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Five Motivations to Pray
For years, when I thought about prayer, I mostly felt guilty for lacking a robust prayer life—reading stories of great saints praying for two hours
Brian Hedges
July 6, 2022
Brian Hedges
Brian Hedges is the lead pastor for Fulkerson Park Baptist Church in Niles, Michigan, and the author of Christ Formed in You: The Power of the Gospel for Personal Change (Shepherd Press, 2010) and Licensed to Kill: A Field Manual for Mortifying Sin (Cruciform Press, 2011).
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The Trinity and Our Prayer Life
What does the doctrine of the Trinity have to do with the practice of prayer? Well, the Trinity is something that all Christians believe but
Brian Hedges
July 4, 2022
Holiness: The Beauty of Grace in the Christian
Crucified with Christ: How the Cross Kills Sin
The most graphic image that Scripture uses for the killing of sin is crucifixion. The cross has rightly stood at the center of Christian theology
Brian Hedges
October 27, 2019
Holiness: The Beauty of Grace in the Christian
Four Ways to Handle Temptation When It Comes
How do you handle temptation? I’m not talking about the fleeting, seemingly benign thought of sin that may hold initial allure, but is easily dismissed
Brian Hedges
October 27, 2019
From the Alpha to the Omega: A Portrait of Jesus
Three Critical Truths about Redemption
“Redemption” is a rich word and perhaps somewhat unique among the great gospel words in our theological vocabulary, in that it’s a word that easily
Brian Hedges
April 29, 2018
Engaging with God: A Foray into Prayer and Spiritual Warfare
The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prayer
In the double interests of going deeper in some of my favorite theologians and trying to strengthen my own prayer life, I’ve recently been reading
Brian Hedges
January 31, 2018
Sanctify
How Sin Does Its Work
“Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort
Brian Hedges
November 14, 2017
Sanctify
Which Joy Rules Your Heart?
John Owen (1616–1683) has a reputation for being hard on sin — and even harder to read. Nineteenth-century Scottish professor John Duncan is famous for
Brian Hedges
October 14, 2017