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The Trinitarian Foundation of Adoption
Believers are not sons of God by nature because we lost the status and privileges of sonship in our tragic fall with Adam in Paradise. Adoption is possible only when God’s electing grace calls us into all the privileges and blessings of being His children. When we are born again,...
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God’s Amazing Daily Provision
Bible text: Matthew 6:11 (1) The petition for it: (2) The purchase of it; (3) the fruit from it....
Christian Living
Assurance Is Normally Attained by the Use of Ordinary Means
Westminster Confession 18.3 goes on to say that, “being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, [the believer] may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of ordinary means, attain” to assurance. Anthony Burgess said the believer has a lifelong call to...
Christian Living
How Christ Blesses Our Children
As we engage in various ways to bring our children to Jesus, let us be urgent but never desperate. Even when we do not immediately see the fruits of faith in our children, let us have a quiet confidence in God, who knows how to work in our children in...
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God Strengthening Abraham’s Faith
“Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”-Genesis 15:1 This week, on Doctrine for Life, Dr. Joel Beeke reveals how the word of the LORD comforted a fearful Abraham in the first part of his sermon on Genesis 15:1-6....
Christian Living
The Inspiring Contagiousness of Submission
…the real issue is not how many afflictions we experience but whether those sorrows bring us into sweet submission before God as we surrender everything to him. Would you sacrifice your most cherished hopes and dreams if God asked you to? Jephthah’s daughter did and set an example for thousands...
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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 us to magnify Thee; (4) Father, order our lives for Thy honor....
Christian Living
We are uniquely made
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion…. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the...
Church History
Calvin on Psalm Singing
John Calvin loved the Book of Psalms. For twenty-five years, Calvin immersed himself in the Psalms as a commentator, preacher, biblical scholar, and worship leader. For Calvin, the psalmists’ words were always relevant for the New Testament church. The major psalmist, David, reflected an important stage in the history of...
