How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. Psalm 119:9 (ESV) Continue reading
In the Army Now
No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 2 Timothy 2:4 (ESV) Continue reading
Calvary
“Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.”
J.I. Packer
Bearing Our Cross
“We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.”
Vance Hanver
Transferred Sin
“The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save His church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.”
John Owen
Holy Amazement
“We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.”
John Owen
Check Your ID
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 3:3 (ESV) Continue reading
Marriage
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the church. He is to love her as Christ loved the Church—read on—and gave his life for her (Eph. V, 25). The headship, then, is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most like a crucifixion; whose wife receives most and gives least, is most unworthy of him—is, in her own mere nature—least loveable. For the Church has no beauty but what the Bridegroom gives her; he does not find, but makes her, lovely.”
C.S. Lewis-The Four Loves