In speaking of the sinner “whose portion is in this life” (Psalm 17:14), John Owen says this: “This is their consolation: a crackling of thorns under the pot, a sudden flash and blaze, that begins but to perish.So that both…
Fictitious Strength
We are novel writers, each of us, weaving imaginative tales of our own feats of strength. With great regularity we live as if these novels we write were actually non-fiction works. Yes, sometimes we fall prey to actually believing we…
The Good Shepherd Protects His Sheep
As Jeremiah Burroughs said, “We are not our own carvers,” meaning that we are not the determiners or our days. Yet how sweetly King Jesus condescends and helps us to rest in His ways and His will. What a comfort…
Knowing Is for Living
“Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.” James 1:21-22 So many throughout…
A New Project
The Lord has wonderfully used family worship as a real means of grace in the Dodd household. If only I had begun to lead my family in worship earlier, I simply didn’t know it was my responsibility. Knowing the fruit…
All the Way My Savior Leads Me
This Fanny Crosby hymn has been a real comfort to my soul in recent days. Jesus truly does do all things well. ~ Lee All the way my Savior leads me; What have I to ask beside? Can I doubt…
Naked and Exposed
“And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” Hebrews 4:13 To the unconverted man, woman, or child this is a fearful truth. From birth…
How Will You Be Remembered?
“And after all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony.…
Desiring their Salvation
“In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” 2 Corinthians 4:4 I…
Rome Denies the Sufficiency of Christ: The Word of Christ is Insufficient
This begins a series of posts showing that Roman Catholicism denies the sufficiency of both the person and work of Jesus Christ. Throughout this series of posts and in plain language I want to show how Rome’s sacramentalism and unbiblical…