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What is Your Mind Toward Christ?
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Book of the Month for December 2023
Beeke’s Book of the Month for December 2023 is Taking Hold of God: Reformed and Puritan Perspectives on Prayer by Dr. Joel Beeke and Brian Najapfour. Enjoy this brief excerpt from the preface of the book that captures the vibrant Puritan spirit in prayer. (Note: All of the references in...
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To be made like his people
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same…. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made...
Christian Living
We personally trust in Christ
Colossians 2:6–7 says, “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.” True church members receive Christ personally as prophet, priest, and king (for that...
Christian Living
Loving Your Spouse
Without sincere, selfless love, a marriage cannot glorify God. A husband and wife are to love each other with a strong, fervent, and steadfast love and not with a love that waxes and wanes with the changing tides of beauty, dress, or riches or fluctuates with emotions and lusts. It...
Christian Living
We actively listen to the Word
Jesus describes four kinds of listeners to the Word in the parable of the soils, only one of whom receives the Word, perseveres in faith, and goes on to bear abundant fruit. In Luke 8:18a, Jesus says, “Take heed therefore how ye hear.” On Saturday, prepare for Sabbath worship by...
Christian Living
We faithfully attend corporate worship
Hunger for the Word in church is expressed publicly by faithful attendance at church worship services. Hebrews 10:25 says we must not forsake assembling ourselves in corporate worship. Christian worship fills us with the Word. Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;...
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Bringing God Joyful Thanksgiving
O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Psalm 95:1,2...
Christian Living
We personally hunger for the Word
In 1 Peter 2:2, the apostle Peter urges all Christians to thirst for the sincere milk of the Word, “that ye may grow thereby.” If you are sick and have no appetite, you feel only nausea when served a delicious meal. The longer supper lasts, the more restless you become....
