by admin | Sep 24, 2016 | Blog, Book of the Month
Chapter One Though God uses many means to draw His children to Himself, true conversion always begins with the conviction of personal sin and God’s deserved judgment on that sin. If you are a believer today, what was it that first made you aware of the “wrath to...
by admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Blog, Friday Findings
One Very Good Reason to Read Your Bible “[T]he benefit of personal devotions goes far beyond self. The benefit of knowledge of God and intimacy with God extends to your family, to your neighbors, to your church. If you can’t or won’t do devotions for your own sake,...
by admin | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
[T]hough good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and...
by admin | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
is the study of the way that words are arranged into phrases, clauses, and sentences. While most people do not use the term all that often to talk about English, scholars use it extensively in discussions of the original languages. While words in Greek or Hebrew often...
by admin | Sep 20, 2016 | Articles, Blog
The so-called “God of the Old Testament” gets a bad rap in contemporary society. According to some, this “God of the Old Testament,” was mean and judgmental, hurling thunderbolts left and right, withholding mercy and delighting in destruction. Now of course our...
by admin | Sep 19, 2016 | And I Quote..., Blog
Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian” became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could be saved, and yet living no differently than an unbeliever day after day. In their lives there would be no hunger and thirst for...
by admin | Sep 17, 2016 | Blog
Our book for the remainder of September and the month of October will be Pilgrim’s Progress, in the beautiful edition put out by Crossway. An enduring classic, Bunyan’s famous allegory of the Christian life has been treasured by believers for well over 300...
by admin | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog, Friday Findings
Be Bold Enough to Follow The Truth As Far as It Takes You: “What we need are bold Christians—Christians bold enough to disappoint anybody necessary for the contending of the faith… What we need are Christians so committed to Christ, that they will go to their crosses...
by admin | Sep 15, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
It is better to love God than the world. If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy. You may as well satisfy your body with air as your soul with earth! If the globe of the world were yours, it would not fill your soul. Will you set your love on...
by admin | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
Is the practice of reading into a text a meaning that is foreign to it. It is an invented term formed by replacing the Greek preposition ex, meaning out of, with the preposition eis meaning “into.” It is usually used as a contrast to exegesis, “the art and science of...
