A strange plant needs more care than a native of the soil. Worldly desires, like a weed, breed of their own accord, but spiritual desires need a great deal of cultivating. —Thomas Manton Adapted from The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, 6:432.
Set a strong guard about your outward senses These are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. Take heed what you import at these; vain discourse seldom passes without leaving some tincture upon the heart.… And for your eye, let it not wander; wanton […]
Let grace have the ordering of your tongues, and of your hands; the moulding of your whole conversation. Let not humility appear in some actions, and pride in others; holy seriousness in some companies, and vain frothiness in others. Suffer not the fountain of corruption to […]
I recently came across a statement in a book that I am reading by J. C. Ryle that gripped my heart. Ryle noted–mind you, years before the turn of the 19th century–that he lived “in an age of reading.” What most forcefully commanded my attention was […]
Are we disciples of Christ in mind? Do our thoughts demonstrate our commitment to Christ? We are called to be ‘disciples’—disciplined students and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. But the measure of discipline displayed in body is not the truest measure of discipline. There is […]