“There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health” (Proverbs 12:18, NKJV). With great and swelling words The revolutionaries speak. Like the piercing of a sword, They lash with their tongues The established order of the...

A poem about identity written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who held a theologically-rooted opposition to National Socialism.

Happiness is the primary object of human pursuit. The desire for happiness urges our weary steps in the pilgrimage of life.

Puritan Prayer: Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision. Let me learn by paradox that…

The people of the Lord should be very thankful for His presence with them in their greatest troubles and deepest distresses.

What a weighty responsibility attaches to those who have the immortal souls of children committed to their care!

Where your imagination goes will greatly affect your life. Wise words of wisdom from Oswald Chambers can help you make good decisions.

Very beautiful is the figure of the loom. God is the Weaver. He has before Him the pattern into which He would fashion our lives.

In Christ, there is no East or West, In Him no South or North, But one great Fellowship of Love, Throughout the whole wide earth.

The Apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world. In our...

O Lord! I would delight in Thee, And on Your care depend; To You in every trouble flee, My best, my only Friend!

Mat 26:40  And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Every word is incisive--every syllable is an arrow whose point has been dipped in yearning and wounded love. 1. The sleep is...

To me death has its unlovely aspects. I may be ready by God’s grace to meet it, and yet I recoil instinctively from the act of dying.

To the imagination of the young, life seems long. They catch no echo of “the roar of the waves of eternity, as they dash on the shores of time.”

O Lord! I would delight in Thee, And on Your care depend; To You in every trouble flee, My best, my only Friend!

Lost in astonishment, I see Jesus, Your boundless love to me! With sin and self, I freely part, And gladly yield to You, my heart!

An anonymous poem thought to date back to the days of Martin Luther presents a very convicting message.

Meditate a little on the mercy of God — tender, great, undeserved, rich, manifold, abounding, and unfailing mercy! 

I asked God for strength. That I might achieve. I was made weak. That I might learn humbly to obey. Read the whole poem…

Psa 46:1-2 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed…

"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble!" Psalm 46:1 "Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards." The world in which we dwell is but "a valley of tears." Sin has caused these tears to flow, and every sinner must, sooner or...

The Holy Spirit brings us as poor sinners to look to Jesus alone, as our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

As creatures, we all need an object of trust, one on whom we can lean, one in whom we can confide, one to whom we may look for defense and safety. Every creature has some rock--some object of dependence and trust. For without this, there would be recklessness or...

Spirit of Jesus, sanctify us deeply and thoroughly–that we may be just like Jesus! Sanctify us by every trial, by every affliction, by every privilege, by every comfort!