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Nº 393 When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. - C.S. Lewis This Saturday we celebrate Valentine’s Day, the holiday of love. As a little boy I learned a chorus in Sunday school: Oh how I love Jesus. Oh how I love Jesus. Oh how I love Jesus. Because He first loved me. That is absolutely true - but it is only part of the story. We respond to God’s love for us with love for Him. How could we not? But

Nº 392 Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown. - Corrie Ten Boom A few weeks ago, I wrote about a friend who tried to knit a pair of gloves using a flawed pattern. The wrong directions led to a messy, snarled, and unproductive result. She followed up with this encouraging update. Instead of tossing the entire mess into the trash she decided on a better, more productive idea. She un

Nº 391 As a merciful God, He pitied us; but as a holy God, He could not but hate our transgression; as a God of truth, He could not but fulfill His own threatening; as a God of justice, He must avenge Himself for the offense against Him. He gave Christ as a God of mercy and required satisfaction as a God of justice. - Stephen Charnock After his adventure with the whale, Jonah sparked a powerful revival in the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. His preaching about God’s impending ju