Set a Watch Before My Mouth: What the Bible Says About Taming the Tongue
Anybody who has spent time around horses knows the strange arithmetic of a bridle. You have got a twelve-hundred-pound animal that could drag a grown[…]
Not Forsaking the Assembling: What Hebrews 10:25 Says to the Tired Believer
Come September, you can stand at the edge of a field around dusk and watch the geese form up. They do not fly in a[…]
Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters: Sowing for a Harvest You May Never See
Picture a merchant on the dock of a port during Bible times, watching a year’s worth of grain disappear into the hold of a ship[…]
The Race Is Not to the Swift: What Ecclesiastes 9:11 Says About Time, Chance, and Your Best-Laid Plans
He was the fastest boy in the region, and everybody in the bleachers knew it. Four years of five o’clock mornings, a coach who knew[…]
The Bible Is Still the Answer: Why God’s Word Outlasts Every Cultural Crisis
Somewhere out in every county there is an iron rod driven into the ground, and almost nobody knows where it is. Surveyors call it a[…]
Answered in the Joy of His Heart: What Ecclesiastes 5:20 Says About a Lifetime of Loss
There was a season when the table needed the extra leaf. Chairs got dragged in from the bedroom and off the porch, somebody was always[…]
Labor Not in Vain: Noah Webster’s Conversion at 49 and the Harvest He Never Saw
Goshen, New York, winter of 1782. The American army was camped along the Hudson, the war was not finished, and in a two-room brick schoolhouse[…]
Bring Me Your Best Arguments: How Timothy Dwight Answered Yale’s Skeptics and God Sent Revival
In the autumn of 1795, the new president of Yale College climbed the chapel steps for the first time and looked out over a student[…]
Pray Until the Fire Falls: James McGready and the Covenant That Ignited a Great Awakening
It was the third Sunday of June 1800, and the communion weekend at the Red River Meeting House was over. The little log church on[…]
A Time to Fight: What Peter Muhlenberg’s Farewell Sermon Teaches Us About Obedience
It was Sunday morning, January 21, 1776, and the pews of a small Lutheran church in Woodstock, Virginia, were full. A cold wind rattled the[…]