Lately I’ve been heavily burdened for loved ones who have made and are making some really bad choices. They’ve been prayed for, encouraged, supported and counseled, but continue to go down the wrong road. As I was praying about this situation, I thought about a television show I like to watch. Having a competitive nature, I enjoy the…
“This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.” — Lam 3:21 Memory is frequently the bond slave of despondency. Dispairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and dilate upon every gloomy feature in the present; thus memory, clothed in sackcloth, presents to the mind a cup of mingled gall…
“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.” — Gal 5:17 In every believer’s heart there is a constant struggle between the old nature and the new. The old nature is very active, and loses no opportunity of plying all the weapons of its deadly armoury against newborn grace; while…
Postscript On Forgiveness “‘If you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions’” (Matthew 6:14–15). Believers should forgive others because they have received forgiveness from God themselves (cf. Eph. 1:17). We can’t claim to know God’s parental…