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TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR PASTORS By Dr. Joel Beeke
Give priority to your personal communion with God. Put your own soul first: your maintaining communion with God is a prerequisite for being an effective pastor to your people. “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath...
FIVE QUESTIONS ABOUT SANCTIFICATION AND GOOD WORKS: HOW DOES SANCTIFICATION DIFFER FROM JUSTIFICATION? By Pastor Kevin DeYoung
Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of posts in the Reformed blogosphere related to sanctification and good works. I won’t attempt to survey all the relevant posts, but the main ones include: John Piper’s Foreword to Tom Schreiner’s new book where Piper...
GOD’S WONDROUS WORD by Pastor Scott Henry
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness…” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). The Word of God comes not from the mind of men, "for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will,...
HOW SHOULD CHRISTIANS VIEW WORLD HISTORY? By Dr. R.C. SPROUL
“What goes around, comes around.” This American idiom suggests a view of history that has more in common with ancient Greek philosophy than with the Judeo-Christian understanding of history. The grand difference between the ancient view of history and that found in...
NOT IN PART BUT THE WHOLE by Pastor Tim Challies
Sometimes it is the unexpected things that get you. Sometimes it is the words you have heard or said or sung a hundred times over that suddenly leap off the page—words like “My sin, not in part but the whole.” The words come, of course, from the much-loved hymn “It Is...
DEATH AND JUDGMENT by Pastor Scott Henry
“And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). The death of a loved one, a friend, a relative, or a neighbor ought to cause each of us to stop and reflect upon our own mortality. “For what is your life? It is even a vapor...
A MARK OF A CHRISTIAN by Pastor Scott Henry
“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD!” (Psalm 119:1) To walk in the Law of the Lord means that God’s Word directs your steps and informs all your decisions. It means your practice is to deal with every situation in life according to...
HOW TO DISTINGUISH THE HOLY SPIRIT FROM THE SERPENT By Dr. Sinclair Ferguson
How do we distinguish the promptings of the Spirit of grace in His guiding and governing of our lives from the delusions of the spirit of the world and of our own sinful heart? This is a hugely important question if we are to be calm and confident that the spirit with...
TRUSTING GOD By Dr. Paul David Tripp
David writes, "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." (Psalm 139:13-14) These two verses remind us of the importance of finding our identity in God as Creator. The Lord...
DOING GOOD TO ALL By Pastor Scott Henry
“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10). Regarding the 8th Commandment, the Heidelberg Catechism, Q&A 111, reads as follows: “But what does God require of you in this...