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Melissa Kruger – Fruitful Vines: 7 Reasons to Read the Bible in a Year
I spent last week cleaning up the remains of tomato vines from my garden. It’s easy work because...
Chris Brauns – 7 Benefits of Systematic Long-Term Scripture Memorization
Andy Naselli recently wrote two pieces that encourage and equip believers to memorize whole books...
R. C. Sproul – Perfectly Human
Over the past two centuries, much has been written in evangelical circles on the deity of Christ. This has been good and necessary, for many people deny that Jesus is the Son of God incarnate. Sometimes I fear, however, that this emphasis on Christ’s deity has led to...
Michael Oard – What Caused the Ice Age?
Secular scientists have challenged creation scientists to explain the Ice Age. Also, they claim that there were numerous ice ages, possibly up to fifty, at intervals of 100,000 or 40,000 years over the past 2.6 million years. Bible believers need to respond to this...
Joseph Franks – High Law … High Grace … High Worship
The Law comes from our good God. The Law comes as a good gift from our good God. The Law is a good presentation of God’s standard of goodness. It tell us that which is really good in the sight of God. The Law is a good magnifier of our non-goodness. It does a...
John Piper – 1 Peter 2:11–12, Part 1: Your Old Passions War Against You
There are desires inside of you that want to destroy you. They will try and lure you to anything and everything except God and His glory. In this lab, John Piper teaches us to fight remaining sin in our own hearts. He end by giving two strategies for abstaining from...
Gavin Ortlund – 5 Strategies for Daily Bible Reading
I’ve always been amazed by Jesus’ response to Satan’s first temptation: “if you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread” (Matthew 4:3). I picture Jesus there, looking at the stones. His ribs are poking out, and his body is worn away after 40...
John Piper – 1 Peter 2:9–10, Part 2: Why You Exist in the World
Can you explain why you exist in the world? When God created you, and then saved you and made you new, why did he do it? The Bible gives us unbelievable clarity. In this lab, John Piper explains the purpose of your life. We exist not to call attention to ourselves,...
Joe Holland – Christian Knowledge and Action
You’d think Pavlov invented it, that characteristic sound of a new instant message, the "buh-ding." That’s what Jack heard in his cubicle that morning, before caffeine had cleared the fog in his head. He clicked over to his messenger application as routinely as if...
Justin Taylor – A Crash Course on the Muslim Worldview and Islamic Theology
Adam Francisco (who has a Ph.D. in Islamic-Christian relations from Oxford University) is professor of history at Concordia University in Irvine, California. His work on the history of Islam is nuanced and informed. As one online bio notes, “He has a unique ability to...
Albert Mohler – Relativity, Moral Relativism, and the Modern Age
This intellectual revolution began with four lectures in late 1915 presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. The lectures were given by Albert Einstein, and before the end of the year Einstein would publish his argument for a “General Theory of Relativity.” Those...
Herman Bavinck – The Greatness of God
On the very first page of the Bible the absolute transcendence of God above His creatures comes to our attention. Without strain or fatigue He calls the whole world into existence by His word alone. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of...
John Piper – 1 Peter 2:9–10, Part 1: God Treasures You, But Not Because of You
When a person becomes a Christian, they take on an entirely different identity, the pinnacle of which is being God’s prized possession. In this lab, John Piper looks at two of the most explicit and most profound verses on Christian identity. What we learn should...
Scott Swain – What Is Doctrine?
When I was young, I only thought of my future: Whom would I marry? What vocation would I pursue? Where would I live? Now that I am the father of four children, I think only of their futures. As he approached the final days of his ministry, the Apostle Paul set his...