• “A Christian woman’s true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate—humble obedience—but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.” – Elisabeth Elliot

Puritans

Anne Hutchinson’s Creed

  • That the Law and the preaching of it, is of no use at all to drive a man to Christ.… Continue reading

Absolute Surrender by Susannah Spurgeon

(Written after her husband’s death.)

I am thine, and all that I have (1 Kings 20:4)

A LITTLE WHILE SINCE,… Continue reading

A cup of bitters? – Anne Dutton

Infinite love ordained it and infinite wisdom prepared it, and infinite power will work with and by it unto your… Continue reading

[Deliverance] From Another Sore Fit by Anne Bradstreet

In my distress I sought the Lord
When naught on earth could comfort give,
And when my soul these things… Continue reading

To a Vile Magdalene by Ruth Bryan

Never had anyone . . .
so rich a Banker,
so kind a Husband,
so tender a Shepherd,
so forbearing… Continue reading

The Vanity of All Worldly Things By Anne Bradstreet

As he said vanity, so vain say I,
Oh! Vanity, O vain all under sky;
Where is the man can… Continue reading

In Thankful Remembrance for My Dear Husband’s Safe Arrival by Annie Bradstreet

What shall I render to Thy name
Or how Thy praises speak?
My thanks how shall I testify?
O Lord,… Continue reading

In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband his Absence by Annie Bradstreet

O Lord, Thou hear’st my daily moan
And see’st my dropping tears.
My troubles all are Thee before,
My longings… Continue reading

Here Follow Several Occasional Meditations by Anne Bradstreet

 

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By night when others soundly slept,
And had at once both case and rest,
My waking eyes were… Continue reading

Deliverance from a Fit of Fainting by Annie Bradstreet

 


Worthy art Thou, O Lord, of praise,
But ah! It’s not in me.
My sinking heart I pray Thee… Continue reading

  • “He is never late.” – Annie Poonen

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Verse of the Day

For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time, — 1 Timothy 2:5-6 (NKJV)

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