What Proverbs 31 Actually Says: A Slow Read for the Tired Woman You have heard of the Proverbs 31 woman. You have probably heard of her too many times, and rarely from someone who has slowed down enough to read the chapter the way it was written. If you are tired of being told to…
Spurgeon’s Faith’s Checkbook: A Victorian Devotional That Still Holds the Page Most “promises of God” devotionals feel like claim-tickets. Open the page, find a verse, claim the promise, expect the outcome. That is not what Charles Spurgeon was doing when he wrote Faith’s Checkbook in 1893. He was dying. He had buried friends. He had…
Fénelon on long obedience and the slow path — a closing reading of Spiritual Progress for the soul who has walked with God a long time and needs to keep going.
Fenelon prayer of half surrender — the honest prayer for the soul who knows she has not fully said yes. A slow reading of Spiritual Progress.
Fenelon on trust god with what you cant fix — the slow reading of Spiritual Progress for the woman holding a situation no effort will resolve.
Fénelon’s strength in surrender — why the surrendered soul is the strongest soul. A slow reading of Spiritual Progress for the woman whose faith feels brittle.
Fenelon when you cant surrender — a slow read of Spiritual Progress on the soul that cannot yet say yes, and the patient direction that begins with naming why.
Fenelon dying to self — a slow read of Spiritual Progress on what actually dies in the surrendered soul and what He gently keeps and gives back.
Fenelon hourly self offering — a slow read of Spiritual Progress on the small yeses that carry the annual surrender through the year that follows.
Fenelon hidden self will — a slow read of Spiritual Progress on why the will reasserts itself even in surrender, and how the holiest things are its best hiding.
