Endurance: From Beginning to End

Endurance: From Beginning to End

The race really does go to the tortoise and not the hare.  It is perseverance that ultimately will win the prize, not knowledge, not talent, and not connections.  It is that undying tenacity that sets itself on the end, that finishes the race, that completes...
Faster

Faster

We are so tragically, malignantly impatient.  Everything is moving faster and faster in our lives.  We have instant access to the  internet right on the phones in our pockets.  We do business “at the speed of light.”  Speed and...
Meaning It, Believing It, and Living It

Meaning It, Believing It, and Living It

It is one of the great ironies of our day that Christians can pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,” and not actually mean anything by it. Indeed, it is a stunning paradox that we can live as if such a prayer could not be answered. Even...
Resounding Nehemiads

Resounding Nehemiads

Jeremiad. Definition: “an elaborate and prolonged lamentation; a cry of woe; and expression of righteous indignation.” Nehemiad. Definition: “an elaborate and prolonged humiliation; a cry of grief; an expression of righteous repentance.” Well...
Self-Examination As a Check Against Idolatry

Self-Examination As a Check Against Idolatry

The years leading up to the Scottish Disruption and those immediately afterward produced some of the most remarkable servants of God in the history of the church.  Andrew Alexander Bonar (1810-1892) was a member of that galaxy of brilliant, Reformed Scots...