Now here is a word we don’t hear so much. Living in our promiscuous society, we ought to look for opportunities to use words like chaste, chastity, and chasteness. Great words. (I’m not really suggesting we wear them written on t-shirts or on the seat of sweatpants, but it would be novel.) Now what do […]

Faith can make use of the waters of affliction to swim faster to Christ. -TW

Afflictions scour us of our rust. Adversity, like winter weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish. -Dr. Arrowsmith

A true believer lives upon free grace as his necessary food. And indeed, he who has really tasted the sweetness of grace, can live upon nothing else. -Augustus Toplady

It is indeed a great piece of self-denial to be silent when we have enough to say, and provocation to say it; but if we do thus control our tongues, out of a pure regard for peace and love, it will turn to a good account and will be an evidence for us that we […]

I’ve written a bunch on the duty of wives to respect their husbands, but as I live through the different stages of my own marriage, it astounds me how applicable God’s instructions are to all of us all the time. So I’m assuming another whack at it can’t hurt. New wives learn to respect their […]