Delight out of Disaster

I once read about farmers in southern Alabama who were accustomed to planting one crop every year--cotton. They would plow as much ground as they could ...

Hopelessness Breeds Blessing

Our Lord begins where we would never begin, at the point of human destitution. The greatest blessing a man ever gets from God is the realization that, ...

When Lives Don't Change

What a deal there is of going to meetings and getting blessed, and then going away and living just the same, until sometimes we, who are constantly engaged ...

The Blessings of a Wife

I would not want to exchange my Kate for France nor for Venice to boot; to begin with:

(1) because God has given her to me and me to her; (2) because I ...

Little Is Much with God

Serving God with our little is the way to make it more; and we must never think that wasted with which God is honored or men are blest.

The Wrong Blessing?

Tell me if you think [this] a vain subtlety. I am beginning to feel that we need a preliminary act of submission not only towards possible future afflictions ...

The Gift of Marriage

I have been very happy in my marriage, thank God. I have a faithful wife, according to Solomon: "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her" ...

God's Gift of a Pious Wife

It is no small gift from God to find a wife who is pious and easy to get along with.

A Blessing to Christ

Blessed may you be, my Lord, my God, and my Love most beloved of my soul: O you who are one God in three Persons.

Blessed may you be, my Lord Jesus Christ. ...

Purposeful Blessings

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.