Archive for the ‘Devotional Thoughts’ Category

 
 

Christ Is All When Your Husband Dies

This cut scene from the movie We Were Soldiers is sobering. The husband of the woman singing the solo (though she doesn’t know it yet) is killed in that … Read more→

Christ Desires Our Supreme Good

A friend of mine posted these words from Helen Roseveare recently.  May God work these kind of desires in our hearts . . .

Helen Roseveare, a missionary doctor to the … Read more→

Vos On Never-Failing Enjoyment In God

Commenting on the book of Hosea, Vos wrote:

Jehovah strengthened Israel’s arms and taught her to walk [7.15]; although the Giver of all nature-blessings, of corn, wine, oil, silver, gold, wool, … Read more→

Jesus, Joy Of Man’s Desiring

I never knew the song by Bach many people play at weddings is about Christ! He is the joy of man’s desiring. Every joy in all of man’s desiring points … Read more→

Feeling Like Christ Is All And Acting Like Christ Is All

In his book, The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis wrote:

“We have a tendency to think, but not to act.  The more we feel without acting, the less we will ever … Read more→

What Is The Christian’s Greatest Sin?

In a blog post entitled “My Biggest Sin,” McKay Caston writes:
You couldn’t help it, could you? This is gonna be juicy, right? Could be. Okay, let’s get to it. … Read more→

Hating Those We Love The Most . . . Because Jesus Is Better

Jesus said: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own … Read more→

What It Cost To Be The Good Shepherd

The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. Psalm 23:1

This amazing truth is ultimately fulfilled in the Good Shepherd – the Lord Jesus Christ. Only in Him is … Read more→

It All Leads To The Foot Of The Cross!

J. Gresham Machen wrote:

“The Sermon on the Mount, like all the rest of the New Testament, really leads a man straight to the foot of the cross.”

From:  J. Gresham Machen, … Read more→

Do You Want to be a “Rock Star” Preacher?

1.  The LORD makes people great in the eyes of the world as He chooses:

Genesis 12:1-2: Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and … Read more→