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Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, In his book "Old Paths," J.C. Ryle describes three ways a person can ruin his or her soul, this being the third: "For another thing, you may starve your soul to death by triflin...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, As we embark on the final chapters of John, on Sunday I said I would be framing each sermon between now and the crucifixion of Jesus with 2 Corinthians 5:21, "For He [God the Fa...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, The biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish pastor, 1813-1843, by Andrew Bonar, begins with a biography of his life, and then includes many of his letters and some of his ...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, We are now in John 17 in our study of the Gospel of John. Martyn Lloyd-Jones has written a very profitable book on this chapter, a compilation of his sermons on it, and in one o...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, A friend and I are reading John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" together, and finding it very worthwhile. Check out this exchange between the characters Prudence and Christian...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, A few weeks ago, Hensworth Jonas preached three wonderful messages on holiness at Hope Baptist Church. Here is what he said about that great Day when God will judge the living a...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, So far, I have posted: - An introduction, in which I stated the premise that the term "Evangelical" has become increasingly meaningless. - A baseline, providing J.C. Ryle's defi...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, If you want the full version - which is the best version - you can read it here. But if you aren't ready to invest that amount of time at the moment, here is a summary of how J....
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, What do I mean by "a bygone definition"? That what "evangelical" means today is very different than what it meant more than a century ago. To make the point, I offer the first c...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, A generation or more ago, the term "evangelical" was a highly significant and meaningful term. Today it means little more than "not-Catholic-and-also-not-mainline Protestant," w...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, I have been posting a few quotes from Paul Washer’s “Gospel Assurance & Warnings,” and here is a very hard-hitting one: "...we live in the midst of a twisted romanticism where p...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, Another nugget of gold from Paul Washer’s “Gospel Assurance & Warnings”: "The doctrine of the perseverance of the saints is not a license for sin or a means of giving false assu...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, A brother and I are reading Paul Washer's "Gospel Assurance & Warnings" together, which is essentially a great exposition of the marks of a true Christian from 1 John. Here is a...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, In last week's sermon, the following was quoted from Matthew Henry in relation to Queen Esther's appeal to the king in Esther 8: "Even when we have the utmost reason and justice...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, We are hosting outreaches in the Griffin's parking lot on three consecutive nights: - Thursday, June 22, 7:30-8:30 p.m. - Friday, June 23, 7:30-8:30 p.m. - Saturday, June 24, , ...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, I want to coin a new term: "The Ruby Rule". And what is The Ruby Rule? It is a rule for Christian husbands. Everyone knows The Golden Rule. Our Moms taught it to most of us as s...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, The old writers can be difficult to read, but even so they make use of language in ways virtually unknown to the last few centuries. The unusual word choices drive the meaning h...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, A request that I made in the introduction to my sermon on Psalm 5 this past Sunday was this: Keep in mind the term "practical atheism". Atheism, of course, is the denial of the ...
Dear Sovereign Redeemer and other friends, This blog exists primarily as a way to get what we hope will be timely, encouraging content into the hands (and hearts and minds) of our local church. To whatever extent these t...