Category Archives: Glory!

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. -Gandalf to … Continue reading →

All my heart this night rejoices As I hear / Far and near / Sweetest angel voices. “Christ is born,” their choirs are singing Till the air / Everywhere / Now with joy is ringing. I admit it, Christmas-time is … Continue reading →

This never happens when I’m at the mall. A church we attended back in the 1990s would hire an orchestra some Christmas’s, and I remember noticing one of the cello players reading a paperback during the sermon. I note this … Continue reading →

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will. -Proverbs 21:1 In his sermon this morning, our pastor noted that Mary responded to the Lord calling to her (John … Continue reading →

For all the saints, who from their labours rest, / Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, / Thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blessed. / Alleluia, Alleluia! Another aunt died recently. Dad had nine siblings, mom had eight, … Continue reading →

They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. -Judges 5:20 Comments Matthew Henry: Those whom God is an enemy to the whole creation is at war with.

A recent lewrockwell.com blog post notes that people cherish coronations. I’m reminded of being in London ten years ago. Before we entered the dark room in the Tower of London to see the crown jewels, they played a video of … Continue reading →

In pondering John 7 recently, our pastor mentioned God’s work in the life of Nicodemus. The Pharisees were blind guides who could not see the living Word right in front of their eyes. They could not “see” their own Creator … Continue reading →

Behind that there was something else at work, beyond any design of the Ring-maker. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you … Continue reading →

The economy is tanking, and I believe we’ve seen but the tip of the iceberg. Wickedness seems ascendant in our land. However, you can go out on any clear night and look up. And you really need to get outside … Continue reading →

When I attempted, a few minutes ago, to describe our spiritual longings, I was omitting one of their most curious characteristics. We usually notice it just as the moment of vision dies away, as the music ends or as the … Continue reading →

Wow. I don’t remember our high school choir sounding quite like this. Quite a story, too.

How can I tell of the rest of creation, with all its beauty and utility, which the divine goodness has given to man to please his eye and serve his purposes, condemned though he is, and hurled into these labors … Continue reading →

Back in the early 90s heyday of Windows 3.x, someone created a funny little program called Tiny Elvis. From time to time, a little Elvis Presley figure would arouse from slumber at the bottom of your desktop and say things … Continue reading →

My sister-in-law went to be with the Lord yesterday morning. In any Christian home where death comes, it is supremely painful to see the suffering and the wailing, and yet also a soul-expanding joy to see compassion, hearts filled with … Continue reading →

If our chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, then shouldn’t that be modeled in our prayers? In group intercession times, I’m struck by how prayer requests are almost always for individual, temporal concerns. There’s nothing wrong … Continue reading →

Revelation is designed not only to assure us of God’s final purposes, but also to increase our longing for him and the realization of his purpose. The sureness of that final bliss comforts the saints during times of temptation and … Continue reading →

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in … Continue reading →