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A. W. Pink – Evangelical Obedience
This article is designed chiefly for the enlightenment and comfort of those of God's people who...
Tony Reinke – Know When to Walk Away: A Twelve-Step Digital Detox
The goal of the web is to engage you, to get you to click, scroll, double tap, laugh, cry, and...
D. A. Carson – Why Pray to an All-knowing God?
Prayer changes things. You find plaques promulgating this notion everywhere. You may have one in your home. Countless sermons have been preached, countless prayers prayed, under this assumption: “Prayer changes things.” Or does it? If prayer changes things, how can we...
Sinclair Ferguson – Oh How I Love Your Law!
At a PGA Tour tournament in October 2015, Ben Crane disqualified himself after completing his second round. He did so at considerable financial cost. No matter — Crane believed the personal cost of not doing it would be greater (encouraged by a devotional article he...
Adam McLendon – Teaching Our Children God-Honoring Sexuality
Exposure to sexual content is inevitable in today’s society. In addition to this reality, if you have any desire to raise your child in a Christ-honoring way, then it is necessary to deal with the cultural issues that could cause stumbling and result in long-term...
John Piper – James 3:17–18: What Does It Mean to Meditate?
Do you ever stop to meditate on the Bible? Do you even know what it means to meditate? If we’re ever going to get the most out of our Bible reading, we have to learn to slow down and really think while we read. In this lab, Pastor John models one technique for...
Patrick Ramsey – Good Works and Sola Fide
In my last article I discussed that the puritans believed that good works are more than the fruit of faith, justification and salvation in that they are the way to eternal life and an antecedent condition of glorification. The minority of puritans labelled as...
Ryan McGraw – Wilhelmus à Brakel on Damnation by Faith
Can faith damn us? The Dutch “Puritan” theologian Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711) argued that the first sin of Adam and Eve was unbelief. To state this differently, they exchanged faith in the Word of God for faith in the word of the Serpent (The Christian’s Reasonable...
Christopher Love – How May I Know If I Am in a State of Mortification?
How may I know whether the Lord has brought me into a state of mortification or not?...It may be that some of you are very desirous to be satisfied in it, so I shall give you six revealing characteristics of it and go over them very briefly. Would you know whether God...
Aaron Menikoff – Is Meek Weak?
What’s the first word that comes to your mind when you hear the title “pastor”? My guess is it’s not “gentle.” The Iron Giant notwithstanding, our popular heroes are not known for their meekness. They tend to accomplish great feats through sheer might, skill, and...
Joe Holland – God-Shaped Comfort
Practical atheism thrives on deficient views of God, eroding the joy that Christians should experience in their everyday lives, enveloping the disciple in a mist of uncertainty, confusion, and anxiety. The habits of Christianity (its diverse rituals and liturgies) can...
Martyn Lloyd-Jones – How Pentecost Stands as a Pattern for the Church’s Life
The God Who Acts In Acts 2 God starts the Christian church: “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were...
David Prince – Our Respectable Sin: Laziness
What if you have a child who is well-mannered, makes straight A’s at school, and is successfully involved in all sorts of extracurricular activities, but one day, that child comes home and begins cursing like sailor and curses at you in the process? I wonder, how...