Eyes to see and ears to hear.
Jesus used this terminology often. (Mat 11.15; 13.9, 43; Mark 4.9, 23; 7.16; Luke 8.8; 14.35.) When he did so, he...
False ideas
False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a...
Jargon, not argument.
Screwtape to Wormwood: Your man has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible...
The nature of unbelief.
I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently I assumed that it had none, and was able...
Folly Like Fine Wine
Joash was one of those kings who began well and ended poorly. He served God for most of his days, but turned away...
Self-pity.
Feeling sorry for ourselves feels so good. That’s why we love it. But like the boy who loved to wet his pants because...
Self-pity
A man may quite reasonably regard himself as a jolly good fellow. He may at the same time quite consistently regard...
Sin proceeds in one direction, but defilement is a...
C.S. Lewis said that “good and evil both increase at compound interest.”* He did not attach that insight...
Self-willed is weak-willed
Have you ever wondered why we call someone who is self-willed “strong-willed”? Shouldn’t it be the...
Pride, Self, and Hell
Pride is the bond between Satan and sinners. It is the in by which he so easily manipulates us. (Lk 23.12.) Pride is...
About the proprietor
Christian, husband, father, pastor, grandfather (How'd that happen?), adjunct professor, sometime composer, former lawyer, former military, former Floridian turned Idahoan, former basketballer turned golfer—that about sums it up. —Alan Burrow
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