The pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching. If there is an itch one does want to scratch; but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. As long as we have the itch of self-regard we shall want the pleasure of self-approval; but the happiest moments are those [...]

Scientists know that light travel at the speed of 5.87 trillion miles a year. They also know that the galaxy of which our solar system is a part is about 100,000 light-years in diameter—about 587,000 trillion miles. It is one of about a million such galaxies in the optical range of our most powerful telescopes. [...]

“All gracious affections have a tendency to promote this Christian tenderness of heart… the higher a holy hope is raised, the more there is of this Christian tenderness. The banishing of a servile fear, by a holy assurance, is attended with a proportionable increase of a reverential fear. The diminishing of the fear of the [...]

I have often been irritated with the way many evangelicals insist on preaching from a self-written, uninspired, 5th gospel, which they call A Harmony of the Gospels. They fit together the four different accounts of the life of Christ, attempting to reconstruct history. After their history is “neatly” constructed they exegete and preach their account [...]

Comments on Ed Stetzer’s Post.

My brother Joe has a strong desire to teach in the inner-city public school system. This video helped me to dream with him. Praise God for teachers like this. Even though Lindsay (the teacher in the above film) isn’t necessarily teaching the gospel to her students, she is gospel teaching. She is striving to do [...]

Psalms 119:91 By your appointment they [heavens and earth] stand this day, for all things are your servants.
All things… the Middlemist Red Flower, 11688 San Ysidro Drive, wasps, clouds, fortune cookies, eBay, Johnny Cash, the billiard hall down the street, public radio, 3M, green olive pizza, stars, thermometers, MTV, my 3rd grade science text book, [...]

“One of the greatest misconceptions of heaven is that it is static, unchanging, and immutable, as if to say that all we get we get all at once, at the beginning. The idea many have is that we are transformed at its inception as much as we ever will be. No. But [...]

Here is a song by John Newton that I heard before for the first time at Together 4 The Gospel Conference, this week.  Let it sink deep.
I Asked The Lord
I asked the Lord that I might grow in faith and
love and every grace, might more of
His salvation know and seek more
earnestly His face
Twas He who [...]