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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...Christian Living
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...Christian Living
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...Christian Living
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...Christian Living
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...Christian Living
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...Christian Living
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...Christian Living
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...Christian Living