Month: August 2018
In what strange quarries and stoneyards the stones for the celestial wall are being hewn! Out of the hillsides of humiliated pride; deep in the darkness of crushed despair; …
Incurvatus in se (Latin for Turned/curved inward on oneself. St. Augustine’s definition of sin.) Sin is, in truth, the hardest of all masters. In its service there is plenty …
Whenever our Lord talked about the relation of a disciple to Himself it was in terms of mystical union: “I am the vine , ye are the branches.” We …
The Bible is a weird book. There, I’ve got that on tape now! It is though. And I mean that as high praise! … Be patient, I tell preachers. …
A good way to avoid the snare of empty religious activity is to appear before God every once in a while with our Bibles open to the thirteenth chapter of first …
The flood of temporal things draws us after itself, but in this flood there is, as it were, a full-grown tree: our Lord Jesus Christ. He took flesh, died, …
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. ~Vance Havner “Let Me tell you …
I charge you never to give up the old doctrine of the blood of Christ, the complete satisfaction which that atoning blood made for sin, and the impossibility of …