But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day (Proverbs 4:18).
This fact has been especially wonderful to me lately: God speaks to us through His Word. Isn’t that astounding? Growing in grace and in the knowledge of Him is an actual growing, an expanding [...]

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. . .Costly Grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it [...]

Fairest Lord Jesus, Ruler of all nature,
O Thou of God and man the Son,
Thee will I cherish, Thee will I honor,
Thou, my soul’s glory, joy and crown.
Fair are the meadows, fairer still the woodlands,
Robed in the blooming garb of spring;
Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer,
Who makes the woeful heart to sing.
Fair is the sunshine,
Fairer still [...]

When I read from Spurgeon this morning, I felt like I was wearing a bull’s eye. It hit the target, dead center. I share it with you:
Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you (Psalm 55:2).
Care, even when addressed to legitimate matters, if it is carried to excess, has in it [...]

From today’s reading:
Thou hast done for me all things well,
hast remembered, distinguished, indulged me.
All my desires have not been gratified,
but thy love denied them to me
when fulfillment of my wishes would have proved my ruin or injury.
My trials have been fewer than my sins,
and when I have kissed the rod it has fallen from [...]

This is a day of thanksgiving for Harry and me; we’re celebrating our thirty-eighth wedding anniversary. The day will be spent helping couples who feel like they can’t even last the week together, let alone thirty-eight years. What they don’t realize, and what we strive to teach and show them, is that there is tremendous [...]

Jesus, draw me ever nearer
As I labor through the storm;
You have called me to this passage,
And I’ll follow, though I’m worn.
Refrain:
May this journey bring a blessing,
May I rise on wings of faith;
And at the end of my heart’s testing,
With Your likeness let me wake.
Jesus guide me through the tempest
Keep my spirit staid and sure;
When the [...]

The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the starts in the sky and “the lilies of the field”–simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives the mold and shape us. If you want to be of use to God, [...]

I’ve been having trouble having time to actually write something for this blog. So here’s something I wrote last September.
All too frequently I find myself at a place of disquiet and unease, kind of like the psalmist who wrote, “Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?” [...]

Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee.
Take my voice, and let me sing always, only, for my [...]