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08/28/2025 – Sing, O Barren.” / Isaiah 54:1/ Evening Devotion / Devotion 3 of 4


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“Sing, O barren.”Isaiah 54:1

Though we have brought forth some fruit unto Christ, and have a joyful hope that we are “plants of his own right hand planting,” yet there …

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08/27/2025 – Whilst we are inmates or sojourners in the body,… “for we ‘walk by faith, not by sight —‘ (2 Corinthians 5:7)


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My own Fireworks Display

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

“I had a friend who had a dramatic experience coming to the Lord, so I thought that this is how it was for every …

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08/15/2025 – “The very act of prayer is a blessing.”/ “True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.”/ “True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.” Charles Spurgeon


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Soli Deo Gloria!

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08/11/2025: “If you can’t see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you’ve never felt thunder and lightning you’ll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you’ll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.”  John Piper


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John Piper biography:

https://www.desiringgod.org/about/teachers/john-piper

Soli Deo Gloria!

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08/08/2025 – “A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.” St. Dominic (compliments of “ThePourOver” this morning – thepourover.org)


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08/05/2025 – “A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.” Charles Spurgeon


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08/03/2025 – “When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let got of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God’s love within me and around me.” Henri Nouwen (biography attached)


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https://klcpublishing.substack.com/p/henri-nouwen-a-legacy-of-spiritual

Soli Deo Gloria!

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07/31/2025 – “Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.” Joni Eareckson Tada (biography attached)


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Joni’s biography:

https://joniandfriends.org/news/joni-eareckson-tada-celebrates-her-75th-birthday-after-nearly-60-years-of-quadriplegia

Soli Deo Gloria!

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07/29/2025 – “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.” Fyodor Dostoevsky / “Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:10


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Soli Deo Gloria!

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07/28/2025 – “An idea becomes close to you only when you are aware of it in your soul, when in reading about it seems to you that it has already occurred to you, that you know it and are simply recalling it. That’s how it was when I read the Gospels. In the Gospels I discovered a new world: I had not supposed that there was such a depth of thought in them. Yet it all seemed so familiar; it seemed that I had known it all long ago, that I had only forgotten it.” (Tolstoy, as recorded in Bulgakov’s Diary, 18 April 1910)


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I remember as a young boy, my mother picking up my father picking up my father from his daily 50 mile train commute on the Chicago Loop. I recall …

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