Optimism vs. Hope

Here’s one more great quote from J.I. Packer. This seems incredibly relevant… Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistling in the dark. Christian hope, by contrast, is faith looking ahead to the...

You Don’t Have to Listen to Them

If you weren’t raised in a Christian family, there’s a good chance that you have a defined, obvious time you remember, when you began to follow Jesus. If you were raised by Christian parents, the waters might be a little murkier. I’m pretty sure I got saved at 16. I...

A Psalmist’s Guide to Processing Evil

Friends, here’s another guest post from Tony DeFranco. Please take some time with this. It might even be a great morning devotion meditation, with Psalm 37 open in front of you, a pencil in your hands, and a few minutes to talk to God about it all. Enjoy…...

The Only Lamp for Our Feet

Note: Friends, normally, this is something I’d say on a Monday night, instead of posting it here. Though it lives on the world wide web, this blog is for the Young Adults of Calvary Philly, and at the moment, this seemed to be the best way to get it out to you guys....

Another Lesson from Isaiah

This is from Alec Motyer’s short meditation on Isaiah 7:18-8:8. It covers the same scripture as a previous post. …In its way the most obvious lesson to leave from Isaiah’s analysis of the political process is how concerned we should be to make our...