RSS FeedSOLID TEACHING OR SPIRITUAL JUNK FOOD?
I have just finished reading Iain Murray’s biography of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981). Lloyd-Jones was a Welsh physician who was called to pastor Westminster Chapel, the cathedral of the English Congregational Church. He was raised in the Welsh Calvinistic...
STOP DOUBTING AND BELIEVE
Joseph Epstein, in his biography of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), the famous author of Democracy in America, recounts how Tocqueville, at the age of sixteen underwent an intellectual, even more, a spiritual crisis. Doubt had seeped into his soul through his...
MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY
When I was eleven years old my grandmother died suddenly at the age of fifty nine. Her death was shock to me. I could not understand how a person so vibrant and alive one moment could be gone the next. I can remember seeing her laid out in her coffin in her bedroom...
READING THAT HAS INSPIRED ME
While recovering from knee replacement surgery I have passed the time reading a wide variety of books. Over the years I have collected eighteen volumes of Prince Valiant by Hal Foster published by Fantagraphic Books. The Prince Valiant comics ran from 1937 and I hope...
MORE HOLY WEEK HYMNS TO INSPIRE
How marvelous, how wonderful! And my song shall ever be: How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior’s love for me. I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how he could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean. For me it was in the garden he...
HOLY WEEK HYMNS TO INSPIRE
Desiring to gain the great spiritual truths of Holy Week I turned to the section in my Worship and Rejoice hymnal for inspiration. While we do not sing these hymns often they contain a goldmine of prayerful resources. Here are some of them. Go to dark Gethsemane, you...
WHAT JESUS DOES FOR US IN HIS SUPPER
It is significant what someone does to prepare for their death. Some do nothing and deny the inevitable. That makes it hard for their family. Others of us put our affairs in order and make it easier for our survivors. Jesus prepared a last supper with his disciples...
THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE CROSS
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (1 Cor 1:18) What is the message of the cross? Why is it foolishness to those who are perishing? Why is it the power of God to those who are...
THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER
Finally, brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you. And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not everyone has faith. But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and...
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is going to happen in my life so that I can adequately prepare for it. Whenever something unexpected happens I get undone by it. When somebody springs something unexpected on me, presents me with an issue or agenda item that...
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