Other Men’s Sins
Thomas Brooks (1662) By other men’s sins, a holy man is put in mind of the badness of his own heart. Bernard makes mention of an old man, who, when he saw any man sin, lamented and wept for him;...
View ArticleA Little Known Cure: A Merry Heart
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones,” (Proverbs 17:22). Also, Robert Young translated it, “A rejoicing heart doth good to the body: But a smitten spirit...
View ArticleWhy We Fail To Examine Our Hearts
While keeping the heart involves being students of the Bible and our own hearts, we often find truancy rampant among us dull scholars. Why this aversion to calling a conference with ourselves? The Time...
View ArticleGive Me Your Heart
“Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) “My son, give Me your heart.” (Proverbs 23:26) A “willing” heart (Exodus 35:5)—which acts spontaneously and...
View ArticleThe Humility of Calvin’s Calvinism
Burk Parsons: As the surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves, so the only haven of safety is to have no other will, no other wisdom, than to follow the Lord wherever he leads. Let...
View ArticleLow On Provisions
John Flavel: I am afraid, Christian, you misreckon yourself when you think your provision is almost spent, and that you have a great way to travel. You think you have many years to live, and nothing to...
View ArticleDo Not Be Turned Out Of the Narrow Way!
By Walter J. Chantry Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 2 John 8 (NIV) It will surprise no careful reader of the Bible that many warnings are...
View ArticleThe Hardening Influence of Spiritual Things
“Many a tailor goes in rags, that maketh costly clothes for others; and many a cook scarcely licks his fingers, when he hath dressed for others the most costly dishes… It is a sad thing that so many of...
View ArticleContemplating the Love of God
A.W. Pink, in his work The Attributes of God, said this concerning the love of God: There are many today who talk about the love of God, who are total strangers to the God of love. The Divine love is...
View ArticleTrue to God
Let us draw near with a true heart. – Hebrews 10:22 What is a true heart? It is not a perfect heart, for where there is that to be fond on earth? It is not a heart where sin has no place at all,...
View ArticleHappiness & Circumstances
“Our happiness is not dependent on circumstances. I find Nero growling on the throne. I find Paul singing in the dungeon. I find King Ahab going to bed at noon through melancholy, while nearby is...
View ArticlePlaying God with Your Own Heart
In the latter part of 2010, my family began attending Radford Fellowship, a church plant by Paul Washer and the HeartCry Missionary Society, and around the Christmas holiday of 2012, after weeks of...
View ArticleJohn Calvin, the Idol
In the reformed community, John Calvin is held in high esteem, maybe too high. In the minds of many young, reformed youth, John Calvin is also idolized; as sincerely and as much as the golden calf of...
View ArticleManufacturing Heart Idols
Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and...
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