Author: Dr. Jack Hyles

“Another ‘Blue Denim and Lace’? Yes, those who have read my book, Blue Denim and Lace, will be reminded again and again of its pages as they explore ‘Strength and Beauty.’

In both, I have tried to encourage the beautiful to be useful, and the useful to be beautiful. It was said of our Lord that He was full of grace AND Truth. The Psalmist admonishes us that strength and beauty can associate in the same personality, and that honour and majesty should blend. The Apostle Paul reminds us that zeal and knowledge should accompany each other. It is sad but true that these pairs are too seldom seen together; yet it is also true that they may and should be found in all of us.

In my life I have found that when I attain grace, truth often flees, and when I acquire truth, grace is absent. It seems that knowledge and zeal are strange bedfellows, and that strength and beauty refuse to go steady. Like the children’s seesaw, the proper balance is hard to find. To that end, I give you Strength and Beauty, May the Holy Spirit use it to help us acquire zeal AND knowledge, honor AND majesty, grace AND truth, strength AND beauty, with the proper proportion of each. May He use it as another Blue Denim and Lace.” — Dr. Jack Hyles