Stealing Friendships

…Though all this be true, yet it has been the portion of God’s dearest saints and servants to be slandered, reproached, vilified, and falsely accused: Ps xxxi. 18, Let the lying lips be put to silence, which speak grievous things proudly, and contemptuously...

The School of Temptation

Temptations make a Christian more serviceable and useful to others. None so fit and able to relieve tempted souls, to sympathize with tempted souls, to succor tempted souls, to counsel tempted souls, to pity tempted souls, to bear with tempted souls, and to comfort...

When God Refuses to Correct

Where God refuses to correct–there God resolves to destroy. There is no man so near God’s axe–so near the flames–so near hell–as he whom God will not so much as spend a rod upon. –Thomas Brooks

Plato’s Wish

by J. R. Miller You are absolutely beautiful, my Beloved; there is no flaw in You! –Song of Songs 4:7 Plato expressed a desire that the moral law might become a living personage, that men seeing it thus incarnate, might be charmed by its beauty. Plato’s...