If you’re interested in expanding your view of marriage and what union with Christ means, this article, “Union with the Bridegroom: Exploring a Biblical Motif” by Ian D. Campbell will likely do just that. It’s posted in Reformation21, the online magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

No flowers are as lovely a blue as those that grow at the foot of the frozen glacier; no stars gleam as bright as those that glisten in the midnight sky; no water tastes as sweet as that which springs up in the desert sand; and no faith is so precious as that which lives [...]

Revive Thy work, O Lord,
Thy mighty arm make bare;
Speak with the voice that wakes the dead,
And make Thy people hear.
Revive Thy work, O Lord,
Disturb this sleep of death;
Quicken the smold’ring embers now
By Thine almighty breath.
Revive Thy work, O Lord,
Create soul-thirst for Thee;
And hungering for the Bread of Life
O may our spirits be.
Revive Thy work, O [...]

Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. When I reach that point, immediately the reality of the supernatural identification with Jesus Christ takes place. And the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable–”I have [...]

I saw this at Ellen’s blog, and just had to try it!

Try it on yours!

From The Valley of Vision:
O Lord,
Help me to honor thee by believing before I feel, for great is the sin if I make feeling a cause of faith.
Show me what sins hide thee from me and eclipse thy love; Help me to humble myself for past evils, to be resolved to walk with more care, [...]

It’s giveaway time again at Challies Dot Com.This month’s sponsor is Fellowship for the Performing Arts. The Fellowship produces audio resources, primarily based around the performances of Max McLean. The prizes:
* First prize: The first prize winner will take home One copy of The ESV Listener’s Bible on CD (as read [...]

Thankfulness is a flower which will never bloom well excepting upon a root of deep humility. ~R.C. Ryle

I’m joining Rebecca and all the others who are making this a month of thanksgiving. Follow the link to her blog take part in giving thanks to God for the abundance of His goodness to us!
Since I’ve been dealing with a back injury for the past few days, I’m thankful that it’s healing and less [...]

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy wounded side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure;
Save from wrath and make me pure.
Not the labor of my hands
Can fulfill Thy law’s demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou [...]