Here is part one of a two part sermon series on Christian joy that I preached this past Sunday (if you prefer, you can listen to it here): Charles Spurgeon, instructing a group of seminary students on sermon delivery, said, “When you speak of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Here’s a great hymn text written in 1709 by Isaac Watts (Tune: Bevan) Jesus, my great High Priest, Offered his blood and died; My guilty conscience seeks No sacrifice beside. His pow’rful blood did once atone, And now it pleads before... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Charles H. Spurgeon, instructing a group of seminary students on sermon delivery, said, “When you speak of heaven, let your face light up with a heavenly gleam. Let your eyes shine with reflected glory. And when you speak of hell–well, then... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
We can appear to love another person on the outside but deep down we only really love them because they make us look good and feel better about ourselves. And that’s counterfeit love. And you know it’s a counterfeit by how you respond when they no... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
It has always been interesting to me that in the opening chapter of Mark’s gospel he mentions Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness but doesn’t record much detail about it and the details he does mention are kind of strange. Here is... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
What is the difference between justification and sanctification? Westminster Larger Catechism Q&A 77: “Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification, yet they differ, in that God in justification imputeth the righteousness of... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
This past Sunday at my church, we started a new round of Psalms for “Psalm of the Month” in the morning and afternoon services. We sing more than one Psalm in each service, but we focus on one Psalm for the whole month in each service as... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Are you a Christian whose heart is set on pilgrim ways, i.e. you look forward to the new heavens and new earth? If so, then you will enjoy a foretaste of the new creation on the Lord’s Day with God’s people tomorrow in public worship and... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Here are some great quotes from C.S. Lewis that I read in Michael Horton’s book, The Christian Faith: “What this means is that we who once were curved in on ourselves, seeing the world but not really seeing it rightly, must be called out... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
This is the first point of a sermon I recently preached in two parts entitled “We Believe: The Doctrine of True Faith.” The first thing that we confess about faith is that faith is a gift from God. Saving faith is not something that we... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
