Looks delicious. (Source) Well, I hope all of my US readers enjoyed a restful and blessed Thanksgiving yesterday. Are you full yet? Or do you need just one more piece of pie? After all, pie is by default a very healthy food. Fruit filling? Check. Fruit is healthy. Whipped cream? Check. Healthy bones need calcium. Perfectly flaky pie crust? Check.

Thankful for family. Thankful for friends. Thankful for a warm house, clothing, food, and a job that provides the income for each. Thankful for safety and good health. Thankful for the birds that sing a good morning song outside the window each day. Thankful for beautiful sunrises and faithfully vivid sunsets. Thankful for a purring kitty.

From time to time, when life gets a little hectic and the blog gets a little too quiet, I like to enlist the aid of guest bloggers to continue to provide the reader with thoughtful and interesting material. Today's guest post comes to us from Pastor Don Green of Truth Community Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Pastor Green is also the voice of the

The idea of "blessing" has been hijacked by the prosperity movement, but the reality is that those who have been saved are blessed by God. But how is this blessing determined? How is it measured? What does it look like? Is blessing a state of mind, or a state of affairs? Click here to listen to this episode of Equipping Eve. Click here

Thanks to God

Authors: EBenz

Look, I get it: you like to be comfortable. Hey, I like to be comfortable! It's one of the reasons I'm thankful my workplace has a casual dress policy. Let's face it, we ladies especially are going to be more productive if we aren't tottering and freezing in heels and hose, respectively. I'm also thankful that I live in a town that isn't, for

Like every potter he first of all makes the outlines in the clay. You may have seen a man at work executing designs in glass. Perhaps at the very first moment you may form a rough guess of what the whole thing is to be, though the ornament and elaboration which constitute the main part of the beauty you cannot yet discover. Certain it is, that

The Bible is God's final, authoritative, inerrant Word. Yet, it is a sad reality that in evangelicalism today, many pastors handle it with casualness or even callousness. This is why doctrinally sound, in-depth, expository Bible teaching is such an important treasure. Unfortunately, it is a jewel that is becoming more and more rare. That is why

Be Still My Soul

Authors: EBenz

Is it weird that I get excited when the new Menards ad arrives each week? Am I the only one who thinks that Menards is the greatest home improvement store of them all? I love the smell of sawdust and I loved watching my grandfather in his workshop. It's true, this may seem like an odd store for a woman—a woman blogger, no less—to enjoy, but I h

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Authors: EBenz

What is a "humility apron"? It's what happens when Scripture is misappropriated and when gimmicks are used as a means to study the Bible. In short, it's what happens at small group. Click here to listen to this latest episode of Equipping Eve. Click here for a list of resources referenced on this episode of Equipping Eve. Additional

I have to admit, there are a lot of weeks that I struggle to compile this post. Time constraints aside, these days I simply am finding less and less of interest on the internet. I don't think I'm alone in saying that many of us are weary by now of all the discernment blogs and their tendency to act like the proverbial dog with a bone. Yes, we get

Additional Resources Sexual Fidelity: No Compromise No Compromise: The Best Husbands, Calvinists or Pelagians? No Compromise: A Psalm 22 'Message Moment' No Compromise: The Error of 'Friendship' Evangelism

Authors: EBenz

A Mighty Fortress

Authors: EBenz

Today we mark the anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenburg. It is a great day in the history of the Church. Yes, today is Reformation Day. The Reformation Wall depicts Guillaume Farel, Johannes Calvin, Théodore de Bèze and John Knox When we think of the Reformation, we often think of the

I will admit, candy corn is delicious I am sure I've said it before, but I do not understand Halloween. More specifically, I do not understand adults who celebrate Halloween. I just…don't get it. It actually isn't even the pagan elements of the celebration that bother me most. Don't get me wrong, those are most certainly troublesome, but s

I once received an email from a male reader who rebuked me for not having a big, bold banner across the top of my website that announced that I was a female. The implication was that, since I was discussing biblical truth and "teaching," I was in sin if a man visited my site, read, and learned. As you can see, that banner never did find

How Great Thou Art

Authors: EBenz

The word of the day is "perspicuity." There are those in the professing church who would say that true humility admits that we cannot know what the Bible really means. Such a vague view of Scripture has not been the historic position of the Church through the ages, however. Why? Because God's Word is clear about its clarity; it is

Sometimes we need to step back and refocus on the Son. I'm tired. Weary. Not just physically, but mentally. Perhaps even spiritually. And not just weary of the hustle and bustle of everyday life. No, that can be remedied with a good night's sleep or a completed to-do list. I am weary of two things: the world and its idle pursuits, and the

Lift High the Cross

Authors: EBenz

Some weeks there just isn't much to say, or not enough time to write what I would like. Those are the weeks when I say to myself, "You know, my readers probably just need to hear from someone far more wise, far more learned, far more wonderful." And those are the days when I turn to the great men of old who have gone before us in Church

Come, Christians Join to Sing (medley)

Authors: EBenz