Category: Godliness (in general)

  • Christ Alone

    Our pastor is preaching through Galatians.  Last Sunday, he preached through Gal. 3:1-5: O foolish Galatians!  Who has bewitched you?  It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.  Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?  Are…

  • Book Review: Girls Gone Wise

    Girls Gone Wise (In a World Gone Wild) by Mary Kassian Moody Publishers Upon reading the title of Mary Kassian’s new book Girls Gone Wise (In a World Gone Wild), my first thought was of the Joe Francis franchise, Girls Gone Wild. Perhaps you are familiar with the late night commercials: barely legal girls baring…

  • Count the Cost

    Katie is a young woman who is mother to 14 children in Uganda. This is an excerpt of her most recent blog update: A few days ago an American woman who had spent about three days of her life in a third world country looked at me and said, “I would SO love to do…

  • Thinking about Sunday mornings

    I did something that I have never done before this Christmas: I read Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I enjoyed it very much and had fun reading it aloud to my children.  They were especially interested that so much of the dialogue in the latest animated film (starring Jim Carey) is word-for-word from the book. There…

  • Our Weapons

    Elizabeth Eliot: 2 Corinthians 5:15 says, “and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.” 2 Corinthians 6:6-7 say, “by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with…