The great part of every life is made up of duty. While we certainly experience many delights and enjoy many distractions, there is more of duty to life than anything else. The God who creates and calls us also assigns to us many obligations, many responsibilities, many tasks and assignments. The great majority of what we do in a day and in a lifetime is the fulfillment of duty. Even the best of jobs and the most satisfying of vocations …
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Good morning! Grace to you today. (Yesterday on the blog: Savior, Lead Me) Losing Forgiveness “Maybe it has always been thus—the crowd baying in the arena for more gore, more death. The angry revolutionary mob laying hands on whomever and administering ‘justice’ with the zeal of victors rather than the just. People taking picnics to hangings to enjoy the day out at someone else’s expense.” While I Was Still a Marxist This is a neat account of Marvin Olasky’s conversion. …
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I have been reading some of the works of Charles Ebert Orr who wrote in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Besides books he also penned a small number of poems and hymns and, among them, I most appreciated one titled “Savior, Lead Me.” It is a simple profession of confidence in God’s goodness and sovereignty and a simple consecration to his purposes. I think you’ll enjoy it as well. I do not pray that life be spent On flow’ry …
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My gratitude goes to Reformation Heritage Books for sponsoring the blog this week with news of Simonetta Carr’s new book Questions Women Asked. Today’s Kindle deals include a good little book on the psalms along with some classics. (Yesterday on the blog: Money, Debt, and Finances) Dogmatic Dangers Janie Cheaney gets to the root of her disagreement with a liberal Christian friend. “She sees the Bible as quite clear on the second greatest commandment but open to interpretation about the …
Read MoreThis week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by RHB Publications. Everyone who enters will also get a free eBook of Rebecca VanDoodeward’s inspirational Reformation Women. In addition, three of you who enter will be chosen to receive a copy of all the following books: These are the New Titles from RHB Phillis Wheatley by Simonetta Carr The story of a frightened young girl who disembarked a slave ship in 1761 and later became a lauded poet—the first African American and …
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