February 5, 2008

• Why “all” does not mean ALL

  If Christ on His cross intended to save every man, then He intended to save those who were lost before He died. (…) Read more »

February 2, 2008

• The Christian’s Joy

  The delight of the senses here, cannot be known by expressions, as they are felt; how much less this joy! This is the “white stone” which none knoweth but he that reciveth,” Rev ii. (…) Read more »

January 26, 2008

• Market day for the soul

  I wondered for a long time, what Preparing for the Lord’s Day meant. (…) Read more »

October 12, 2007

• Through Briar and Bush

  A Poem by Faith cook based on letter 131 of Samuel Rutherfords Letters. (…) Read more »

October 10, 2007

• Honour to all the brave and true

  Honor to all the brave and true! Everlasting honor to brave old Knox, one of the truest of the true! (…) Read more »

October 7, 2007

• A bed of torture

  I feel I know this bed of torture at times. This is from the pen of Thomas Chalmers written in his defense in some early controversy which could have stopped his ministry before it even began. (…) Read more »

October 4, 2007

• A tortured faith that turned to an indefatiguable faith

  If like me, you suffer at times in certain aspect with what could shamefully be called "wishy washy faith"  then the same as myself you may take encouragement from some of the great men of God of the past who had a real struggle to lay hold of an indefatiguable faith.  For anyone who knows [...] Read more »

October 3, 2007

• Help me, O God

  Let us rejoice, however, in the assurance, that while in the world we shall have tribulation, in Christ we shall have peace. (…) Read more »

September 30, 2007

• Spurgeon's need for variety in preaching

  Don’t folks say, "variety is the spice of life"? (…) Read more »

September 25, 2007

• Instruments of God's Providence

  The instruments employed by Providence for you are of special consideration, and the finger of God is clearly seen by us when we persue that meditation. (…) Read more »

September 23, 2007

• Patience, patience, patience! Lord increase our faith.

  I feel not the shadow of inclination to communicate the mental trials I have had to endure, and the deep waters through which I am passing. (…) Read more »

September 22, 2007

• Humble reflection

  The missionary of Jesus will have cause to reproach himself that he served not his Lord more fully, but not that he was a missionary. (…) Read more »

September 21, 2007

• What we leave behind

  My name, and my place, and my tomb, all forgotten,
  The brief race of time well and patiently run;
  So let me pass away, peacefully, silently,
  Only remembered by what I have done. (…) Read more »

September 19, 2007

• Thirsting for rest

  O love that casts out fear
  O love that casts out sin.
  Tarry no more without,
  But come and dwell within. (…) Read more »

September 18, 2007

• On Worship

  For God is not worshiped of us, but when it is his will to accept our worship: and it is not his will to accept our worship, but when it is according to his will. (…) Read more »

September 17, 2007

• The Pertinency of the Puritans

  There is a closeness and a pertinency, and a power in the writings of the good old Puritans, of which we fall greatly short in these days of feebleness and degeneracy…From them you are most likely to carry away the impression that a preparation for eternity should be the main business and anxiety of our [...] Read more »

September 15, 2007

• Thine to serve thee

  If thou findest me short in things, impute that to my love of brevity. If thou findest me besides the truth in anything, impute that to mine infirmity. (…) Read more »

September 14, 2007

• God's strengthening, upholding and conqueroring love

  And here it is of great practical importance to remark, that the way in which God often manifests His protecting and fatherly care of us, is, not by obtaining for us the safety of a flight; but, better and nobler than this, the triumph of a victory. (…) Read more »

September 9, 2007

• Give me a sanctified affliction O'Lord

  I love the Valley of Vision prayers; as we can always find something that sounds as if it had come from within our own heart. (…) Read more »

September 6, 2007

• Perfect Providence

  It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straits, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all in all the states and through all the stages of their lives. (…) Read more »