Tips for Light Sleepers

Some of you know that I’m a light sleeper—and that’s an understatement.
If you’re not a light sleeper, you have no idea how blessed you are. Whenever I go to church retreats, I’m always calculating how I could be the first to sleep, because if I go in to the cabins after a snorer is already [...]

JC Ryle on Assurance: Do Not Linger

For an extended period of my life, I struggled with the assurance of my salvation. Something I read recently shed much light on the source of my doubts. It was a chapter in JC Ryle’s book Holiness titled “Lot: The Beacon.”
In Genesis 19:16, it is recorded that “Lot lingered.” Lot is called a beacon of [...]

Accountability of Blogging

Yesterday, during the sermon discussion time after Sunday service, Pat mentioned this piece by Rick Holland on some of the dangers of blogging and reading blogs. I took a look at it, and he offers some good insights into the whole phenomenon. At one point, he writes:
First, most blogs are masquerades. They make people look [...]