Journey of Cross and Quill

Hosea 4:6 laments that Israel, God’s chosen people, are destroyed for lack of knowledge–for neglecting God’s law. How true this principle remains today. We are a people ignorant of church history, ignorant of America’s Christian heritage, and most importantly ignorant of God. We attend our churches once or twice a week, work hard, and strive […]

At an old English parsonage down by the sea,
There came in the twilight a message to me.
Its quaint Saxon legend deeply engraven
That, as it seems to me, teaching from heaven.
And all through the hours the quiet words ring,
Like a low inspiration, do the next thing.
Many a questioning, many a fear,
Many a doubt hath its quieting […]

Behind every source of law there is a god. To find the god in any system, look for the source of law in that system. If the source of law is the individual, then the individual is the god of that system. If the source of law is the people, or the dictatorship of the […]

O GOD with goodness all thy own
In mercy cause thy face to shine;
So shall thy ways on earth be known,
Thy saving health and power divine:
O let the gladdening nations sing,
And praise thy name with hallowed mirth,
For thou of righteousness art King,
And rulest all the subject earth.
O let the people praise the Lord;
The people all […]

It is firstly required that they have a principle of moral honesty in them … that they “love righteousness and hate iniquity,” that they be “men of truth,” Exod. 18:21, for every man will act in his relation, according to the principle that rules in him: so that an unrighteous man will be an unrighteous […]