On Growing in Grace for the Sake of our Children -Douglas Jones-
“Children are a means of sanctification because they are daily adopting their parents’ character, virtues and vices and all. This is a blessing when we are faithful, but it’s a frightening mirror when...
View ArticleOn Seasons of Grace -Thomas Watson-
“Make seasons of grace, opportunities of service.” Thomas WatsonFiled under: Grace, Growing in Grace, Service, Thomas Watson Tagged: Grace, Growing in Grace, Service, Thomas Watson
View ArticleOn Having a Watchful Heart -John Flavel-
“It is the watchful heart that discovers and suppresses the temptation before it becomes its strength.” John Flavel, Keeping the HeartFiled under: Growing in Grace, Mortification of Sin, Perseverance,...
View ArticleOn Learning to Pray -Elisabeth Elliot-
“Learning to pray is learning to trust the wisdom, the power, and the love of our Heavenly Father, always so far beyond our dreams. He knows our need and knows ways to meet it that have never been...
View ArticleOn Not Resenting Our Place in the Story -N.D. Wilson-
“Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body...
View ArticleOn Time & Evil -C.S. Lewis
“Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, ‘with backward mutters of discerning power’ -or else not.” C.S. Lewis, The Great...
View ArticleOn Praying the Psalms -Bonhoeffer
“If we want to read and pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do Jesus Christ.” BonhoefferFiled under:...
View ArticleOn The Blessed Routine of a Mom and Wife -E. Elliot
“The routines of housework and of mothering may be seen as a kind of death, and it is appropriate that they should be, for they offer a chance, day after day, to lay down one’s life for others. Then...
View ArticleOn Trusting God -Thomas Watson
“Trust Him where you cannot trace Him.” Thomas WatsonFiled under: Anxiousness, Growing in Grace, Patience, Thomas Watson, Trusting God, Unbelief Tagged: Thomas Watson, Trusting God
View ArticleOn Speaking Light Words -John Flavel
“Light words weigh heavy in God’s balance.” John Flavel, Works: The Art of Preserving the Fruit of the Lips Filed under: Christian Virtues, Discretion, Growing in Grace, John Flavel, Keeping the...
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