FAIR SUNSHINE

"A donkey and a tiger were having a dispute. The donkey insisted, "The grass is blue". But the tiger replied, "No, the grass is green." The discussion heated up, and the two decided to submit him to arbitration, and for this they went before the lion, the King of the Jungle. Already before reaching the forest clearing, where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey began to shout: "His Highness, is it true that the grass is blue?". The lion replied, "True, the grass is blue." The donkey hurried and continued: "The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts and annoys me, please punish him." The king then declared, "The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence." The donkey jumped cheerfully and went on his way, content and repeating: "The Grass Is Blue!" The tiger accepted his punishment, but before he asked the lion, "Your Majesty, why have you punished me?, after all, the grass is green." The

The sobering thing about life is that we are oblivious that all things have an end. A moment will come that we will be doing things for the last time, be it for our families, our friends, or our souls. The greatest happiness is not found in this life, though we can appreciate what we have as we go along, because happiness is found only in the person of Christ, who is not of this world. Everything else in this world, is fleeting, and has an end. Even death itself has an end. But where death to self ends, life in Christ begins. To the unbelieving, physical death ends in eternal death. This is the greatest of tragedies.

The Whole Christ by Sinclair Fergusson Wading through this gem as I spent 3 hours in a shoot doing nothing but read, I have come to understand what has always puzzled me - the horror most well meaning Christians have when somebody mentions the word "works" and "grace" in the same sentence. The topic is nothing new, and is still far from being realized. This among others confirm what I have always understood: That as unregenerate reprobates we were once in enmity to God and His laws, but Christ has come to reconcile us as new creatures to the same eternal law. Not freed from it, but freed for it. "Since we’re saved by grace alone, does the law of God have a place in the life of a Christian? This perennial question is essential to answer if we are to be faithful followers of Christ. In this series, Dr. Sinclair Ferguson expands on his book and illustrates the biblical relationship between God’s grace and our work. Dr. Ferguson makes it clear that the solution to

PPP is the serving ministry of this kind and dear couple, Warren and Angel, whom I have been privileged to meet and know. Half of what I have received in my library came from them. Their vision is to serve the body of Christ by making hard to find books available at a very low price. Here they are at their book table at the previous conference held at Makati. Much of the work of studying Christ is understood to be "the pastor's job". In prominent churches people find it tedious to carry their bibles to church, much less read it, and even less study it. The business of selling books here is a profitable venture, but it depends largely on the subject. Fictional stories rank highest, religious books maybe at the middle, but the farther you go from the norm, the more difficult it is to sell. The subject of Puritanism is almost unheard of here, its value unrecognized. The prospect of selling it, specialized. Yet God still has mercy to make these treasures available to "th

The Works of Thomas Brooks The definitive edition of the Works of Thomas Brooks, here reissued, was first published by James Nichol in 1866. It was edited by A. B. Grosart. At that time, C. H. Spurgeon commented in The Sword and the Trowel: ‘The volumes now before us are by that marvelously rich author Thomas Brooks, whose wealth of imagery surpasses all others of his age. The mere marginal notes of Brooks are more valuable than pages of ordinary writers; we take pleasure in the stone of his temple, and the very dust thereof we favour. Of all the Puritans he is the most readable, if we except John Bunyan; and if he cannot display the depth of Owen or the raciness of Adams, he leaves them far behind in excessive [unusual] sweetness and sparkling beauty of metaphor. There is a clear, silvery, refreshing sound in the name “Brooks”, and as is the name, such is the man. Every reader who can afford the money should purchase this incorrupt, unmutilated, unchanged, well-printed and perfectly e