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This weekend, in church, we sang my favorite hymn, It is Well With My Soul, written in 1873 by Horatio G. Spafford. I decided to post the lyric here because, well, I like it. Enjoy.
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It [...]

My esteemed colleague Joanna has awarded me with the prestigious Blogger Reflection Award.
I remember the first time I heard of the Blogger Reflection Award, as though it were yesterday. Actually, more like the day after yesterday. I was sitting at my desk this morning, reading my usual blogs (see the sidebar on the right; note [...]

A Christian complains he cannot pray. ‘Oh, I am troubled with so many distracting thoughts, and never more than now!’ But has he put into your heart a desire to pray? Then he will hear the desires of his own Spirit in you… God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. These desires cry [...]

This past weekend, in Sunday school, we were studying the return of Israel after the Babylonian captivity, and the huge celebration they had in Ezra 6. One of the students, a young lady, asked how they celebrated birthdays back then. So…
There are two references to birthday celebrations in Scripture. The first is Pharoah’s, during the [...]

Read the Bible first.
It is important to read what God is saying in the morning before reading what bloggers or news reporters have to say.
And other advice on being a better blog reader here.

I was going to include this in the Random Thoughts post I just did, but I found this one so good I had to set it off to itself.
Melinda at Stand to Reason writes that It’s Not All About Us:
Most preaching in church these days is focused on personal application. That’s been the trend [...]

Steven Kreloff, guest blogging at Pyromaniacs, wonders Is “Messianic Judaism” a Good Idea?
Chez Kneel asked recently asked why the priests were allowed to eat the breast and thigh of the Peace Offering, and answers it today.
Peter Mead makes some very good points about sermon points (or teaching points) in Pointers for Points
(so point your [...]

Men must not be too curious in prying into the weaknesses of others. We should labour rather to see what they have that is for eternity, to incline our heart to love them, than into that weakness which the Spirit of God will in time consume, to estrange us…
Where most holiness is, there is most [...]

OK, if you use a newsreader like Google Reader to read the site, I apologize for the flooding of old posts this morning. I’m trying to get Technorati to recognize my recently-implemented tags.
Also, I recommend not visiting the site itself at the moment, as things are a bit slow until that’s done. I recommend trying [...]

As you may or may not have noticed, I’ve updated the look and feel of the site. I think this new theme is easier to read than the old one. I’ve also spent the past few days going through and cleaning up some old posts. I haven’t changed any content, but I have…

Updated broken links [...]