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Divine Meditation: Frequency and Time
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First, divine meditation must be frequent—ideally, twice a day, if time and obligations permit; ce...
The definition, nature, and kinds of meditation
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“While I was musing the fire burned,” David said (Ps. 39:3). The word meditate or muse means to ...
Richard Sibbes: Sweet Mercy and Bruised Reeds
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Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) was a kindhearted Puritan known for the sweetness of his writings. He w...
Biblical, Doctrinal, Experiential, and Practical
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Experiential preaching, then, teaches that the Christian faith must be experienced, tasted, and live...
The Trinitarian Foundation of Adoption
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Believers are not sons of God by nature because we lost the status and privileges of sonship in our ...
How Christ Blesses Our Children
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As we engage in various ways to bring our children to Jesus, let us be urgent but never desperate. E...
The Apex of Jesus’s Prayers: Glorifying His Father’s Name
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(1) Father, be the primacy of our prayer; (2) Father, grant us know Thee rightly; (3) Father, move u...
The Blessedness of Christian Law-Keeping
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Law-keeping blesses believers in many ways. Here I will expound just three major ways it does so: 1....
Homosexuality and Salvation in Christ
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Paul did not write Romans 1 in order to proudly judge homosexuality, or to cast those practicing it ...
The pursuit of illumination
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What does this mean for the unbeliever? It means that you should be smitten with grief over your wil...
Experiential preaching is applicatory
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Experiential preaching is applicatory. It applies the text to every aspect of the listener’s life,...
Developing Good Communication Skills
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When you marry, you enter a covenant of companionship. Malachi 2:14 says, “The wife of thy youth...
The Names of the Spirit
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At times the Bible gives to the Spirit names or titles related to works he does or graces he gives, ...
Why Study Anthropology?
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Theology is both an academic discipline and a spiritual discipline. For this reason, it demands much...
Common Objections to Theology
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The question of why we do theology presses hard against us in this age. A number of objections are r...
Remember the Value of Prayer
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The disciples wanted to learn to pray because they saw the place that prayer had in the life of our ...
Assurance Must Be Actively Pursued as a Duty
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Westminster Confession 18.3 says that “it is the duty of every one to give all diligence to make h...
Belonging to the Perfect Father
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By gracious adoption; By supernatural rebirth; By expectant prayer. John 1:12-14; Matthew 6:9...
The Sealer of Our Souls
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The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, meticulously edited with a 110- page memoir by Alexander Grosa...
Practical Helps for Reading the Bible
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If we are going to be successful in attempting to read the Bible, we must discipline ourselves. Lots...
Examples of Victorious Death
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God gives dying grace to His people for death’s hour. Some of His people die with little fanfare. ...
Men of Prayer
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Finally, the Puritans saturated all their evangelistic efforts in prayer. They were “men of the cl...
The Place of the Law in the Christian Life
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As seen above, the Law’s end is in Christ’s work, but the Law is not abolished, nor does the exp...
The Bible in the Suitcase
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A group of young people were visiting their minister and his wife one evening. The conversation was ...
Knowing God According to His Self-Revelation
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The Puritans rightly believed that though “the magnitude of God’s perfections is well beyond the...
Jeremiah Burroughs
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Jeremiah Burroughs (or Burroughes) was baptized in 1601 and admitted as a pensioner at Emmanuel Coll...
Pray Believingly
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And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever sh...
Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess, “a pious, learned, and able scholar, a good disputant, a good tutor, an eminent p...
Christ as the Second (or Last) Adam
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Scripture Reading: Rom. 5:12–21; 1 Cor. 15:45–58; Outline: 1.) The work of the Second Adam; 2.) ...
The purpose of the Bible
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The purpose of the Bible—Genesis in particular—is to reveal God to us. It is to show us His pers...
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