“Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.”—Psal. 4:4. You are assembled together, my dear hearers, that you may learn something concerning your everlasting welfare. I am glad to meet you; and
Daily Vigilance for Lifelong Productivity In this podcast (which is transcribed here), Pastor John Piper, at 80, offers advice for having a lifetime of productivity. Yet he notes, "The real question is how to be
“Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace.”—Rom. 14:19. My dear brethren, in complying with your request to address you, on the present occasion, I shall study plainness of speech. I shall
Pastoral Fortitude: Courage in the Ministry of Word and Prayer "The virtue of fortitude plays a unique role in pastoral ministry. Particularly, it is seen in the ministry of Word and prayer. As the pastor
Once more, It would be profitable to recollect the best parts of our lives, and compare them with what we now are. Think, backsliding Christian, what an effect those sacred truths have had upon your
Five Words in a Known Tongue "God has raised up people in local churches whose job it is to translate the indecipherable verbiage of the scholar into the language of the people. It is pastors,
The question is not concerning any secret persuasions in the mind of man, or any secret purpose in the mind of God; but simply this, Do the Holy Scriptures, which form the statute-book of heaven,
Engaged but Not Alarmed "How, then, should Christians engage the news? We should not look away as though the sufferings of others do not matter. But neither should we consume every crisis, dispute, and controversy as
Some good people have contracted a strange prejudice against the doctrines of the gospel, accounting them dry and uninteresting matters. They like experimental religion the best, they tell us. But I do not understand the
The Ruinous Hatred of Flattery "“Subtle” sins of speech like flattery can be more dangerous than the obvious ones because they don’t tend to register on our radars like other sins do. A temper tantrum