Don't Stay in the Water

You don't drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.

Becoming Your Own

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

It Only Hurts When You Hit Bottom

Peradventure some sinner will say, "perceive nor feel any weight in myself, do I ever so many sins." To whom we answer that if a dog having ...

The Unforgiving End

Lust in final form spends everything

To purchase headstones.

All passions die in graveyards.

The Day the King Visited Chapel

When I was a freshman in college--I attended Wheaton College in Illinois--one day it was announced that Dr. V. Raymond Edman would preach. It was a great ...

William Carey's Epitaph

When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey, speak about Dr. Carey's Savior.

A Grub Glorified

Imagine a colony of grubs living on the bottom of a swamp. And every once in a while, one of these grubs is inclined to climb a leaf stem to the surface. ...

Highest Service Begins with Death

When our son Sandy died at the age of 21, a missionary who had overseen his work as a summer missionary in France wrote us a letter, and he said, "I ...

The Tragedy of Life

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

One Foot in the Air

Even in the best of health we should have death always before our eyes [so that] we will not expect to remain on this earth forever, but will have one ...