My granddaughter Hero is three, and she was being instructed by her mother on her duties to be cheerful because apparently she had been fussin’ a bit. She listened to her mother and said, “Yes ma’am” she would quit the fussin’. As she turned to go, she looked over her shoulder and told her mother, […]

The Beauty of Modesty, Cultivating Virtue in the Face of a Vulgar Culture
By David Vaughan and Diane Vaughan,
Cumberland Press, 2005, 226pp.
Here is a book on modesty that is readable, helpful, thoughtful, carefully written, and doesn’t call women to dress like they lived in the last century.
            Rather than beginning with a list of what […]

I love those who thunder out the Word. The Christian world is in a deep sleep! Nothing but a loud voice can awaken them out of it. -George Whitefield

Somewhere or other in the worst flood of trouble there always is a dry spot for contentment to get its foot on. If there were not, it would learn to swim.

Sabbath dinner presents challenges and blessings if it is done weekly. And though most church families do eat together, feasting is setting the bar higher. So here are a few thoughts about how we can overcome some of the obstacles while we learn to apply the principle of eating our bread with joy (Eccl. 9:7).
 
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God is more willing to pardon than to punish. Mercy does more multiplying in Him than sin in us. Mercy is His nature. -Thomas Watson