Over the last twenty-nine years our devotional publication has gone through many changes. The first issue, in May of 1996, was a simple, one-page, text-only devotional published weekly via e-mail to subscribers. It is now full-color, multi-page, and published monthly—on the 15th—at our web site. It is available in three formats: including two PDFs, one in landscape, for easier viewing on screen (Reflections’ native and preferred format), and one in portrait, for printing.
April 2025 Issue
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Venerable saints, long in tooth and short in memory, may be a valued repository of spiritual wisdom gathered over the years, but many have forgotten what it is to gasp in wonder at the majestic genius of a holy God. For many of us He has become little more than a favorite old uncle that we sing about on Sunday mornings and occasionally pray to because, after all, He is God. These apathetic responses to such a dynamic God and gracious Savior can be the unfortunate result of knowing Him for so long.
He is an old friend of whom we think we know everything there is to know, so we have stopped asking about what we don’t. Knowing a little, we forget the wealth beyond our ken.
The two-fold purpose of Reflections by the Pond is to, first of all, bring glory and honor to God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and then to build up believers into a higher—and deeper—level of sanctification.
And by His grace we will.
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