Spurgeon
Daily Pension
One of the quickest joy-suckers is worrying about tomorrow. Tomorrow has so many unanswered questions, but why fear them? Today is one day, and there is grace enough. No more, no less.
As I read this today I chuckled at the implications for me personally. “A thirst which we may suffer in [...]
Preaching to Myself
I have had a really difficult time managing myself, home, and family in the last several weeks. The pressure of the holidays hasn’t helped, and I have a new enemy that I have never before encountered, which is anger and bitterness towards women who say they never struggle with this in pregnancy. I [...]
The King of Winter
It’s December 1st! Today’s devotion by Spurgeon is one of my favorites, and I wanted to share it with you here. I am not going through a terrible wintry trial, per se, because my morning-sickness could be much worse. I could be in the hospital away from my family. I could [...]
Cannot faith invent, too?
“And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.” — Mark 2:4
Faith is full of inventions. The house was full, a crowd blocked up [...]
Bearing the Cross
an excerpt from today’s “Morning and Evening” by Spurgeon:
He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer.
But let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon’s, it [...]