The Church’s one foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord,
She is His new creation
By water and the Word.
From heaven He came and sought her
To be His holy bride;
With His own blood He bought her
And for her life He died.
She is from every nation,
Yet one o’er all the earth;
Her charter of salvation,
One Lord, one faith, one birth;
One holy [...]

And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life [...]

Alistair Begg started a sermon series this week called “Journey to the Cross,” a study on Christ’s final steps to the cross. You can listen on the radio or on his ministry website, Truth For Life, found here. It’s very worthwhile listening, especially as we are preparing our hearts for Easter.

Tim of Challies Dot Com  says “Testimonies stand as evidence of God’s grace, showing God’s ability and desire to save people of all types and from all walks of life. They inspire Christians to appreciate the goodness and grace of the Lord. They are also valuable for witnessing to others. So I thought I would [...]

“Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial to the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the Gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel and not the truth of God at all. All alterations and amendments of [...]

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having [...]

 As usual, the Desiring God Blog provides worthy reading this morning. This time it comes from Sam Crabtree. These paragraphs give the gist of the article, “Survival Isn’t Always Important,” which he gave as a devotional to the Bethlehem staff:
“If we make survival the chief goal, we very often can survive, but what do we [...]

Once upon a sunny spring morning, the following was heard in our kitchen:
Harry ( taking a lidded travel mug out of the cupboard and spilling old coffee from it): Aaakkk! this mug is dirty…
Me: Ohh…that must have been me. I thought it was clean when I put it away…Sorry….Are you gonna invoke the Lemon Law? [...]

I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. Oh, [...]

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.
Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing;
Were [...]