Love of the World

Keep your eyes right — and you may keep your heart right.

Posted by on October 17, 2022 at 10:00 am

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity Ps 119:37 Dear friends, do not gaze upon any sin . . .  for looking breeds longing,  and longing begets lusting,  and lusting brings sinning! Keep your eyes right — and you may keep your heart right. If that first woman had not looked upon the forbidden tree and seen “that the tree was good for food, and that […]

Who cares for pebbles — when jewels glitter before him?

Posted by on October 17, 2022 at 9:54 am

Who cares for pebbles — when jewels glitter before him? (Charles Spurgeon, “Flowers from a Puritan’s Garden” 1883) “To rule a kingdom, is a nobler matter than to play with marbles.” What, then, is the folly of the worldling’s choice, when he prefers to be contending among men for earthly toys — instead of seeking […]

Some beloved idol?

Posted by on June 24, 2019 at 12:39 am

Some beloved idol?J.C.Philpot“Because the whole land is filled with idols, and thepeople are madly in love with them.” Jeremiah 50:38 Have we not all in our various ways,set up some beloved idol . . .something which engaged our affections,something which occupied our thoughts,something to which we devoted all the energies of our minds,something for which […]