What Preachers Can Learn from Spurgeon’s Sermons "During his prime, Spurgeon often preached ten or more times per week. His powers of oratory, imagination, and recollection proved a fierce combination, holding his listeners’ rapt attention.
The Unholy Impulse of Bitterness and Anger (Kuyper) Drawing from a devotion on Psalm 73:28 by Abraham Kuyper, this post attacks the attitudes that lead to bitterness. Don’t Wait Until You Feel Like It "Sometimes
Gospel-Fueled, Spirit-Wrought Gumption "As Christians, we are rightly concerned with living in such a way that magnifies the grace of God. We don’t want to be those who fall into works righteousness or Pharisaism, but
When My Old Testament Became Christian "Furthermore, did I rightly see that God designed the whole Old Testament to move us to magnify the Messiah, savoring Jesus as the climax of Old Testament history (Mark
Are You a Good Chef with Your Words? "Our world glamorizes and gravitates towards the big moments, the big events, the wins with numbers. There’s nothing wrong with these, but anyone who does something worthwhile
The Joy of Singing with Jesus "The Psalter (the five books of psalms) centers on the figure of the Davidic king and is incomplete without the presence of “great David’s greater son,” the Lord Jesus,
“All Sunshine Makes a Desert” "When life is going well, we can get complacent. People who get everything they want and have everything just the way they like it sometimes start to feel entitled." Let
The Most Dangerous Thing a Christian Can Do In this blog post, Tim Challies points out that the must dangerous thing a Christian can do is quite subtle, which is why it's terrifying. Afraid of
Rules for Preacher’s Conduct This post was written over 250 years ago by Isaac Watts, but still has relevance for preachers today. The Pursuit of (Which) Happiness? "The question of which kind of happiness we’re
Wisdom is Work "The mature are those who have powers of discernment, trained. The wisdom to tell the difference between true and false, right and wrong, wise and foolish, requires training." How Pastors Can Glorify Christ, Every