In this week's article,Abundant Love, the late Dr. R.C. Sproul unpacks what Jonathan Edwards meant when he wrote about the "sweet complacency" he found in God. Not complacency by modern definition, but the "fact or state of being pleased with a thing or person; tranquil pleasure or satisfaction in something or someone." While God bestows His love of benevolence and benefic...

Where does your confidence lie? In this week's article,A Time for Confidence,Dr. Stephen J. Nichols, president of Reformation Bible College and chief academic officer and a teaching fellow for Ligonier Ministries, reminds us that the Apostle Paul was extremely intelligent, ambitious, and accomplished, yet he put no confidencein the flesh, counting anythinghe had gained as ...

"If God has ordained something difficult for your life, you can trust Him to walk with you through it in love and faithfulness." In today's article,All This Wasted Worry, author, speaker, and pastor's wife, Glenna Marshall, encourages us to put off all our wasted worry and remember that our heavenly Father, sparing not his only Son to save us, has already pr...

In this week's article,About Those Sparrows, written by Mike Leake at Borrowed Light, we ponder that although sparrows aren't worth much to us, they aren't forgottenby God. Not one falls from the sky apart from His sovereign will and notice. And if His eye is upon us just as it is upon the sparrow, we have His delight. What a comfort! ...

In this week's article,The Difficult Habit of Quiet,Desiring God staff writer, Marshall Segal, questions, "How often do we choose activity over quietness, distraction over meditation, 'productivity' over prayer?" Though it may seem counter productive to "be still", our God, who works in mysterious ways, reveals that in quietness and trust we will find the strength...

In this week's article,Resolved to Read the Word, Nick Muyres helps us to think of daily bible reading as more than just a box to check off our to do list. It is the soul sustaining food and light that our awesome and majestic God has graciously given to us to sustain our hearts and minds as we travel through this world of darkness. It girds our loins in the battle for our...

In this week's article,The Squiggly Line of God's Providence, Tim Challies helps us see that God's purposes are rarely linear or one dimensional, but squiggly, complex, and mysterious, causing our "deepest grief to flow into a million goods and our greatest triumph to be downstream of a thousand sorrows." ...

In this week's article,What We Long to Hear,Meredith Lee Myers, assistant web editor for Ligonier Ministries, shares that in a world of continual change, what a comfort to know that biblical doctrine has no need for change; it was breathed out by an unchanging and eternal God, who is not silent and has revealed Himself and what it means to know Him and be known. ...

In this week's article,Somebody Knows the Trouble I've Seen,Pastor Tim Shorey teaches that there is no comfort in comparing notes about our troubles, or in focusing on the people and problems creating our sorrow. True comfort comes when we look to Christ, who has come to comfort our sorrows by sharing and bearing them....

In today's article,Someone Is Listening to Your Suffering,Rev. Scott Hubbard reminds us that God can deliver us from the sorrows of this world that wrap around us like chains, but even more importantly he can deliver us from dishonoring him in our sorrows. The sounds of suffering from Paul and Silas in the darkness of the Philippian jail were not what you...