I’m just warning you, if you haven’t done your shopping yet, I think I just about cleared out the Desiring God bookstore. I’d leave a link, but it takes so long to get connected to their server I’m just not gonna do it again. Besides, you know how to get there yourselves, I’m sure. If [...]

“Heart-work is hard work indeed. To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and careless spirit, will cost no great difficulties; but to set yourself before the Lord, and to tie up your loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon him: this will cost you something. To attain ease and dexterity [...]

Since my mind has been whirling around the thoughts about seeing clearly, it went back to a post I wrote last September, which hopefully will serve to expand on the subject, or at least our response to it. If we’re responding well to what God’s word says about specks and logs (Luke 6:41-42) and [...]

He leadeth me, O blessèd thought!
O words with heav’nly comfort fraught!
Whate’er I do, where’er I be
Still ’tis God’s hand that leadeth me.
Refrain
He leadeth me, He leadeth me,
By His own hand He leadeth me;
His faithful follower I would be,
For by His hand He leadeth me.
Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom,
Sometimes where Eden’s bowers bloom,
By waters still, [...]

I’ve prided myself that I’m a nice person, a kind person. Catch that word, prided? In comparing myself to a lot of folks I encounter and observe, my thoughts run this way: how can they do that; I would never think of doing that! What follows, then, is an increase in my esteem of myself. [...]

His candle shines upon my head.
He trims the wick and guards the flame
and though the darkness creeps in close
the steadfast taper shines the same.
The flower of flame sways in the air.
Wind fingers snatch and try to snuff
the stalk his careful hands protect.
The light shines through. It is enough.
His candle shines on me in love,
(protective circle [...]

To grow in faith is a means to persevere in faith. Man is of an active nature; either he grows better or worse. We shall not keep what we have received if we do not labour to increase in it, as a house begun to be built goes to decay and drops down more and [...]

The Desiring God blog has announced an online sale! Every book in the Desiring God bookstore can be bought for $5.00 on June 27-28! No limits!
They’re living up to their desire to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ. [...]

The slogan seems true, doesn’t it? It’s very easy—usual, I’d say—to get caught up in the day-in-day-out mundaneness of work, kids, laundry, what to eat, walk the dog, with a flat tire thrown into the whole shebang. Just keeping our noses above water takes supreme effort, but at the end of the day we [...]

“Do all the good you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.” –John Wesley, 1703-1791
Now, there’s a challenge for the week ahead, or for the rest of our lives…