HEART-RENDING is divinely wrought and solemnly felt. It is a secret grief which is personally experienced, not in mere form, but as a deep, soul-moving work of the Holy Spirit upon the inmost heart of each believer. It is not a matter to be merely talked of and believed in, but keenly and sensitively felt…
THE education of our faith is incomplete if we have not learned that there is a providence of loss, a ministry of failing and of fading things, a gift of emptiness. The material insecurities of life make for its spiritual establishment. The dwindling stream by which Elijah sat and mused is a true picture of…
…adversity will finally turn out to be the advantage of the right if we are only willing to keep on working and to wait patiently. How steadfastly the great victor souls have kept at their work, dauntless and unafraid! There are blessings which we cannot obtain if we cannot accept and endure suffering. There are…
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
An article in Homiletics Magazine discusses the benefits of fighting the malodorous maladies of bad breath and stinky feet (both caused by bacteria) with…well…bacteria. The article sites recent research which suggests that bacteria eating bacteria can actually be enlisted to consume their smelly relatives. The Homiletics editors likened it to the words of the famous…
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” David Brainerd
“And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.” (Mt 13.22) Over the years, I have had the opportunity to disciple many people. In their young Christian…
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