Legalism Hunter and Her Hit List

by | Jun 27, 2011 | Devotional

Facebook post by Stacy McDonald: An Expose’ of the Legalistic Anti-Legalist: While *true* legalism is a real issue, these days, anyone with any sort of convictions may be accused of legalism. How can a “legalism hunter” actually be a true legalist in disguise and how...

Leonard Ravenhill on Prayer

by | Jun 5, 2011 | Devotional

Prayer is another way of telling God that we have all confidence in Him but no confidence in our own native powers. Strong men (self-strong) neglect prayer, or sometimes slight or ignore it, and therefore show their self esteem and their near-independence of divine...

Bearing the Sting by A. B. Simpson

by | Jun 5, 2011 | Devotional

Bearing the Sting “He opened not his mouth” (Isa. 53:7). How much grace it requires to bear a misunderstanding rightly, and to receive an unkind judgment in holy sweetness! Nothing tests the Christian character more than to have some evil thing said about...

Perspective in Trials

by | Apr 27, 2011 | Devotional

Taken from The World From Our Window by Ken Fields …Perspective is often God’s gift to his children when they are called to enter the valley of the shadow of death. In other words, the trials God ordains for us are rarely as bad as we initially make them...

“Peace” About It

by | Apr 17, 2011 | Devotional

Taken from OPC.org Question: I frequently hear people praying about something until they had “peace about it” and also “God opens and closes doors.” Are these statements biblically incorrect? Answer: Your question indicates that you are not...