Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding…

  • One More on the Poor in Spirit…

    This poverty of spirit is a fruit that grows on no merely natural tree. It is a spiritual grace wrought by the Holy Spirit in those whom He renews. By nature we are well pleased with ourselves, and mad enough to think that we deserve something good at the hands of God. Let men but Read more

  • More on the Poor in Spirit

    It is to come off from all confidence in our own righteousness and strength, that we may depend only upon the merit of Christ for our justification, and the spirit and grace of Christ for our sanctification. That broken and contrite spirit with which the publican cried for mercy to a poor sinner, is that poverty of Read more

  • Poor in Spirit

    “Blessed are the poor in spirit, – Matthew 5:3 (CSB) What is meant by being `poor in spirit’. It means a complete absence of pride, a complete absence of self-assurance and of self-reliance. It means a consciousness that we are nothing in the presence of God. It is nothing, then, that we can produce; it is nothing Read more

  • Matthew Henry Monday

    From his Method for Prayer… Read more

  • Pride, Ignorance, and Superstition

    But though experience testifies that a seed of religion is divinely sown in all, scarcely one in a hundred is found who cherishes it in his heart, and not one in whom it grows to maturity so far is it from yielding fruit in its season. Moreover, while some lose themselves in superstitious observances, and others, Read more