. . . that I may gain Christ. – Phil. 3:8 All that a man can have in this life or in the next is Christ. Other things can be gained, but they fall through the fingers. They melt. They are shortly stripped away at death if not sooner. The faceless masses of humanity are [...]
Voices from the Past 3-3-2012
If God sends us on strong paths, then we are always provided strong shoes. – Corrie ten Boom The secret formula of the saints–when I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines. – Samuel Rutherford God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned [...]
Running the Race
The other day, my son Evan and I agreed to take a run together. He was not quite ready and I said I’d start, since he could easily catch up. I kept looking back to see how far I was going to get before he caught me, and then I had this thought. This is [...]
The Church’s Greatest Danger Today
Our greatest danger, I feel today, is to quench the Spirit. This is no age to advocate restraint; the church today does not need to be restrained, but to be aroused, to be awakened, to be filled with a spirit of glory, for she is failing in the modern world. – Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Voices from the Past and Present
If a man is born again, hates sin, and depends on the Savior for life and grace, I do not care whether he is an Arminian or a Calvinist. – John Newton If we get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God the sole authority of our faith and practice, we [...]
A Letter that Dietrich Bonhoeffer Wrote
Here is a quote from a letter that Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his theologically liberal brother–in-law regarding what the Bible had come to mean to him First of all I will confess quite simply – I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions and that we need only to ask [...]
True Christianity is a Fight
True Christianity! Let us mind that word “true.” There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not genuine Christianity. There are thousands of men and women who go to churches every Sunday and call themselves Christians. They make a “profession” of faith in Christ. Their names are in the baptismal [...]
Cheap “Christianity” – J. C. Ryle
“Any of you who does not give up everything he has, cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14:33 What does it cost to be a Christian? I grant freely that it costs little to be a mere outward Christian. A man has only got to attend a place of worship twice on Sunday, and to be [...]
Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings – Part 3
Carpenter, Tolkien’s biographer, tells the story of Lewis’s movement toward and into Christianity. Some of the details of Lewis coming to a theistic position and then subsequently to faith in Jesus Christ as a true Christian, are as follows. Usually his discussions with Tolkien took place on Monday mornings, when they would talk for an [...]
Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings: Part 2
Tolkien’s Characters The characters in Tolkien’s different books developed in his mind from various people he met and knew in real life situations, as well as from his mythological poetry he began to write in the 1920’s. The first of this development of characters was in 1911, while traveling in Switzerland during his summer vacation. [...]
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