“The person who never meditates with delight on the glory of Christ in the Scriptures now will not have any real desire to see that glory in heaven. What sort of faith and love do people have who find time to think about many other things but make no time for meditating on this glorious subject?” John Owen Our minds are truly wonderfully and marvelously made. One of the great benefits of the mind that the Lord has provided to each of us is our memory. It not only serves us well by familiarity and in helping us in the […]

“Serving may be as appreciated as a good testimony in a worship service, but typically it’s as thankless as washing dishes after a church social. Most service, even that which seems the most glamorous, is like an iceberg. Only the eye of God ever sees the larger, hidden part of it.” Donald S. Whitney In the Gospel of John chapter five our Lord is having a verbal interchange with the Jewish leaders.  Though they were as religiously zealous as any people could be, they refused to recognize or consider Jesus as their Messiah. Our Lord had just healed a man, […]

“When a man is speaking to God he is at his very acme. It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life. Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones I have known several people in my lifetime who refused to attend a funeral, even of a close loved one. They did not want to face the reality of death […]

“If you are Christians, be consistent. Be Christians out and out; Christians every hour, in every part. Beware of halfhearted discipleship, of compromise with evil, of conformity to the world, of trying to serve two masters – to walk in two ways, the narrow and the broad, at once. It will not do. Halfhearted Christianity will only dishonor God, while it makes you miserable.” Horatius Bonar Whether a person is saved or unsaved almost every person has hope in some form of better days ahead. It is something built into us that makes us think that tomorrow will be better […]