Withholding Love is Damnation
CS Lewis in The Four Loves: “There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping…
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SYNOPSIS Based on his most popular sermon series, New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller delivers an extraordinarily insightful look at the keys to happiness in marriage. Few subjects are as compelling-or as endlessly variable-as love and marriage. The Bible is…
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SUMMARY: Addressing mission, evangelism, and social justice, two pastors draw readers to the Bible s teaching on some contentious matters. Social justice and mission are hot topics today: there’s a wonderful resurgence of motivated Christians passionate about spreading the gospel…
Spurgeon and Psalm 38
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) wrote a great devotional commentary on the Psalms called “The Treasury of David.” (Its massive, and highly recommended. You can get an cheaper abridged version of it here). Reading Psalm 38 this morning, and I love his comments…
The Duty of Joy
From When The Darkness Will Not Lift by John Piper: We should never say to ourselves or another person in the season of darkness, “Just do your work. Just do your duty. Just act like a Christian, even if you…
Making Christ Our Habit
An excerpt from this morning’s reading in Mornings and Evenings with Charles Spurgeon: There must be a perpetual abiding in Christ. How many Christians think that in the morning and evening they ought to come into the company of Jesus,…
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DESCRIPTION: “It is utterly crucial that in our darkness we affirm the wise, strong hand of God to hold us, even when we have no strength to hold him.” - John Piper Even the most faithful, focused Christians can encounter…
Taking Comfort In The Unchangeable God
Charles Spurgeon: “I am the Lord, I change not. ” – Malachi 3:6 It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on…