You ask. You suggest. You try to reason. No success. But the matter is urgent and learning is not up for debate. The mind is not willing. The heart is not open to correction. The child has decided to disobey. So out of kindness, you decide to push the back of his head to make … Continue reading
Dreamers
They gave themselves to the reading of the word and to prayer. The result? Thousands were saved in Christ. The power of God moved among the people with unprecedented strength. A Legacy was built for billions. We have one life to live. What will be said of us when we are ushered into his holy … Continue reading
Slow Dance with a Dead Body
It’s a really weird title, isn’t it. It draws a mental picture that probably shouldn’t be in our head. But think about the following. Don’t we get kind of miffed if when we talk to someone they absolutely ignore us? And what if someone came to you like this: looking at the ground they mutter … Continue reading
The Great Apathy
Reflecting on the Great Flood, Charles Spurgeon says this: “How marvellous the general apathy! They were all eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till the awful morning dawned.” Of any moment, place or identity of Man is just this way. What meager number of this day will refuse to be one of the … Continue reading
Golden Silence?
Every day more babies are born. Every day more children come of age to understand the complicated things of life. Every day adults are faced with their own unrighteous inadequacy before God. Every day there are people who have struggled to grasp the gospel and are losing their faith little by little because no one … Continue reading
The Consuming Truth
The following is a hard truth, yet only hard because that is the nature of so many hearts. “For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.” —2 John 2 Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdue the whole man unto … Continue reading
Words From There 