Can Reading Your Bible Be Legalistic?
For a few years now I have heard people saying that they don’t want to be legalistic about reading their Bible, so instead of reading through it systematically they might do something like opening...
Category: diligence
What Have You Started But Not Completed?
Are there things in your life and in your home that you at one time were very enthusiastic about starting, but now they have been sitting for a while, uncompleted? I know I have...
This Day, and That Day
I was reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan the other day, since we are going through it in our church’s home Bible studies, and I came across this quote from Martin Luther: “There are...
Why It’s OK for Christians to Make an Effort
For a few years now I have been increasingly bothered by something I have seen in Christianity – an underlying belief that it’s bad to work at, strive, and make an effort to grow,...
Don’t Look at the Clouds… & UK Fellowship Friday
I was up in the night several times from 4am onwards with little ones. Just as I was thinking I might get a small amount of sleep, another one woke up crying! So I...
The Bible’s Call to Action
It warmed my heart to read this, in an old Puritan book called Precious Remedies against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks: ‘If any should ask me, what is the first, the second, the third...
The Balance of God’s Effort and Ours
Yesterday I was sitting on the couch doing some private prayer time with my lovely quilt lying over me. My mother hand-quilted it for me about 10 years ago. She had wanted to make me...
Do Your Best and Commit the Rest
Earlier this week I was feeling discouraged wondering how I could possibly do all of the things I’m supposed to do. Then I remembered Chuck Smith’s saying: “Do your best and commit the rest”....
How Should the Possibility of a Rapture Today Affect Us?
Many people probably know that there has been a prediction that the rapture would happen TODAY! You can read about it here, in an interview with Harold Camping by CNN. He says he has no doubt...
