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#10 in the top ten most accessed posts on this blog is a post Long hair and feminity . A new article on www.fpchurch.org.uk Long hair for wo...

A quick google shows me that this is not an original observation but here goes anyway. Jim Elliot had a great quote: He is no fool, wh...

A valuable little blog called  Footsteps  is establishing an excellent resource to "support young people who respect the Bible and wa...

Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow. The life and vigour of our spiritual lives consis...

Sin "will take away a man’s usefulness in his generation. His works, his endeavours, his labours, seldom receive blessing from God. If ...

even in labouring for these other things, ye must do it in a godly manner. In your love to wife, husband, children, and others relations, y...

Clothing (as opposed to insufficient covering) was first provided by God. “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of ski...

"There are Two Callings to be minded by All Christians. Every Christian hath a General Calling, Which is to Serve the Lord Jesus Christ...

1. Would they do more than others? then they must deny themselves more than others 2. Would they deny themselves more than others? then they...

1. The believer will walk by this principle: That whatsoever is transacted by men on earth, is eyed by the Lord in heaven 2. That after all ...

1. He does much good, and makes but little noise 2. He brings up the bottom of his life to the top of his light 3. He prefers the duty he ow...

1. Because more is done for him than for others 2. Because he is more nearly related to God than others 3. Because he professes more than ot...

Apparently it was Aristotle who coined the phrase 'the art of living well'. He said that 'those who educate children well are mo...

Earlier this month the death of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent was mourned. In his personal life he was promiscuous, bisexual, a dr...

Professor of French literature at the University of Paris VIII, Pierre Bayard's essay on "How to discuss books that one hasn't ...

We concluded a previous post on the disease of consumerism, by acknowledging that we get nowhere until we realise that consumerism is a sin,...

A recent book argues that consumerism is making us ill. "The citizens of selfish capitalist countries are twice as likely to suffer fro...

Christopher Love has some helpful advice on this published at http://www.apuritansmind.com/Christopher%20Love/ChristopherLoveImmoderateJoy.h...

The world is constantly seeking to make the Church more in conformity with itself - not to be so strict. Yet this is also a question that ha...

The best and surest way to please God, and gain a cheerful quiet heart in the way to heaven is, to walk with God in uprightness, (through fa...