Christian Living
Christian Living
A Prayer for the Transition of Years
Lord, as we arrive at the cusp of another year’s end, We feel reluctant to cross the finish line. For we ought to have run a better race. Both Thy record book of memory and ours of conscience, Find us painfully lacking in Scripture’s balances. We wish we had justified...
Books
Book of the Month for January 2024
Beeke’s Book of the Month for January 2024 is The Beauty and Glory of the Christian Worldview, edited by Dr. Joel Beeke. Featuring addresses from the 2016 PRTS Conference, speakers, including Derek Thomas, Mark Kelderman, Michael Barrett, and more, remind us how the Word of God establishes God-centered thinking, engages...
Resources
Jesus’s Victory in a Triple Power Struggle
Scripture Reading: Mark 5:1–20 Let’s turn now to the gospel of Mark 5. A few weeks ago, we looked at the parable of the mustard seed as we recommenced our series on Mark, and prior to recommencing that, we had already preached on the last part of Mark 4 as...
Resources
To Call Sinners To Repentance
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. — MARK 2:17; CF. MATTHEW 9:13 One day Jesus passed by a tax office and saw...
Christian Living
We practice hospitality
Personal love and public confession become practical in hospitality. First Peter 4:9 counsels, “Use hospitality one to another without grudging.” The church aims to be a family, and nothing characterizes a family as much as maintaining fellowship and eating meals together. Extending hospitality to others in the church, however, is...
Christian Living
The Call to Cultivate Holiness
Holiness is a noun that relates to the adjective holy and the verb sanctify, which means to ‘make holy.’4 In both biblical languages holy means separated and set apart for God. For the Christian, to be set apart means, negatively, to be separate from sin, and, positively, to be consecrated...
Resources
To Bind Up Broken Hearts
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim...
Resources
God’s Will: Your Sanctification
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To Reveal God’s Love for Sinners
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — JOHN 3:16 John 3:16 has become so familiar that we no longer find its words astonishing. But this remarkable Bible verse reveals an amazing...
