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The Puritan Evangelist

The Puritan evangelist brought to his work a unique inward disposition or frame of mind and soul. Commitment to godliness lay at the heart of the Puritan vision. Thomas Brooks wrote, “A preacher’s life should be a commentary upon his doctrine; his practice should be the counterpane [counterpart] of his...
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What is True Conversion?

  Sermon Text: Psalm 51:10-13 Its comprehensiveness Its sorrow Its joy Its fruits  ...
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God Is God

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. —PSALM 46:10 PRAYER Gracious Lord, Thou art God and I am not. Thou art infinite and I am finite. Thou art powerful and I am weak....
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Christian Living

What is Puritan Worship?

Historically, Puritan worship traces its roots to the apostles and early church fathers through the Reformation. In Puritan writings, you will find many references to Martin Luther (1483–1546). Luther sought to bring all of worship under the Holy Scriptures. He cut back the seven sacraments to two, baptism and the...
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Christian Living

Create in me a clean heart, O God.

We are all born with a physical heart in our body, and we can feel it beating. It keeps us alive. We are also born with a soul, but we cannot see it. The Bible sometimes calls our soul a heart, because just as our physical heart is the center...
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How to Evaluate Your Sermons

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the...
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The Puritans on God’s Holiness and Ours

 In our day, few people consider holiness a priority. But for the Puritans, their goal was to bring every area of life into conformity to Jesus Christ. In this session, Dr. Joel Beeke looks at the Puritans’ teaching on sanctification. This message is from the 2019 National Conference, He...
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Christian Living

Killing Remaining Sin

  Dear congregation, too many people today think that Jesus Christ is soft on sin, because of his mercy, his love, his gospel grace. Very few people realize that nobody talked about the radicality of sin, the consequences of sin, the heinous nature of sin and hell that results from...
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Christian Living

Learning to Pray

Once there was an old man who often said that he never went to bed without saying the prayer his mother had taught him as a little boy. He was pleased with himself, because he thought his prayer pleased God. One Sunday, he went to Sunday School. The teacher asked...
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Knowing God and making Him known

Knowing God and making Him known are the heartbeat of what it means to be human. Calvin asks in his catechism, “What is the chief end of human life?” He answers, “To know God.” There are several reasons the knowledge of God is central and supreme for all human life....
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