Sometimes it’s the little things, the microscopic things, that cause the most pain and misery. One of my favorite authors, JC Ryle, in his book “Thoughts For Young Men” said, “A boy may bend an oak when it is a sapling- a hundred men cannot root it up, when it is a full grown tree.” The…
Harry Emerson Fosdick once said, “No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” No one likes to hear that word, that…
David Platt once said, “The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God,…