Are you a stranger to this world or a friend to this world? (image by pixabay.com)

A Stranger’s Indifference: Cultivating a lack of interest in this world

In “The Valley of Vision,” under the prayer entitled “Journeying On,” the prayer begins: “Lord of the cloud and fire, I am a stranger, with a stranger’s indifference; My hands hold a pilgrim’s staff, My march is Zionward, My eyes are toward the coming of the Lord, My heart is in thy hands without reserve…” Read more about A Stranger’s Indifference: Cultivating a lack of interest in this world[…]

Sorrowful yet always rejoicing... (image courtesy of pixabay.com)

Joy, Sorrow, the Cross, and Victory

I’ve said often that “The Valley of Vision,” besides the Bible, is by far the most influential book in my life thus up to this point in my life. Its devotional content is phenomenal, sound, and biblical at its core. It is a book based on some of the best prayers and devotions of some Read more about Joy, Sorrow, the Cross, and Victory[…]

Both the guilt and eternality of hell as well as the glory and eternality of heaven are seen at the cross of Christ (images courtesy of pixabay.com),

Reflections on the Theological Justification of the Eternality of Hell and the Hideousness of Sin

In The Valley of Vision (this is by far my favorite devotional book which is a collection of Puritan prayers and thoughts) I was reading this particular section today (entitled “The Precious Blood” pg. 74-75): “Show me the enormity of my guilt by the crown of thorns, the pierced hands and feet, the bruised body, Read more about Reflections on the Theological Justification of the Eternality of Hell and the Hideousness of Sin[…]