William Cowper is one of those saints who doesn’t fit into a tidy box. His friend, John Newton, understood this but was still perplexed by the mans case. He didn’t understand how someone so filled with grace, and whose salvation… Continue Reading
One of the pieces I’d like you to read this month in our Year with Newton is on the Mystery of “God Moves in Mysterious Ways”. In my research for this I read through John Piper’s biography of William Cowper… Continue Reading
His eyes can barely stay open. A graven look overwhelms his thin face. You can tell that this young man hasn’t eaten for days. He is starving to death. You, being the good chap you are, offer this dying man… Continue Reading
The cruel hands of depression tend to choke out every color except black and white. We desperately want help and so we fly from fix to fix—hoping that one thing will cure it all. When they fail we discard them… Continue Reading