Author Archives: The Town Crier Outlet

Like a foolish dreamer, trying to build a highway to the skyAll my hopesWould come tumbling down, and I never knew just whyUntil today, when You pulled away the cloudsThat hung like curtains on my eyesWell, I’ve been blindAll these … Continue reading →

The Catholic Church had corrupt popes in medieval times, but they also had St. Francis of Assisi; the Lutheran Church started off on fire for God until Luther turned antisemitic; Richard Baxter had a fruitful Puritan publishing ministry while strangely … Continue reading →

This is God’s standard of holiness: lust is adultery, hatred is murder, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, all liars will have their part in the lake of fire. Hell is very real, but God’s rich in mercy, … Continue reading →

We also speak of these things, not in words taught or supplied by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual thoughts with spiritual words [for those being guided by the Holy Spirit]. But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things … Continue reading →

A really great Wesleyan sermon based on Lecture 3: “Devotion, January 30, 1839,” in the Charles Finney collection called The Promise of the Spirit (Bethany House, 1980), taken from The Oberlin Evangelist.