Abstain from the passions of the flesh, which war against your soul. - 1 Peter 2:11 The general nature of indwelling sin is that it is always at enmity with us. There can be no terms of peace. It must be abolished and destroyed, every part and parcel of it. Every drop of poison is … Continue reading You Cannot Satisfy Sin By Sinning – John Owen
"These all died in faith . . . they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth" - Hebrews 11:13 The day of life with them is ended. Its duties are ended. Its responsibilities are passed. Its hours are fled away. What a trying day some of them had! How stormy. How sultry. How … Continue reading You Will Soon Be Home
Out of the 60 books I read this year, eight were given five-star ratings. Here are my favorites regardless of the genre and in no particular order. The Autobiography of Spurgeon - Vol. 1 - Charles Spurgeon This book is significant in length and full of thoughts of a man filled with the Spirit of … Continue reading The Best Books I Read this Year
And He took with Him Peter and James and John and began to be very distressed and troubled. - Mark 14:33 If our Lord, who was sinless, had times in which He became distressed, how should we who are sinful expect to escape them? There have been many people who have preached what is called the … Continue reading Distressed Yet Victorious
How can God get camels through a needle's eye, and what exactly is the difficulty to which this metaphor is referring?
Sin digs every grave and wrings out every sigh and wail from earth and hell. Sin is the worst of all evils. Nothing can compare with it. It is worse than the plague. Sin is unspeakably hateful. God calls it horrible and abominable. Godly men in every age lament it--lament it much in others, most … Continue reading Sin Digs Every Grave
"There brake He the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle." --Psalm 76:3 Our Redeemer's glorious cry of "It is finished," was the death-knell of all the adversaries of His people, the breaking of "the bow and the battle." Behold the hero of Golgotha using His cross as an anvil, … Continue reading Jesus: The Mighty Breaker
When we become lifted up with pride, and think we deserve something good at God's hands--it is impossible to satisfy us. But with the humble is wisdom, quietness, gentleness, and contentment. He who expects nothing, because he deserves nothing, is sure to be satisfied with the treatment he receives at God's hands. The proud man … Continue reading Thoughts on Contentment – William Plummer
A good devotional is like a spiritually-minded friend who turns your eyes away from the things of the world and sets them on things above whenever you spend time with them; both are extremely rare. There are too many devotionals these days that are like poorly made junk food. Not only do they lack nourishment, … Continue reading Book Review: Voices From The Past – Puritan Devotional Readings
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. - James 4:7 Satan always seeks to your usurp our territory. By yielding in one temptation we let the devil into our trench and give him a fair advantage to do us more mischief. The angry man, while he is raging … Continue reading How to Resist the Devil
The Fight of Faith 