A fourth truth about the God to whom we pray is that God is seeking us. We do not find God, but God finds us.
God is the good shepherd who goes looking for the lost sheep. God is the woman who lights a lamp, sweeps out the house, and searches everywhere for her lost coin [...]
Shaunti Feldhahn writes about how modesty really does matter:
“The cultural message is, “Hey, if you’ve got it, flaunt it. Nothing wrong with that.”
The problem is, there is something wrong with that. Yet most women don’t know why it is wrong. So modesty can easily become a “rule” to be resented or brushed aside.
Plus, many men [...]
The following comes from a post last year by Sean Lucas where he talks about preaching law and gospel to motivate people to holiness:
“There is a very interesting discussion going on at the Reformation 21 blog on why it is so much easier for preachers to motivate people to holiness by railing at their sin than by [...]
This is Part 2 of 6 of a quotation from the book The Practice of Piety where Lewis Bayly gives advice to Christians on what to do when they doubt God’s mercy. He examines six different ways that Satan assaults believers:
Satan’s Second Assault
If Satan tells you that you have no faith because you have no [...]
By far and away the most popular post on my blog has been “Will God Forgive My Sin?” where I gave a quotation from the book The Practice of Piety by Lewis Bayly, a very popular book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For the next six days, Lord willing, I hope to expand on [...]
In his book, Transforming Grace, Jerry Bridges has illustration about applying Christian freedom to others and teaching it to our children:
“I think my parents’ pool hall fence was appropriate. But there is a lesson in my experience for all parents: Don’t focus on the fence. If you erect a fence for your children - for [...]
The following encouraging words are from the book, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings by Charles Haddon Spurgeon:
And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was crippled in both feet. (2 Samuel 9:13)
Mephibosheth was no great ornament to a royal table, yet he had a continual place at [...]
The LORD your God is with you,
He is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17
“The only thing that makes life livable is enjoying the joy that comes from knowing one is enjoyed by God.” (Sam Storms, [...]
Leslie Basham interviews Shaunti Feldhahn and Barbara Rainey about wives respecting their husbands.
For thirty days you can’t say anything negative about your husband to him or to anyone else about him. Now when I give that challenge in conferences, I just watch some people who look like they are going to fall off their [...]
Using Psalm 51 as his foundation, Paul Tripp has some helpful encouragement to continually live life in light of the mercy of God.
HT: Justin Taylor
