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Breakaway league LIV Golf files for bankruptcy protection | World News | Sky News

Breakaway league LIV Golf files for bankruptcy protection | World News | Sky News

Fourteen go on trial over deadliest Channel small boats disaster - BBC News

Fourteen go on trial over deadliest Channel small boats disaster - BBC News

UK summons Serbian diplomat over country's role in 'Butcher of Bosnia' funeral | World News | Sky News

UK summons Serbian diplomat over country's role in 'Butcher of Bosnia' funeral | World News | Sky News

German police arrest suspect over sabotage attacks on power grid - BBC News

German police arrest suspect over sabotage attacks on power grid - BBC News

British widow faces deportation from Sweden after 22 years - BBC News

British widow faces deportation from Sweden after 22 years - BBC News

Supermarket manager in Mexico rescues toddler from oncoming traffic | Fox News

Supermarket manager in Mexico rescues toddler from oncoming traffic | Fox News

Daily Encounter: Cultivating patience for Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Daily Encounter: Cultivating patience for Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: September 8th

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: September 8th Morning “His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” Matthew 17:1-9 Our blessed Lord for the most part led a life of humiliation; but occasionally, lest men should altogether forget his divine nature, he drew aside the curtain, and revealed a measure of his majesty. This he did in a special manner upon the holy mount. Matthew 17:1 A quaint writer says our Lord took Peter because he loved Christ most, John because Christ loved him most, and James because, next to these, he loved and was loved most. The Lord knew the men whom he had chosen, and judged these three to be the fittest eye-witnesses of his glory. Matthew 17:2 As a foretaste of the glory in which he will shine hereafter, he put on the robes of his excellency for a moment, and dazzled his disciples eyes. How great was the condescension which kept him closely veiled while here below. Brighter than the sun is he, and yet he deigned to...

Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for September 8

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for September 8 “Broken and Smoking ”  - Isaiah 42:3 Then I may reckon upon tender treatment from my LORD. Indeed, I feel myself to be at best as weak, as pliant, as worthless as a reed. Someone said, "I don’t care a rush for you"; and the speech, though unkind, was not untrue. Alas! I am worse than a reed when it grows by the river, for that at least can hold up its head. I am bruised -- sorely, sadly bruised. There is no music in me now; there is a rift which lets out all the melody. Ah, me! Yet Jesus will not break me; and if He will not, then I mind little what others try to do. O sweet and compassionate LORD, I nestle down beneath Thy protection and forget my bruises!  Truly I am also fit to be likened to "the smoking flax," whose light is gone, and only its smoke remains. I fear I am rather a nuisance than a benefit. My fears tell me that the devil has blown out my light and left me an obnoxi...