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Beeke’s Book of the Month August 2024: How Can I Read the Bible as a Teen?
Beeke’s Book of the Month for August 2024 is How Can I Read the Bible as a Teen? from the Cultiv...
bible, teenager
Learning from Stephen
Scripture Reading: Acts 6; 7:1–3, 51–60; 8:1–2 (1) Displaying powerful faith in his witness; (...
faith, hope, love, Stephen
Divine Meditation: Frequency and Time
First, divine meditation must be frequent—ideally, twice a day, if time and obligations permit; ce...
Meditation
The definition, nature, and kinds of meditation
“While I was musing the fire burned,” David said (Ps. 39:3). The word meditate or muse means to ...
Meditation, puritan
Richard Sibbes: Sweet Mercy and Bruised Reeds
Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) was a kindhearted Puritan known for the sweetness of his writings. He w...
Puritans
Biblical, Doctrinal, Experiential, and Practical
Experiential preaching, then, teaches that the Christian faith must be experienced, tasted, and live...
experiential, preaching
The Trinitarian Foundation of Adoption
Believers are not sons of God by nature because we lost the status and privileges of sonship in our ...
adoption, Trinity
How Christ Blesses Our Children
As we engage in various ways to bring our children to Jesus, let us be urgent but never desperate. E...
bless, children, Christ
The Apex of Jesus’s Prayers: Glorifying His Father’s Name
(1) Father, be the primacy of our prayer; (2) Father, grant us know Thee rightly; (3) Father, move u...
father, glorify, Jesus, prayer
The Blessedness of Christian Law-Keeping
Law-keeping blesses believers in many ways. Here I will expound just three major ways it does so: 1....
Law, Puritans
Homosexuality and Salvation in Christ
Paul did not write Romans 1 in order to proudly judge homosexuality, or to cast those practicing it ...
Christ, homosexuality, salvation
The pursuit of illumination
What does this mean for the unbeliever? It means that you should be smitten with grief over your wil...
Holy Spirit, illumination
Experiential preaching is applicatory
Experiential preaching is applicatory. It applies the text to every aspect of the listener’s life,...
experiential, preaching
Developing Good Communication Skills
When you marry, you enter a covenant of companionship. Malachi 2:14 says, “The wife of thy youth...
communication, marriage
The Names of the Spirit
At times the Bible gives to the Spirit names or titles related to works he does or graces he gives, ...
Holy Spirit, systematic theology
Why Study Anthropology?
Theology is both an academic discipline and a spiritual discipline. For this reason, it demands much...
anthropology
Common Objections to Theology
The question of why we do theology presses hard against us in this age. A number of objections are r...
systematic theology
Remember the Value of Prayer
The disciples wanted to learn to pray because they saw the place that prayer had in the life of our ...
prayer
Assurance Must Be Actively Pursued as a Duty
Westminster Confession 18.3 says that “it is the duty of every one to give all diligence to make h...
assurance, Puritans, Westminster Confession
Belonging to the Perfect Father
By gracious adoption; By supernatural rebirth; By expectant prayer. John 1:12-14; Matthew 6:9...
adoption, prayer, rebirth
The Sealer of Our Souls
The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, meticulously edited with a 110- page memoir by Alexander Grosa...
Holy Spirit
Practical Helps for Reading the Bible
If we are going to be successful in attempting to read the Bible, we must discipline ourselves. Lots...
bible
Examples of Victorious Death
God gives dying grace to His people for death’s hour. Some of His people die with little fanfare. ...
death
Men of Prayer
Finally, the Puritans saturated all their evangelistic efforts in prayer. They were “men of the cl...
prayer, Puritans
The Place of the Law in the Christian Life
As seen above, the Law’s end is in Christ’s work, but the Law is not abolished, nor does the exp...
Law, Puritans
The Bible in the Suitcase
A group of young people were visiting their minister and his wife one evening. The conversation was ...
bible
Knowing God According to His Self-Revelation
The Puritans rightly believed that though “the magnitude of God’s perfections is well beyond the...
Puritans
Jeremiah Burroughs
Jeremiah Burroughs (or Burroughes) was baptized in 1601 and admitted as a pensioner at Emmanuel Coll...
Puritans
Pray Believingly
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever sh...
prayer
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess, “a pious, learned, and able scholar, a good disputant, a good tutor, an eminent p...
Puritans
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