Posted in Christian Living, Faith, Great Quotes, tagged christianity, Faith, Religion on November 1, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It must be admitted, that the character and the tendencies of the age are not favorable to deep and mature reflection upon the hidden, spiritual life of the soul. Whirled along as the church of God is, in her brilliant path of benevolent enterprise, - deeply engaged in concerting and in carrying out new and [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement, tagged friendship on October 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It made absolutely no sense today but I did it anyway. Midmorning, I suddenly remembered a friend of mine and her two requests recently that we get together to talk about books. She was looking for some helpful Christian materials and wanted to get some suggestions. It was a chilly, cloudy sort of fall day [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement on October 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This afternoon was one of those brilliant autumn days in Milwaukee where the sky was the deepest blue, and the yellow and red maples were at their most stunning. After church, Tom and I drove to the east side of Milwaukee on the shores of Lake Michigan. We parked and took a walk along Lake [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Faith, tagged Bible, christianity, spirituality on October 16, 2007 | 5 Comments »
A reader read my post below about the issues within conservative churches (Slice Archive Update) and asked what I meant by my references to dead orthodoxy, dead textualism and so forth. I think that the reader thought I had been sipping emergent Kool-Aid. I want to assure them and everyone else that nothing could be [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Scripture, tagged Bible, christianity, Jesus, Ten Commandments on October 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
More Americans know the ingredients of McDonald’s Big Macs than they do the Ten Commandments. This would explain why American morals are going down and weight is going up. This news story was hardly a shock, particularly when American evangelicals are often about as clueless as the rest of the public when it comes to [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Faith, Worship, tagged , christianity, Faith, Jesus, spirituality on October 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“When once the soul of a believer has obtained sweet and real communion with Christ, it looks about him, watches all temptations all ways whereby sin might approach, to disturb him in his enjoyment of his dear Lord and Savior, his rest and desire. How does it charge itself not to omit anything, nor to [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Faith, tagged Christian Living, Faith on October 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Question: How shall we know that we love the reproofs of the Word? (1) When we desire to sit under a heart-searching ministry. Who cares for medicines that will not work? A godly man does not choose to sit under a ministry that will not work upon his conscience. (2) When we pray that the [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Faith, tagged christianity, Faith, spirituality on October 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »
“No single day should pass in the experience of a child of God without washing in the blood. The blood should be upon all his religious duties, engagements, and services. Everything should be purged, purified, and perfumed with the blood of Jesus. This will cleanse, sanctify and beautify all we are and all we do, [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Comfort, Encouragement, Faith on September 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
When you consider that in today’s culture, a young man of 28-years is not even considered a full adult, (think backwards baseball caps and video games), it is astounding that the author of these powerful writings died at the age of 28. Henry Scougal was dedicated to the service of God and diligently trained by [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Comfort, Encouragement, Faith on September 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Jim Bublitz has an excellent post on suffering and how we in America often view it. I really encourage you to read this post because it will really help put things in proper perspective. Jim suffers from the same genetic condition as our son Jonathan. Informally called “brittle bone disease”, Osteogenesis Imperfecta is a genetic [...]
