In Stephen Charnock’s book The Sinfulness and Cure of Thoughts, Stephen lists 15 ways to guard your thought life and encourage holy thoughts. Below is a brief summary of these 15 exhortations. Get accustomed to serious meditation every morning. Pick a morning theme of meditation to a chief companion with you throughout the day. […]
Excerpt from : The Mystery of Providence: Chapter 13 – The Advantages of Recording our Experiences of Providence by John Flavel on the benefits of keeping a journal to record the providence of God in one’s life for the edification of oneself and for others. In consideration of the great and manifold advantages resulting from […]
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” – John 3:3 When we commit our lives to Christ and commit to follow him, we are born into a new world spiritually. The Kingdom of God becomes an internal womb around our spirit. […]
Once Jesus entered the temple, things really started to stir up in Jerusalem during the Passover Feast. Now everything was just fine before Jesus entered the temple, at least that is what the Pharisees would have told you. Everything was running smoothly. Everyone was getting along. The temple was full of business and activity and […]
[responsivevoice_button] Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida 22 Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him. Jesus has been traveling through Gentile territory. He started in Tyre and then he went through Sidon and then to the region of Decapolis on the east side […]
[responsivevoice_button] Jesus Goes for a Walk 24 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. ESV The last location mentioned that Jesus had arrived at was Gennesaret where he and his disciples had moored to the shore after the additional wind storm on the Sea of Galilee and the […]
We love because he first loved us. – 1 John 4:19 [responsivevoice_button] How I wonder about that far-off land! I wish I could catch a glimpse of it as Moses was allowed to catch a glimpse of the promised land. He led others to it but in the end, he was unable to enter into […]
By his light, I walked through the darkness! – Job 29:3 About a month after I returned home from Arkansas after care giving for my sister during her short ten month battle with bladder cancer I had a dream that comforted me through a very dark period afterwards. I found comfort in the dream as […]
NOT LOST, BUT GONE BEFORE “—Will none of you in pity To those you left behind, disclose the secret?” BLAIR’S GRAVE. “I WONDER what becomes of the Frog, when he climbs up out of this world, and disappears, so that we do not see even his shadow; till, plop! he is among us again, when […]
One of the primary things I have learned in my experience with grief, is that grief can be as wicked as cancer. It can cause significant damage in one’s life both internally, spiritually and emotionally, and externally, physically and relationally. I have seen people with strong religious backgrounds abandon their faith in anger and disappointment […]
