“So, it is a suspicious, sad situation,” Squigle the squirrel said. Bumblediah Nimbly lowered his hammer. “If I have told you once, I...

One night, a scene snuck up on me. I imagined a boy running in a marvelous wood all alone. He was twelve (of course, because I was...

Introduction A few months ago, I read two confessions of faith for the first time. For years, I have desired a confession of faith but...

​ What is the gospel? How can we be made right with God? The most important thing to know in this life is the answer to those questions....

A thrill of triumph swelled through me as I slipped through the barbed wire fence. At last, back in familiar territory .  Early that...

Bumblediah Nimbly loved to build. Every morning he sat up in his stump house, his mind buzzing with ideas. He stood one and a half feet...

" Above all shadows rides the Sun" -Samwise Gamgee Some stories are like old friends. You read them over and over again throughout the...

First sentences? First sentences are sometimes the most exciting and delicious part of a book. You pick up a story all bound up in a...

Introduction This might be the last Holiness post I do, but I hope this one will be as much a comfort to you as it has been to me. A...

Do you love to run? I do. A commonplace journal isn’t just a place to record quotes that convey deep meaningful messages, but also those...

Jack Zulu and the Waylander's Key is one of those stories that feel like they’re written just for me. As you might already know,...

Everything is a different sort of book from what I usually read. I don't think it would be exaggerating to say I never read contemporary....

When the word "doctrine" is mentioned it’s easy to envision dry complicated statements written in giant, unreadable books. It tends to...

This is from The Austere Academy in The Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. I do not own this book so I have no picture to...

More than a year ago I developed an interest in eschatology. I have been raised with a certain end times stance, but I only knew some...

When I first read the Ashtown Burials by N.D. Wilson I did not like them very much. I remember disliking the attitude of the main...

Last time I shared a J.C. Ryle quote it spoke of the fight of a true Christian against sin. I talked about how after salvation every...

And here is the very first quote ever to be included in my commonplace journal, and yes, it is about chocolate. Admittedly, I have often...

A few years ago when my two brothers and I were baptized our dad bought each of us a copy of a book called Holiness by J.C. Ryle. He...

I warned you somewhere that some of the quotes I post here would be silly. This could count as a silly one, but it’s also one of those...