Author Archives: Stan Guthrie

“The Bible is not about you.”— Tim Keller

By Stan Guthrie Years ago, Christine and I went to a small, local book fair. At one point, a woman with stars in her eyes came to our table and asked her, “What’s it like to be married to a … Continue reading →

“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross.”― Elisabeth Elliot

Hoping for a “Hail Mary” with the lottery, a contest, or a sweepstakes is not a retirement plan. It’s foolishness. “Whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.”

“The very essence of the Christian faith is to say that He is good enough and I am in Him.”― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

After some Bears fans (yes, Bears fans, who after all should be in a good mood this week) attempted to savage me on X for no good reason, I asked Grok, “Why are people so angry these days and spoiling … Continue reading →

When you go on vacation, you expect to experience a lot of things—fun, rest, exhaustion, togetherness, delight, surprises, and so on. You don’t expect to feel afraid—or at least I didn’t. Then I went to Colorado. My latest post for … Continue reading →

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said Christians are “fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy.” I guess I’m a fundamentalist!

On Saturday morning, we paid the USPS $33.40 for Priority Mail Express service to Indiana from Naperville, with a guaranteed delivery by 6 PM on Tuesday. The document is still out for delivery today. Moral of the story: For important … Continue reading →

“When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.” — Clement of Alexandria