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How to Profit from Reading the Puritans
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Here are nine ways you can grow spiritually by reading Puritan literature today: 1. Puritan writings...
The Spirit’s Work
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The night on which He was betrayed, Jesus spoke to His disciples about the dawn of a new day that wo...
What is Prayer
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Prayer is the act of forging a connection between two specific points: our human needs and the resou...
The Need for Prayer Meetings
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“We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting ...
Office Bearers by Union with Christ
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The Heidelberg Catechism (Q. 31) says Jesus is called the Christ because Christ means “anointed,...
Calvin as an Experiential Preacher
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John Calvin embraced a high view of preaching. He called the preaching office “the most excellent ...
The Preacher
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How do we view ourselves as ministers of the Word? Why are we in the ministry? What does our work co...
Understanding Union with Christ
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Union with Christ is an essential and most wonderful component of the gospel. The believer’s secur...
Why is it so tough to read the Bible?
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Here are three big reasons: The Bible is big. In fact, it’s huge! It’s more like a library than ...
Meditation on Heaven
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For the Puritans, probably the most important theme for meditation was heaven—the place where God ...
Christian Meditation
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Spiritual growth is intended to be part of the Christian life of believers. [This booklet is adapted...
Plant Godly Convictions
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For years we care for our children like birds care for their nestlings. We shield them from danger, ...
Ministry to Children
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Practical Guidelines for Ministry to Children in the Church Let us consider next how the church shou...
God’s Attribute of Holiness
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God’s attribute of holiness may be considered the glory of all His attributes. He is “the Holy O...
God speaks through His Word
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I fear that there are many evangelicals today who believe that God spoke but doubt whether He speaks...
Prepare Faithfully For Worship
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The Puritans held that all preparation is ultimately ineffectual apart from the Holy Spirit’s work...
Conforming Us
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The resurrected body of Jesus teaches us much about our resurrection bodies. The risen Jesus appeare...
Beeke’s Book of the Month April 2023— Heirs with Christ: The Puritans on Adoption
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This month, Heirs with Christ: The Puritans on Adoption by Dr. Joel Beeke is on sale for only $5 at ...
The function of anthropology
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A true anthropology is foundational for right and wise ethical decisions. Much of the confusion of o...
Systematic Theology Must Engage
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Systematic theology must engage with erroneous systems of belief, whether false religions, Christian...
Remembering
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To those who come to the Lord’s Table, sorrowing for the sins that nailed Christ to the cross, hat...
“Come, Lord Jesus” with John Piper
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Here is an interview that I had with Dr. John Piper, two days ago on his moving and humbling new boo...
Lectio Continua Method of Preaching
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The greatest need of the church today is the recovery of sound biblical preaching. We need preaching...
Family Worship
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I believe one major reason for this failure is the lack of stress upon family worship. In many churc...
Reformed Systematic Theology, Volume 2
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It was part of Christ’s wisdom that “he knew what was in man” (John 2:25). This knowledge enab...
Reformed Systematic Theology, Volume 1
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Theology is conceived by hearing God’s Word, and it comes to birth by prayer. “Show me thy ways,...
Reformed Preaching
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Perhaps you have heard preaching that fills the head but not the heart. You come away better informe...
Pulpit A flame
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Although sermonic style varies in different times and places, the Reformation produced a legacy of e...
Dying and Death: Getting Rightly Prepared for the Inevitable
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Dying and death are profound, hostile, even terrifying. We all must experience an unspeakable, radic...
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