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On the surface, this world seems promising. But as wonderful as it is, it can't compare with knowing Christ, and the living water he supplies that quenches any and every thirst.
Recent Entries
God? Who Needs Him?May 31, 2013
Self-sufficient humanism. Paul saw it coming – “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Imago Dei
September 12, 2012
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Why Can't I Pray?
August 18, 2012
The bible gives us several reasons, but according to Jeremy Taylor, a deceitful heart is at the root of prayerlessness.
It's Not Rocket Science
July 23, 2012
To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
Theological Steak
April 10, 2012
These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
February 11, 2012
What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
What Really Matters
July 11, 2009
Now I saw in my dream, that thus they sat talking together until supper was ready. So when they had made ready they sat down.....and all their talk at the table was about the Lord of the Hill.
John Bunyan PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Only a person who has tasted of the heavenly fruit, and drunk the living water would understand making singleminded conversation that focuses on the eternal, and treats the temporal as inconsequential.
Malcolm Muggeridge spent half of his life drowning in earthly pleasures. And when he discovered the glory of Christ, there was no turning back.
I may, I suppose, regard myself or pass for being a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets - that's fame.
I can fairly easily earn enough to qualify for admission to the higher slopes of the Internal Revenue. - that's success.
Furnished with enough money and a little fame even the elderly, if they care to, may partake of trendy diversions - that's pleasure.
It might happen once in a while that something I said or wrote was sufficiently heeded for me to persuade myself that it represented a serious impact on our time - that's fulfillment.
Yet I say to you, and I beg you to believe me - multiply these triumphs by a million, add them all together, and they are nothing - less than nothing, a positive impediment - measured against one draught of that living water Christ offers to the spritually thirsty irrespective of who or what they are.
John Bunyan PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
Only a person who has tasted of the heavenly fruit, and drunk the living water would understand making singleminded conversation that focuses on the eternal, and treats the temporal as inconsequential.
Malcolm Muggeridge spent half of his life drowning in earthly pleasures. And when he discovered the glory of Christ, there was no turning back.
I may, I suppose, regard myself or pass for being a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets - that's fame.
I can fairly easily earn enough to qualify for admission to the higher slopes of the Internal Revenue. - that's success.
Furnished with enough money and a little fame even the elderly, if they care to, may partake of trendy diversions - that's pleasure.
It might happen once in a while that something I said or wrote was sufficiently heeded for me to persuade myself that it represented a serious impact on our time - that's fulfillment.
Yet I say to you, and I beg you to believe me - multiply these triumphs by a million, add them all together, and they are nothing - less than nothing, a positive impediment - measured against one draught of that living water Christ offers to the spritually thirsty irrespective of who or what they are.
