I suppose that if the term “writer’s block” applies to journal keeping, then that was my problem. I wanted to write about something that would edify my soul. On that day, however, no particular subject emerged from my mental fog. …
Before he retired each night, [eighteenth-century evangelist George Whitefield] opened his journal and probed his soul with questions such as these he’d placed in the flyleaf: Have I, 1. Been fervent in prayer? 2. After or before every deliberate conversation …
Every now and then my heart is so broken, or my grief so deep, or my burden so heavy that I drop down in my desk chair, open the Bible, put my head in my hands and cry out, “O …
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On most mornings I turn to the Scriptures as much out of a good, lifelong habit as anything else. On some mornings I approach God’s Word with a more keen sense of purpose. And sometimes I come with a real desire to meet God. But on many occasions—often outside my daily routine of Bible intake—I turn to the Word of God out of…