For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.Psalm 118:24 ESV This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it....
Probably the best known of Watts’ hymns is “Joy to the World,” although Watts never set it to music. Decades later Lowell Mason felt inspired to do so and upon publication in 1848, the song soon became a beloved Christmas carol. Some insist this hymn has no place in the carol-catego...
For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5 (ESV) Sometimes our joy comes just in knowing that challenges don’t last forever and eventually good things will come along as well. ...
This classical conversation took place on a certain Wednesday morning in that golden June which the picnic ushered in. And such a hurrying and scampering, and mending and making of dresses, such a trimming of summer hats and packing of trunks and valises, as there was the rest of that week...
Every Friday morning my father would collect my previous week's books and take them back to the library. What would I have I could hardly bear the waiting for him to come home. In the evening when he returned from work, he would come done without that library when I was into my ...
we pray that one of your goals is to be a consistent student of God’s Word. Jim Cymbala wrote the following in his bookFresh Wind, Fresh Fire,“Spiritual power is always linked with communion with God.” There is no question that a primary facet of communion with God comes from commun...
We must never forget that when it comes to spiritual health, we are much like one trying to ascend the down escalator – standing still will in fact find us going backward. And even apart from the Fall – we must remember that as Christ is the Son (sun) – we are but moons...
In his book Talking to Ducks, James A. Kitchens explains there are two major types of joy: internal joy and external joy. Internal joy comes from within, but external joy comes and goes with whatever is happening in our environment. It is extrinsic because it arises from the outside. When...
Yes, my mom had a unique job, but I wasn’t this crazy person standing out in my school because of that, or was in a situation where my life was so different from everyone else. There were certain unique things, but my mom woke us up for school in the morning. We would sit down...
Lew capped this come-hither heartbreaker with an incendiary rendition of ‘Little White Dove’ that stopped me dead in my tracks – I haven’t seen her feel a tune that deeply in a red hot minute (’I Never’ comes to mind…), and when she drops her guitar (or keys) and focuses ...