"COME TO ME...AND LEARN OF ME." Matthew 11:28 How often do people ask, "What are you reading?" Sometimes the question is, "Who are you reading?" Besides God's Word---the Bible, my answer may be Thomas Watson, Horatio Bonar, Charles Spurgeon, or any of the Puritans...
"So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee." Psalm 73:22 Why am I so foolish?---because I am ignorant. Why am I ignorant?---because I do not know God. Without the knowledge of Him I am but a sinful creature, no different than the other creatures...
Give me not a god, a god that I control. Don’t give me a god that I can mold. I need GOD, the REAL GOD, who knows more than I know. Give me GOD, THE LIVING GOD, who’s free to come and go. GOD, Himself, who created Life, and all living things--- GOD, who...
God's glory, and mother nature, are complimentary. More than this, nature is a reflection of the glory of God, the Father. And yet in this visible world the natural man only sees and knows the mother. Within three days I have encountered this phenomenon from the...
"Meditating on my bed" about the Father's grace and glory since 4:00, by 6:00 several titles and articles had come to mind. In the Draft file already are Musings vs. Amusements, Seeds of Grace, and Graceful Contentment. Like a child my thoughts run to and fro from...
"In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his own will," Ephesians 1:7 "In the beginning" God was a Father. Before He said, "Let there be light," He desired light. No one can put out that light because it was...
"So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy." Romans 9:16 ESV As deists, Voltaire and Diderot attacked Christianity---"their primary weapon aimed at the church was 'truth'." (Dr. Bruce Shelley, Church History in Plain Language*) "We...
"Come unto me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28 Everyone, in this life, carries a burden on his/her shoulders, and a beam in the eye. These come with the territory. Since the Fall this earthly kingdom still has its...
"According to the riches of his grace; wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, according to the good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself." Ephesians 1:7-9 This morning, before I could think "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,"...