Activate Your Sanctified Imagination

What we refer to as the Golden Rule had appeared in other places before Jesus stated it but always in a negative form, such as, “Do not do to others what you would not like

Thanksgiving in Everything, Not for Everything

The apostle Paul exhorts, “In everything give thanks” (1 Thess 5:18a). Paul lives and commands a life of thankfulness for all followers of Christ. Often, upon reading this verse, our minds immediately begin devising ways

Spurgeon on How True Humility Produces Holy Confidence

Below are excerpts from C.H. Spurgeon’s excellent sermon titled Pride and Humility (New Park Street, 1856).C.H. Spurgeon, (1856). “Pride and Humility,” in The New Park Street Pulpit Sermons (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1856), 2:350-352.

C.H. Spurgeon’s Encouragement for Pastors, Young and Old

Below are excerpts from C.H. Spurgeon’s “A Sermon Upon One Nothing by Another Nothing,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 25 (London: Passmore and Alabaster), 85-96. The entire sermon is great gospel encouragement for

The Indispensable Value of Christ-Centered Courage

Something that my wife and I constantly tell our children is that giftedness and intelligence are vastly overrated. We also tell them that hard work, discipline, and convictional courage is vastly underrated. We tend to

9 Lessons I Learned about Church Planting

1. Extending family is the best form of church planting. Among the church planters I know, many are planting out of discontentment and even discouragement. For one reason or another, not always wrong or bad,

Death On a Leash

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. […] Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown! (D.L. Moody)

Pastor, Do Not Neglect your Little Church at Home

Puritan William Perkins is said to have referred to the family and the Christian household as a “little church.” In somewhat of a similar vein, Lewis Bayly taught, “what the preacher is in the pulpit,

Legalism Does Not Work

Legalism does not work, never has, and never will. Legalism is the pursuit of good works, obedience to God’s law and the ethical commands of the Bible (and beyond), abstracted from faith in Christ, in