Friend, have you had no date of late? Or have you had dates galore but found them each a bore? Were you looking for Mr or Mrs Right, only to have to tell ‘em to fly a kite!
Did you think you’d met “the one”? Was the first date oh such fun? Full of laughter, not [...]
From Bryan Chapell:
One day not too long ago, I went to the hospital to visit my friend Eric, who was dying of a brain tumor. Months of fighting the cancer with chemo and prayer had seemed futile. I came to encourage Eric and had no idea how powerful his ministry would be to me. In [...]
Would we know that the major chords were sweet,
If there were no minor key?
Would the painter’s work be fair to our eyes,
without shade on land or sea?
Would we know the meaning of happiness,
Would we feel that the day was bright,
If we’d never known what it was to grieve,
Nor gazed on the dark of night?
Excerpted from [...]
Those who know me well probably already know that I’m a big fan of comics and cartoons and comic books and animations and cartoon or comic strips and all that stuff which most adults would likely relegate to the annals of their childhood. So, for what it’s worth, if anything, I thought I’d give you [...]
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Tagged Animation, Anime, Cartoons, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Comics, humor, Just for Fun, movies, Personal, television, TV
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Mad props to the ‘propriate peeps for such a powerful presentation (which is also available on YouTube):
Be sure to check out more videos from Student Life (e.g. How Does He Love Us?, His Grace, and for some lighthearted physical comedy, Failing Love: Cupid). There are loads of (mostly) good videos to go through.
The following is from Sinclair Ferguson (whose Scottish accent is at least as cool as Alistair Begg’s if not more so, IMHO):
[W]here we cannot understand we can still trust.
This requires a deliberate commitment of the mind. That hurts when our natural instinct is to let our minds and emotions dwell on our pain, loss, and [...]
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Tagged Benjamin, death, Genesis, Hebrew, Jacob, Quotations, Rachel, Sinclair Ferguson, Suffering, Trial, Trials
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The following is from Amy Carmichael:
And shall I pray thee change thy will, my Father?
Until it be according unto mine?
But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather
I pray thee blend my human will with thine.
I pray thee hush the hurrying, eager longing,
I pray thee soothe the pangs of keen desire –
See in my quiet [...]
Lisa Nunley recommended checking out this great ministry called The Shepherd’s Crook Ministries. So I did. I’ve been browsing through it, and it truly does look excellent! There are a couple of very moving testimonies and other stories to read. And lots of photos which endear one to the children as well. Please do [...]
How true!
From C.H. Spurgeon:
‘I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.’ (Hosea 2:14)
The goodness of God sees us allured by sin, and it resolves to try upon us the more powerful allurements of love. Do we not remember when the Lover of our souls first cast a spell [...]
One of the best comic books ever is now a soon to be released feature film (and, if I’m not mistaken, the song sounds like it’s sung by the Smashing Pumpkins — a personal fave music band, or at least they used to be back in the day):
(In case you can’t view the above teaser [...]
Jonathan Edwards tells the story of a young woman whom Christ lovingly saved after having lived a life of debauchery. Shortly thereafter, her health failed, and after a slow and painful process, the young woman herself died. Edwards recounts:
She had great longings to die, that she might be with Christ; which increased till she [...]
Bryan Chapell tells the story of Mae Gabriel, a woman who truly knew how to pray:
I once had the privilege of caring for a small, aging German lump of sugar named Mae Gabriel. Mae was in her late eighties. She still knew much of her German Bible and spent the day humming the hymns of [...]
Holy dark, brooding superheroes, Batman! James Berardinelli gives the latest Bat flick four out of four stars.
As believers, things may befall us which are not at all good for us in any way, shape, or form.
Worse, perhaps, we may not understand why any of these things befell us. After all, not every saint can look back on a trial as Joseph did and declare, “As for you, you meant evil against [...]
Brethren, let us not judge how much God loves us by how things seem to be going in our lives. Don’t think God doesn’t love you because this or that bad thing happened to you.
On the contrary, everything could be going perfectly well. We could legitimately say to ourselves, “I am rich, I have prospered, [...]
I wanted to say a few words about overcoming trials and afflictions.
The more our gaze is turned upon Christ as our first love, the more we value his cross and his gospel as the things of first importance, the more we abide in him by abiding in his word, and especially in sitting underneath a [...]
Is not our greatest consolation in trials and afflictions Christ himself? Indeed he is. As the prophet Isaiah says (43:2): “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not [...]
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Ah, how I love the smell of blog in the morning! Check out the comboxes here and here for details.
And, to whet your appetite, here’s one of my fave moments. It takes place when armchair atheist “Evan” apparently decides spouting off his latest diatribes against God, the Bible, and Christianity just ain’t good [...]