What are your expectations when you come to worship? Do you anticipate hearing an edifying sermon? Do you look forward to singing favorite songs or seeing friends? Are you eager to come to the weekly services of the church? Or has worship...
A Minister’s Burden What contradictions meetIn ministers’ employ!It is a bitter sweet,A sorrow full of joy:No other post affords a placeFor equal honor or disgrace. Who can describe the painWhich faithful preachers feel,Constrained...
In his Politics According to the Bible, Wayne Grudem distills what a key biblical text teaches about government: God has appointed the authorities who have governmental power (vv. 1-2). This idea is also supported by...
Charles Spurgeon writes, “The doctrine of the covenant lies at the root of all true theology. It has been said that he who well understands the distinction between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, is a master of divinity. I...
I find that I need continual reminders of the dreadful reality the lost will face in eternity. Jesus came to seek them. He left heaven to win them to salvation. I was blessed by these words from Spurgeon that my dear fellow pastor came and shared...
I fear the current consensus on friendship, community, belonging, or relational satisfaction is quite skewed. This skewed understanding too often results in a premature departure from one community to another in order to seek out a sense of...