“Your whole life ought to be disciplined (i.e., structured, set up, organized, and running day by day) toward the goal of godliness. Everything that happens and everything that you do should contribute something toward reaching that goal. Monday through Saturday, not only Sunday, you must move toward the goal, one step, or two steps or […]
“It is easier to keep the enemy out than it is to expel him after he has gained entrance.” – Author Unknown Charles Spurgeon preached a sermon entitled Little Sins on April 17, 1859. It’s a warning about the danger of little sins in our lives. How we have a tendency to let them slide […]
Create in me a clean heart, O God,and renew a right spirit within me. – Psa.51:10 I dislike coming up with journal and blog entry titles until after I am done writing. I never seem to know what I am going to write until after I have written it. I may start out with an […]
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost […]
Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.” – Luke 21:36 In our battle against sin, it does not matter if we win or lose. Victory belongs to the Lord. […]
John Owen’s seven considerations for mortification: 1. Consider the dangerous symptoms of lust; 2. Get a clear sense of : a. the guilt of the sin, b. its manifold danger, c. the evil of it; 3. Load your conscience with the guilt of the perplexing sin; 4. Have a vehement desire for […]
ETERNAL FATHER, Thou art good beyond all thought, But I am vile, wretched, miserable, blind; My lips are ready to confess, but my heart is slow to feel, and my ways reluctant to amend. I bring my soul to thee; break it, wound it, bend it, mould it, Unmask to me sin’s deformity, […]
Delicacy – something delightful or pleasing, esp. a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like. Sometimes visuals are great aids to help us put things in their proper perspective. Here is a little story that might help you change your view of sin and I apologize in advance to anyone […]
I ran across a great list called 35 Reasons Not to Sin on another blog post. This is a great little reminder list that I printed out and placed inside my own journal. I remember when I quit smoking I carried around a little yellow laminated business card with me that I would take out […]
The soul which rises from out of sin to a devout life has been compared to the dawn, which does not banish darkness suddenly, but by degrees. The slow cure is always the surest, and spiritual maladies, like those of the body, while they are apt to come on horseback and express, tend to […]
