Melissa's Musings

"The doctrines of original sin, election, effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinis...

Charles Spurgeon Nothing so much concerns any one of you as salvation. Your health by all means. Let the physician be fetched if you be...

No man is the less loved by God, because he is tempted. Those whom God loves best--are usually tempted most. Witness David, Job, Joshua, Pet...

"Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. J esus Christ ...

A man sometimes goes from home, and sometimes he does not quite leave his house. There is much difference between those two. If a man leave...

Patience The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour,  and his very dungeon but the...

Let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences...

If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has...

As men cherish young plants at first, and fence them about to keep them from hurt, but when they are grown, they remove them, and t...

“Put the beauty of ten thousand worlds of paradises, like the Garden of Eden in one; put all trees, all flowers, all smells, all colors, al...

“The enjoyment of [God] is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinit...

~ J.C. Ryle Life is the mightiest of all possessions. From death to life is the mightiest of all changes. And no change short of this w...

"Suffering is a part of the process by which the children of God are made holy. They are chastened to wean them from the world, and mak...