Return, O Wanderer, Return!
Are there things in one's spiritual life, that you always seem to be going to sort out, attend to, be obedient under God to, "tomorrow"? Yet, tomorrow, always remains tomorrow? We are told in Scripture to redeem the time well, and that includes not putting off to tomorrow what we can or should do today. Because, even if bursting full of health and vitality today, no one in even that condition can grantee they will have a tomorrow. No one has any certainty that when we go to sleep tonight, we will wake up in the same bed tomorrow morning to go about our day and be pilgrims on earth. Oliver Cromwell is a somewhat intriguing and fascinating character in history. Folk s

A Faithful Creator Will Uphold His creation
The last few days I have been reading John  Bunyan's small treatise,  "Seasonable Counsel or Advice to sufferers," I shall likely finish it to day or tomorrow.  If you are under any afflictions I would recommend it to you, and at just over a hundred pages, easily readable for most folk.  Those of you who know me  a little will know why this excerpt from it spoke to my heart, but it is very true, I bear witness to it being so in my own trials and sufferings. A Creator! A Creator can not only support a dying cause, but also fainting spirits. For as he fainteth not, nor is weary, so “he giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no

Forgive Them Father, they Know Not What They do
I had planned for a blog post tonite on the doctrine of election, but after a bolt out of the blue tonite, I have decided to post this instead. I have long felt perplexed, confusion, even anger, at those Professors of Christ who when I was already dealing with more than enough for anyone to cope with at one time, continued to pile me up in additional afflictions so that at times, I have felt I knew not how to stand. Being sick unto death would be enough to cope with for most people, to die alone, estrange from and abandoned by the church you once loved, and forsaken of humanity in such dreadful illness is another matter entirely, and a cross of great magnitude. Yet for all those wh

William Gouge-The Arch-Puritan
William Gouge (1575-1653), a renowned divine of his time was endowed with great powers of mind with which he not only mastered his studies but devoured Scripture. Exact and conscientious in all his ways, he became known as the arch-puritan. He became minister of Blackfriars, London, where his gifts as a preacher drew large congregations. Though many invitations to other spheres came his way, he refused them all. He used to say: It is my highest ambition to go from Blackfriars to Heaven. –which he did. At one time he was cast into prison for nine weeks for republishing a book on "The Calling of the Jews", but in 1643, he was nominated

O Come My Soul, Retire a While
Come, O my soul, retire a while, Withdraw your thoughts from things below; Beneath the Savior's blissful smile, A heaven on earth, you then shall know. Communion with your God, how sweet! To feel his presence—how divine! Oh! make me for this blessing meet; My Savior, make me ever thine. While thousands seek their joy on earth, Where thorns, in rich profusion, grow; I long for joys of heavenly birth, Which Jesus only can bestow. Amid the tangled cares of life, Amid the sorrows which abound, Amid the errors, sins, and strife, Which thickly cover nature's ground; I would w