Definition: To exercise authority over oneself by submitting one’s own emotions, desires, thoughts, and actions to the Word of God. This includes being sober, clear-minded, serious, watchful, alert, and vigilant.
God is the source of self-control; God’s grace teaches us to live soberly.
Galatians 5:22- 23: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, […]

When my dad was a young man, he once went to pick up a young lady for a date, and while he waited for her, her mother hauled out her daughter’s hope chest to show my dad how much loot she had. Far from impressing him, had she been trying her best to scare him […]

From Thomas Watson’s All Things For Good: 
To walk worthy of our calling is to walk wisely. Walking wisely implies three things.
1. To walk warily. “The wise man’s eyes are in his head” (Eccles. 2:14). Others watch for our halting, therefore we had need look to our standing. We must beware, not only of scandals, but […]

You might answer, “I’m not looking for a man!” But let’s be honest about this. Of course you are looking for a man, and there is not one thing wrong with that. The wrong would be for you to flat out deny it. Now I don’t think it is godly or healthy or wise to […]

My husband is a big fan of H.L. Mencken, who wrote on just about every subject. Here is a Mencken quote he came across on how women tend to over-estimate the importance of “mere physical beauty” to men.
 ”. . . of infinitely more value is a quality that women often neglect, to wit, the quality of […]

“It is a hard lesson. You know that when a child is first taught, he complains: This is hard; it is just like that. I remember Bradford the martyr said, ‘Whoever has not learned the lesson of the cross, has not learned his ABC in Christianity.’ This is where Christ begins with his scholars, and […]