Our obedience is like the eye of a hurricane. We are not responsible for the hundreds of square miles of storms and violent weather; we are only responsible for our small “eye” of personal responsibility. To put it another way, though we see wickedness and ungodliness all around us we should not [...]
Bless the man that fears Jehovah,
walking ever in his ways;
By thy toil thou shalt be prospered
and be happy all thy days.
In thy wife thou shalt have gladness,
she shall fill thy home with good,
Happy in her loving service
and the joys of motherhood.
Joyful children, sons and daughters,
shall about thy table meet,
Olive plants, in strength and beauty,
full of [...]
My times are in Thy hand;
My God, I wish them there;
My life, my friends. my soul I leave
Entirely to Thy care.
My times are in Thy hand,
Whatever they may be;
Pleasing or painful, dark or bright,
As best may seem to Thee
My times are in Thy hand,
Jesus, the Crucified!
Those hands my cruel sins had [...]
Primarily to Provide Helpful Companionship
Genesis 2:18: “The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Apparently, the creation of Eve solved the problem of Adam’s ‘aloneness’ in God’s eyes. They were perfect companions and had nothing to hide from one another! Also, [...]
1 Peter 1:5-9
In these verses Peter is telling us that something much deeper is going on than a pursuit of worldly ideals might suggest (obtaining a successful marriage that is filled with happiness and satisfaction). Peter is telling us that God is willing to compromise these seemingly essential aspects of marriage in order to produce [...]
(My wife) would have been a superb architect. She could have made a superior surgeon also, or done beautifully in any number of other fields, but I am grateful that she didn’t. Rearing two children and adding emotional wholeness to the world is an achievement that is incomparably more important than any [...]
Teachers in urban public schools send their own children to private schools at nearly double the national rate of private-school attendance, according to a new study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, D.C.
Nationwide, 12.2 percent of all families in urban, rural and suburban settings send their children to private schools. But 21.5 percent [...]
Mahnamahna
I am reading “Preachers with Power” by Doug Kelly. I highly recommend this biographical book about four preachers in the Old South before and during the War Between the States. I thought I’d share a quote from one of those preachers, James Henley Thornwell:
“The glory of Christianity is its Savior, and [...]
Why are Americans shocked at the bad behavior of our soldiers in Iraq. Most Americans believe that we are basically ‘good.’ Therefore, it comes as a surprise when we discover our own people participating in ‘bad’ or even ‘evil’ behavior. But this view of mankind as ‘good’ does not come from a [...]
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