This morning I read and prayed a prayer from The Valley of Vision, called Earth & Heaven. The middle section struct me so powerfully: My spiritual longings are of thy planting, and thou wilt water and increase them; Quicken … Continue reading My spiritual longings are of they planting…
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that … Continue reading Seek pleasure
Today, as I return from a two week break, I read the following prayer as part of my morning devotions. What a great way to start a new term: O Lord of the oceans, my little bark sails on a … Continue reading I ask great things…
Beautiful things, deserve to be spoken about in beautiful ways! Here, in the following quote, Bennan Manning helps us glimpse and then rejoice in the wonder of grace: The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because … Continue reading two-hundred-proof grace
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; – Phil 3:20 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against … Continue reading Pilgrims
The other day I was finishing reading Daniel L. Akin and Jonathan Akin’s commentary on Ecclesiastes. In the final chapter there is this quote from an unknown source on the Bible. Read it slowly: The Bible This book contains … Continue reading This Book …
In this following quote from Scott Sauls excellent book ‘from weakness to strength‘, I think you can delete the words “in America” and replace them with “in the UK” and it then takes on a sharply prophetic stance for Christianity … Continue reading
