Crumbs from the Master's Table

A Lutheran prayer for God's protection from all evil: Dear Father, give us our daily bread, good seasons, and health. Protect us from ...

The hymnal, so theologically rich, is a great source for soul care. I believe David Powlison (certainly not alone) has often pointed this ou...

Do you know God to be the kind of God who counts your tossings and keeps your tears? Do you know him as a loving heavenly Father who puts yo...

A Lutheran prayer for God's providential protection and provision: Oh, God, grant that all people — in city and country — be diligent a...

A Lutheran prayer for instruction, preservation, and protection of the home: Teach us by your Spirit to manage our homes well and to rule o...

In his chapter on Ezra in Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament , John J. Bimson says this about God's sovereign actions: Ezr...

Expounding Psalm 29, C. H. Spurgeon speaks sanely of God's wondrous works in the world: "Natural causes, as men call them, are Go...

Calvin, commenting on Ps. 29, speaks this wisdom: Philosophers think not that they have reasoned skillfully enough about inferior causes, u...

William Cowper produced in 1774 what is probably my favorite hymn: God Moves in a Mysterious Way . It expresses the mysteries and glories of...

Moving through John Owen's On Communion with God , one sentence recently grabbed me, shook me, turned me round, and set me going in a ne...