Recently Convicting
Your life as a Christian is seemingly full of Christ and there is no room for self, but an aggressive sin comes in and wiggles his way in, crowding out Christ just a little bit. You give place to this sin and soon another does the same thing. Sin by sin, error by error, selfishness … Read more
Yes, Very Much So
I’ve been trying to come up with a short summary of my summer and have realized that short summaries are just not possible. In its entirety, my summer was quite amazing. There were no paramount events or incidences; just paramount change. I am not the same woman I was at the beginning of the summer, … Read more
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For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace … Read more
I needed to read this
A post from my friend* Tim Challies. This is just about my favorite time of day. The house is quiet and no one else awake. It allows me a few minutes to myself—time I use every day to read the Bible and pray. I know that in a few minutes the family will begin to … Read more
A Gospel Primer-revisited
By Milton Vincent: A Heart for the Lost, pp.25-27 The more I rehearse and exult in gospel truths, the more there develops within me a corresponding burden for non-Christians to enter into such blessings. This is also what seems to happen to the Apostle Paul while writing the book of Romans. In Romans 5 Paul … Read more
A Gospel Primer
By Milton Vincent: A Heart for the Poor, pp.38-39 Like nothing else could ever do, the gospel instills in me a heart for the downcast, the poverty-stricken, and those in need of physical mercies, especially when such persons are of the household of faith. When I see persons who are materially poor, I instantly feel … Read more
Holiness: the command
What is is about the Christian walk that some people can look at the call to holiness, say “yeah, that’s what I need to do,” and then turn and walk away from it? Sometimes those people push others toward holiness, but can’t/won’t/haven’t tried on their own. On the other side of that, there are some … Read more
