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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 Cultivating Biblical Godliness Series by Dr. Joel Beeke. Enjoy this brief excerpt from their introduction to learn why reading the Bible is difficult but necessary. If you had to make a...
Resources
Learning from Stephen
Scripture Reading: Acts 6; 7:1–3, 51–60; 8:1–2 (1) Displaying powerful faith in his witness; (2) Receiving firm hope in his trail; (3) Manifesting fiery love in his execution....
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Is Genesis 1–2 Historical Narrative?
The Bible sometimes uses metaphorical language to communicate historical truth, as David does in Psalm 18.15 Some people have said that Genesis 1 is a kind of poetry or extended metaphor intended to communicate the truth that God created the world but not to present a historical account of how...
Church History
A True Minister
Reverend Hans Egede felt that God had called him to preach His Word to the heathen Eskimos who lived in Greenland. This was not possible for some years, but finally, God opened a way. Reverend Egede arrived with a Danish trading company in 1721. At that time, the Eskimos in...
Podcast
Walk before me, and be thou perfect
Begin your journey into the world of the Puritans here. Pre-order the first set of the 63-volume C.H. Spurgeon Sermons collection here. Pick up William Gouge’s Building a Godly Home here. The Doctrine for Life Podcast presents weekly sermons from the preaching ministry of the Rev. Dr. Joel R. Beeke. Listen to these...Christian Living
Be Faithful to Christ and His Body
Ephesians 4:10–16 shows us five marks of a faithful member of Christ’s body. A faithful member receives Christ’s Word, unites with Christ’s person, connects with Christ’s people, serves others for Christ’s sake, and grows into Christ’s image. In every respect, church membership depends on the church’s living Head, Jesus Christ....
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Being Spirit-filled
(1) Promised: (2) Explained; (3) Needed; (4) Experienced; (5) Tested....
Church History
Experiencing the Piety of Predestination
Though predestination was not the center or governing structure of Perkins’s theology (Christ as set forth in the Apostles’ Creed was), he strongly emphasized predestination as the decretal basis of all salvation and sanctification. However, this did not stunt his emphasis on godliness, but enlightened it with a God-centered piety....
Christian Living
A Sunday Boat Trip
David lived in England. His parents taught him always to be in church on Sunday. One day his friends invited him to go boating on the next Sunday afternoon. David’s conscience warned him, but he wanted to please his friends so David decided to go. That Sunday, the weather was...
