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Of Stars and Black Holes

"Jesus called his people to be salt and light, to shine like stars in the world in their obedience to him."

Written by Alex Nolette | Monday, May 16, 2022

Black holes are formed when stars die. They become like Dyson vacuums, sucking up all the mass and matter around them, exhibiting a gravitational pull so strong that even light particles cannot escape. A black hole’s existence is dependent upon the consumption of everything around it. Likewise, humanity’s selfish heart sucks up everything God created good... Continue Reading

The Balance of God’s Grace – Part 2

Grace has a call toward increasing Christlikeness, which we refer to as personal sanctification.

Written by Kevin Carson and Jeff Christianson | Sunday, May 15, 2022

We desire to understand God’s grace in balance. If we only think of the comfort of God’s grace, we miss that grace has a direction and agenda. If we only consider the call of God’s grace, we end up being legalistic, list-oriented, and evaluating our relationship with God almost exclusively by our spiritual resume of service. Yet, both are... Continue Reading

Elders in the New Testament: Occasional Letters

Elders are involved even in the training and launching of others into Christ-honoring ministry.

Written by Jacob Toman | Sunday, May 15, 2022

The Christian elder in the first century church had responsibility to serve under Christ’s authority, caring for the people of Christ, providing Godly conflict resolution, decision making, teaching, preaching, administrating, praying, serving the sick, and diligently working up a Christ-like sweat while seeking the good of Christ’s people.    Last post we began to discuss... Continue Reading

Practical Ways to Teach Your Children to Pray

Your attitude about prayer is important in building a foundation of prayer for your children. 

Written by Joseph Scarfone | Sunday, May 15, 2022

Remember to model for them, but also give them opportunities to pray alongside you. James Dobson rightly concludes, “There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.” When you teach your children to pray you are giving them a greater opportunity for a close relationship with God.     ... Continue Reading

Judge Not

We are not to hold one standard for ourselves and another standard for someone else. That’s called hypocrisy.

Written by Stan Gale | Sunday, May 15, 2022

In a Christian family it is not only the children who must abide by the law of God but the parents must as well, even though they are the ones who exercise discipline. We are all sinners in need of grace. None of us occupies the high moral ground. Any judgment on our part must be... Continue Reading

Defective Evangelism

The chief work of the evangelist, is to preach upon SIN.

Written by Arthur Pink | Sunday, May 15, 2022

As Christ’s salvation is a salvation from sin, from the love of it, from its dominion, from its guilt and penalty; then it necessarily follows, that the first great task and the chief work of the evangelist, is to preach upon SIN: to define what sin (as distinct from crime) really is, to show wherein its infinite enormity consists,... Continue Reading

Faith in Princes

Elon is neither your enemy nor your savior.

Written by Spencer Klavan | Sunday, May 15, 2022

I don’t think he’s trying to fool us about what he believes, and I don’t think we’re fooling ourselves, either. The friends of freedom always have to build coalitions. Those coalitions always come with risks, some of them severe. But we take them knowingly because we understand this fallen world, and because we are not... Continue Reading

Got the Lot?

Life turns upside down, most stresses and voices yield a counsel of despair.

Written by Andrew Kerr | Sunday, May 15, 2022

The marvel of the Gospel is how we come to share such hope! Just like the lost, we, like the rest, deserve to incinerate. “There go I, but for the grace of God!”It is by Sovereign Grace alone, and the Cross of Christ, where fanned-up wrath of the Father’s fire and brimstone scorched, that we,... Continue Reading

What Makes a Sermon Difficult to Listen to

Preachers can assist listening and comprehension by providing some kind of an outline.

Written by Tim Challies | Saturday, May 14, 2022

Commentaries are crucial when it comes to properly understanding a text. Preachers rightly spend a good bit of their prep time learning from experts through their commentaries. But there aren’t many occasions when the preacher should quote these experts. To read a quote from a commentary, and especially at length, is to radically change the... Continue Reading

Superiors, Inferiors, and Equals

Humbly resting in who we are in the community of faith smacks so hard against our arrogantly individualistic culture.

Written by Benjamin Glaser | Saturday, May 14, 2022

Regardless of which category we fall into the first issue at hand is what do we do with the place the Lord has granted to us in His purpose. If we are a Superior are we encouraging biblical fidelity among those in our purview? If not we are sinning against them. John Flavel in his... Continue Reading

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