Almost every weekday I talk to husbands and wives who are struggling with the impact of sexual sin on their marriage. The issue that always rises to the top of the heap is the response of wife to husband. That’s the basis of what I was thinking about this morning as I did my 50 [...]

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of times spent with my Great Aunt Grace. The sister of my maternal grandmother, she was a woman of Southern sensibilities and great mystery. She could shoot a gun and wasn’t afraid to use it to protect herself or her neighbors. She belonged to a garden club and [...]

It’s snowing furiously right now and the prediction is ten inches in our area. My husband is flying home from Chicago late this afternoon and I’m watching the snow with that in mind. I don’t think Denver is getting as much as as we are, so hopefully his flight won’t be canceled or delayed. Good [...]

and get out your recipe file! Dorothy from Field Stone Cottage is hosting the April Recipe Roundup on April 17. She says,
“This month’s recipe category will be sandwiches. We all fix ‘em, we all eat ‘em, so let’s broaden our repertoire and share our secret recipes. Now, my definition of sandwich is not limited to [...]

Desiring God has made available John Piper’s new message, Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer, presented at the New World Alive Conference in Wales. It’s a most compelling and important message for the Church today, one that put my head down on the table and my heart in my throat. Please listen.

Exhortation to Prayer ~William Cowper
What various hindrances we meet
In coming to a mercy-seat!
Yet who that knows the worth of pray’r,
But wishes to be often there?
Pray’r makes the dark’ned cloud withdraw,
Pray’r climbs the ladder Jacob saw;
Gives exercise to faith and love,
Brings ev’ry blessing from above.
Restraining pray’r, we cease to fight;
Pray’r makes the Christian’s armour bright;
And Satan [...]

These guys are senior members of the Buck family that we’re seeing a lot of these days around our home. It looks like one is whispering to the other, something like “There they go again with the camera. Just look right at ‘em and don’t even smile…I wish they’d just leave us alone…” Deer can [...]

Behold the throne of grace,
The promise calls us near,
There Jesus shows a smiling face
And waits to answer prayer.
That rich atoning blood,
Which sprinkled round we see,
Provides for those who come to God
An all prevailing plea.
My soul ask what thou wilt,
Thou canst not be too bold;
Since His own blood for thee He spilt,
What else can He withhold.
Beyond [...]

There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after [...]

God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.
And this:
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may [...]