All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that i...
Imagine you're alive at the end of the Civil War. You're living in the South, but you're a Northerner. You plan to move home as soon as the war's over. While in the South you've accumulated lots of Co...
The Bible tells us we are pilgrims, strangers, aliens and ambassadors working far from home. Our citizenship is in Heaven. But we’ve become so attached to this world that we live for the wrong kingdom...
The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest th...
Not the way it’s supposed to be. Evil is exactly that—a fundamental and troubling departure from goodness. The Bible uses the word evil to describe anything that violates God’s moral will.
In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a long,lonely march up a hill, who in the world's worst hour did the most courageous th...
Looking back, Ruby said, I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You.
Most of us find it very difficult to want Heaven at all—except in so far as Heaven means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our w...
No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present.
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons The
If all the Bibles in America were simultaneously dusted, the sun would be obscured for a week. It’s not a magic talisman that works without being read. A Bible does us no harm as long as it remains cl...
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption...
Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us.
The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do. Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they f...
SCRIVEN (1820–1886) wrote What a Friend We Have in Jesus after his fiancée drowned. George Matheson (1842–1906) wrote O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go after his fiancée rejected him because he was going...
He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how...
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell. —J. C. Ryle
We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we’re wrong.
God, like a father, doesn’t just give advice. He gives himself. He becomes the husband to the grieving widow (Isaiah 54:5). He becomes the comforter to the barren woman (Isaiah 54:1). He becomes the f...
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. —Louis Pasteur
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