For about two years now, I have added hymn reading/singing to my personal devotional time with the Lord. I have gone through several hymnals, noting especially less familiar or unknown hymn texts. I am currently going through Hymns to the Living God, produced by Religious Affections Ministries, and read/sang through this hymn this morning that encouraged my own heart. It is a text by Julia Cady Cory, who died in 1963. May it encourage and strengthen your own heart today, in p

A.W. Tozer wrote in the preface of his outstanding book, The Pursuit of God (p8), "It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom [the church], to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table." What he was getting at was that the preaching of the Word of God was not accomplishing what it was supposed to, nor yielding the kind of Christian it should. Tozer wrote those words in 1948. Seventy years ago! If that was the case then, it could su