Some received. Jesus was rejected, yes, abominably, contemp ...read more

39.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 3 - The Lover Wooing - part 1
      "Still with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy Came the following Feet, And a Voice above their beat-- Naught shelters thee, who will not shelter Me.'" --"The Hound of Heaven." "O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldst thou be as a sojourner in the land, and ...read more