Dependence on God
The Lord brings trials and difficulties, as well as challenging situations of all kinds, in order that the Christian might be constantly dependent on him. Every challenge is given in order that we might go back to him and find…
Hamstrung Prayers: How We Misuse ‘Your Will Be Done’
“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10) There are two prominent dangers into which our prayers can fall: the danger of no faith, and the danger of false faith. The danger…
On Man as a Creature
Agnoete: Mankind has taken a great step forward! He is on the verge of even greater things. New technologies and inventions will soon allow him to overcome many of the limitations of the past. Theophilus: This is the great danger…
The Value of Reproof (Thomas Watson)
“…Do we love the convictions of the Word? Do we love the Word when it comes home to our conscience and shoots its arrows of reproof at our sins? It is the minister’s duty sometimes to reprove. He who can…
On the Nature of Man
Agnoete: What an amazing animal is mankind! He evolved from apes and chimps, but he is able to reason and think and communicate and create! Theophilus: This is because man is more than an animal; though he resembles animals in…
10 Tips to Boost Your Bible Reading
1 – Make it a habit. The single most important step you can take to grow spiritually is to commit to daily Bible reading. Don’t commit for a day, a week, or a month – commit for life! If you do so, reading…
Worshipping as a Monotask
Four Monotasks Two months ago I wrote about how to keep your phone from preventing monotasks. Today I want to continue pursuing the idea of ‘monotasking’ from a Christian perspective. I also want to be intensely practical. Wine (author of…
The Great Gamble
Biblical faith is not blind, but it is a gamble. It is reasonable and evidential, but it involves risk. Faith is the risk of taking God at his Word. It’s easy to read the Word, go to church, pray, spend…
The Present and Eternity
This excerpt, from ‘The Screwtape Letters’ is too good to pass up. It’s a letter from Screwtape, an older devil, teaching his student, Wormwood, how to tempt humans. Remember that, in this dialogue, ‘Our Enemy’ refers to God, while ‘us’…
On Dying to the World
“On the whole, learn by divine grace, to die to the present world; to look upon it as a low state of being, which God never intended for the final and complete happiness, or the supreme care of any one…
