I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they were about him? – that the entire song was about him?

Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which God has given us against our greatest enemy. If we neglect to make...

Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through...

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to...

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

How can Sophie hate Josh tonight when Friday morning she loved him?’ I ask. What I mean is How can I have had such strong feelings for Ethan when now I don’t know what I...

My fear is that he’ll forget me,” she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. “I’d rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the...

For true conversion doth not consist in putting away great and outward sins only, but in descending deeply into your own self, searching into the inmost recesses of the heart, the secrets and closets, all...