A sacrament gives a dramatic sign that points beyond itself to some truth of redemption that is crucial to the life of the people of God.
8:26–27 says: The Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hear...
Who were hypocrites. The image that we have of scribes and Pharisees from the New Testament period is that of unscrupulous, ruthless practitioners of religious deceit. We must bear in mind, however, t...
When I was in seminary I kept a card on my desk that said, You are responsible to believe and to teach what the Bible teaches, not what you would like for it to teach. I realize that when there's some...
We need to learn to read with a comb—that is, developing a value system that gives us the ability to be critical of what we study. Here the word critical does not mean approaching our studies with a n...
To Jerusalem. They must have been giddy: laughing, skipping, and singing the whole way. They recalled the words of Jesus in the upper room of the promise of another Comforter who would come. They were...
Three stanzas says the same thing: May the Lord bless; may the Lord make His face shine; may the Lord lift up His countenance upon you. The Israelite understood blessedness concretely: to be blessed w...
The biblical King both reigns and rules. And He carries out His rule not by referendum but by His personal sovereignty. AN
Road. Icy panic stung her as she stood frozen by indecision. She lifted her eyes toward heaven, looking for guidance. Her eyes did not find
Puntos de discrepancia acerca de temas particulares de debate entre denominaciones, pero lo cual revela una notable unidad de confesión acerca de los puntos
Point-making a decision to follow Jesus has never converted anyone. This is because it is not a decision that converts a person; it is the power of the Holy Spirit that does so. We get into the kingdo...
Pan nuestro de cada día, dánoslo hoy Dios provee para su pueblo. Merece la atención que lo que aquí se pide es el pan diario, no el bistec diario o el costillar de primera calidad diario. Dios suple l...
Of Drs. Clowney, Packer, Sproul, Norman L. Geisler, Harold W. Hoehner, Donald E. Hoke, Roger R. Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard around the clock to prepare a statement that might recei...
Look to the Bible and not my feelings as the basis of the Christian life. I've
Living. Trusted theological resource— Tabletalk avoids trends, shallow doctrine and popular movements to present biblical truth simply and clearly. Thought-provoking topics—each issue contains challen...
If you are not spiritually reborn, you are not a Christian. It is necessary to be reborn to be a Christian.
If God’s sovereignty is limited one ounce by our freedom, He is not sovereign. What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limi...
Here are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that they offer little help in achieving an accurate
Found a liberal Jesus; the existentialists found an existential hero; and the Marxists discovered a political revolutionary. Idealists found an idealistic Jesus and pragmatists discovered a pragmatic...
Faith is central to the motivation of the human heart to live in a way that honors God.