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
Departing from God, and indulging ourselves in sinning against him, is a kind of exchange, but it is a foolish one; it is an exchange of liberty for drudgery and slavery, of peace of conscience
How to Avoid Individualism When Listening to Sermons "It may sound strange at first, but if you want to transform the way you hear sermons, stop listening only for yourself and start listening for your
Conversion is a marriage wherein (with reverence be it spoken) Christ resigns up himself, with all he is and has, to us, and we resign ourselves, with all we are and have, to him. Such
7 Tips for Getting More out of Sunday Sermons "What if we opened our Bibles each Sunday expecting a taste like honey and a treasure like gold (Deut. 32:47; Ps. 19:10)? What would it look like