Wretched Man That I Am!
Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Mar

3

Marriage Retreat, The Cost of Forgiveness and the Puritan Reading Challenge

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My wife and I were blessed enough to abandon our children for a couple days last weekend and attend our church’s Young Couples Retreat at Horn Creek Ranch outside of Westcliffe, Colorado.
The speaker, Mark Bates, was fantastic and it was a very, very, very good weekend. Of all the ‘couple-y’ things he spoke on, [...]

Feb

15

The Mystery of Providence-Chapter 4

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Our Employment
It has not only an eye upon your well-being in the world to come, but upon your well-being in this world also, and that very much depends upon the station and vocation to which it calls you.
Now the Providence of God with respect to our civil callings may be displayed very takingly in the [...]

Feb

15

The Mystery of Providence-Chapter 3

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The Work of Conversion
This, O this, is the most excellent benefit you ever received from its hand. You are more indebted to it for this, than for all your other mercies. p. 60.
It is certainly the sweetest history that ever they repeated; they love to think and talk of it. The places where, [...]