I like this post. I love this post. But does a contraction count as one word or two?

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Today’s Spurgeon reading came at a perfect time as I’ve found myself dwelling, perhaps a bit too much, on certain mysteries lately.
From September 5: (This is from the edited modern language version. If you are a traditionalist, replace all You’s with Thee’s and call it good).

Some things in nature remain a [...]

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If you ever have to associate with other people, this post is worth reading.
In short:
Persons ready to take offence, either lack the charity which should cover offences; or the wisdom duly to weigh human frailty; or lastly are gross though close hypocrites, as Christ our Lord teaches (Matt. 7: 1-3).
Read the whole [...]

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With the kids out of school, my morning devotional/study/prayer time has been affected dramatically, so I was highly convicted this morning when I read this.

“I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret prayer. This is [...]

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Great post over at Pyromaniacs
In a nutshell…
Compare the apostle’s vision of manly maturity with John Eldredge’s famous sine qua non of manhood.” Eldredge says, “Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.”
That is a little boy’s lie. That’s the stuff of children’s [...]

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In addition to having the best accent ever (Strom Thurmond running a close second ;-)), Alistair Begg
can discuss some of the ‘less pleasant’ aspects of Christianity with a poignancy I’ve seen in few others.
His TableTalk article, “Pain: God’s Megaphone”, is posted over at the Ligonier blog and is worth a read.
Some highlights:
The biblical writer James [...]

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I’ve been surrounded by a lot of conflict lately.
Between friends.
Between me and friends - my fault.
Between me and friends - their fault (tons of these ;-)).
In my home - always my fault (are you reading this, honey?).
I read a column today (HT: Route 5:9) by Andree Seu [...]

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When I was in High School, I took a style of martial arts called Ishin-Ryu which means “half moon”. Every move you make is done in the shape of a half moon. If you block a punch coming to your face, your blocking hand starts down near your waist and is swung upward in a [...]

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A great post from True North. I like his blog as he just has short posts that get right to the point (perfect for lunch-time reading). Here is a clip of the first part:
John Newton, the famed Reformed hymn writer, was one day called to visit a family that had suffered the loss of all [...]

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After the Dateline program on the terrible 2006 crash that killed five Taylor University students and the subsequent case of mistaken identities, I kept thinking about the why God would allow such a thing to happen to his own. It seems bizarre and random, not the kind of thing that would happen to His chosen. [...]

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