Author Unknown Our highest joys succeed our griefs,And peace is born of pain;Smiles follow bitter blinding tears,As sunshine follows rain. We gain our rest through weariness,From bitter draw the sweet:Strength comes from weakness, hope from…
William Cowper What various hindrances we meetIn coming to the mercy seat!Yet who that knows the worth of prayerBut wishes to be often there! Prayer makes the darkened clouds withdraw;Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw;Gives…
“I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” — Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor Reading this line from a longer poem by Baxter stunned me. I have been…
Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable—and, most of all, fear puts hopelessness at the heart of life, while faith…
Jason Helopoulos tells of a day in Dallas, Texas when he and his wife were walking around the city with her new camera. He noticed a clock on the tall bell tower of a large…
As early as 1937, Dr. H. A. Ironside noted that the biblical doctrine of repentance was being diluted by those who wished to exclude it from the gospel message. He wrote, “The doctrine of repentance…
There’s only one man, the Author of lifewho overcame death and the grave. There’s only one Lamb who is holy enough,whose blood has the power to save. There’s only one Shepherd with love so greatHe’d…
Not grace to bar what is not bliss,Nor flight from all distress, but this:The grace that orders our trouble and pain,And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain. – John Piper
Jesus being crowned with thorns has a message, a message indescribably glorious and wonderful.
There’s a way back to God from the dark path of sin;There’s a door that is open and you may go in:At Calvary’s cross is where you begin,When you come as a sinner to Jesus.…