Our bodies are not supported by merely taking food into the mouth, but the process that really supplies the muscle and the nerve and the sinew and the bone is the process of digestion. It is by digestion that the outward food becomes assimilated with the inner life. Our souls are not nourished merely by [...]

The first time Harry and I planted a tree we didn’t have the foggiest idea of what we were doing, so we did a little research. We had noticed that many trees around town were still tied to support stakes, even when they had obviously been planted years ago. Was that necessary? Through our research [...]

“Well-fortified cities have broad walls, and so did Jerusalem in her glory days. The New Jerusalem must, similarly, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of nonconformity to the world and separation from its patterns and ideas. There is a tendency today to break down this holy barrier and make the distinction between the [...]

“Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it to you. Seek it this morning before you go into the world. When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.” ~Charles H. Spurgeon
You, O Lord, have made me glad by [...]

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18
“Every believer understands that to know God is the highest and best form of knowledge; and this spiritual knowledge is a source of strength to [...]

“After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace…will Himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.” -1 Peter 5:10
You have seen the arch of heaven as it spans the plain: Glorious are its colors, and rare its hues. It is beautiful, but, sadly, it passes away, and the rainbow is no more. [...]

No human mind can adequately estimate the infinite value of the divine sacrifice, for although the sin of God’s people is great, the atonement that takes it away is immeasurably greater. Therefore, even when sin rolls in like a flood, and the remembrance of the past is bitter, the believer can still stand before the [...]

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 [...]

“Here we are in the month when flowers come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all dressed with beauty. Come, my soul, put on your springtime clothes and gather garlands of heavenly thoughts. You know where to go, for the “beds of spices” are well known, and you [...]

“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 [...]