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Hold Fast, Pastors

There are also several factors in our current spiritual environment that drain a pastor’s vital zeal for ministry. We must oppose these forces with the grace of our Lord. Hebrews 4:14 says, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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We publicly confess our faith

Jesus asks His disciples, “Whom say ye that I am?” Peter responds, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matt. 16:15–16). Jesus then warns His disciples (including us) that if they do not confess Him to other people, He will refuse to acknowledge them on judgment day...
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We are personally connected by love

Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 4:9–10: “But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that...
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We give practical obedience to Christ

In John 14:15, Jesus says, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” He later adds, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them…loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him” (v. 21). Obedience is...
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The Ultimate Puritan Reading List

In the video below, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley present their top choices for starting to read the Puritans. Below the video you’ll find a list personally prepared by Joel and Paul, with links to purchase from RHB.  Joel and Paul discuss most of the books on this list...
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We make diligent use of the sacraments

I am not suggesting that baptism and the Lord’s Supper have any inherent power to save. Trusting in the sacraments for salvation is idolatry. In its historic Reformed usage, sacrament means “a public sign and seal of the covenant between God and man.” Sacraments are also called “ordinances,” for Christ...
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To bear witness to the truth

Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth...
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