Our Worship Is Poor Because Our Knowledge Is Poor

From: The Desk of John Stott The ‘message’ is God’s own Word. For the people have not gathered to hear a human being, but to meet with God. They desire like Mary of Bethany to sit at the feet of Jesus and listen to his teaching. They are spiritually hungry. The bread they desire is [...]

One King Will Reign By Charles Spurgeon

God’s good pleasure is, that this world will one day be totally redeemed from sin; God’s good pleasure is, that this poor planet, so long covered in darkness, will soon shine out in brightness, like a new-born sun. Christ’s death has done it. The stream that flowed from His side on Calvary will cleanse the [...]

Quoting Governor Bobby Jindal

Who amongst us would ask our children for a loan so we could spend money we do not have on things we do — we do not need? That is precisely what the Democrats in Congress just did. It’s irresponsible. And it’s no way to strengthen our economy, create jobs, or build a prosperous future [...]

A Contented Man Is Thankful

Quoting Arthur W. Pink: Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is “content” with such as [...]

Not Rich – But Stupid!

Quoting Columnist Mark Steyn: “2008: We’re rich enough that we can afford to be stupid. 2009: We’re not so rich so let’s be even more stupid. The Obama narrative as packaged by the American media (another all-but-bankrupt industry, not coincidentally) is very appealing. Wouldn’t it be so much nicer if a benign paternalist sovereign could [...]

Always Obey The Impulse To Pray

From: The Desk of Martyn Lloyd-Jones Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this – always obey such an impulse. Where does it come from? It is the work of [...]

Washington’s War On God

Spurgeon On Imitating Christ

Quoting Charles Spurgeon: My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in “public.” Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined-taken to pieces. The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed [...]

False Conversions By Ronald Reagan

“Bitter as it is to accept the results of the November election, we should have reason for some optimism. For many years now we have preached ‘the gospel,’ in opposition to the philosophy of so-called liberalism, which was, in truth, a call to collectivism. Now, it is possible we have been persuasive to a greater [...]

Finding The Power To Live

Do you grow impatient with God sometimes? I know I do. After all, no one wishes to wait when they believe they have “important matters” that need to be taken care of. We live in an “instant answer” culture. What we expect, we expect immediately. We live by our own self-centered priorities. Waiting requires submission [...]

Nurse Suspended From Job After Offering To Pray For Patient’s Recovery

The Telegraph.co.uk reports that Caroline Petrie, a Christian, is accused by her employers of failing to demonstrate a “personal and professional commitment to equality and diversity.” She could lose her job over the incident. Mrs Petrie, a married mother of two, says she has been left shocked and upset by the action taken against her. [...]

Choosing To Be Miserable

Quoting Robert Leighton: “The Christian and the carnal man are most wonderful to each other. The one wonders to see the other walk so strictly, and deny himself to those carnal liberties that the most take…. And the Christian thinks it strange that men should be so bewitched, and still remain children in the vanity [...]

The Answers Are Simple But Not Easy By Ronald Reagan

“For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children and told there are no simple answers to the complex problems which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is, there are simple answers — they just are not easy ones. The time has come for us to decide whether collectively we can [...]

Who Will Tell The People?

From: The Desk of John Piper Christian preachers, more than all others, should know that people are starving for God. If anyone in all the world should be able to say, “I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary, beholding thy power and glory,” it is the herald of God. Who but preachers will look [...]

Hypocrisy And Big Government Spending

From: The Desk of Gary Bauer President Obama had some harsh words [recently] over a reported $18 billion in corporate bonuses paid out last year. His populist rhetoric may have even gotten a few conservatives to nod approvingly, but don’t fall for it, my friends. It was nothing more than the typical liberal appeal to [...]

In A Manner Becoming The Gospel

Quoting Albert Barnes: “In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).”

The Loss Of Limited Government

Quoting James Madison: “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one….”

Walking Where The Way Is Good

Have you ever been told to do something because it is good for you? Did you verbally say “Yes,” while your heart was saying “No”? I have done this many times in my life – even after becoming a Christian. Therefore, you know that I am a sinner saved by the mercy of God’s grace. [...]

Blissful Ignorance Of Radical Islam

Quoting Kathy Shaidle: Today many Americans are either blissfully ignorant of, or simply indifferent to, the slow, incremental growth of radical Islam in their midst. We sometimes hear about terrorist cells or suspicious Muslim “compounds” on the news. However, these stories represent merely the tip of an Islamic iceberg that could very well doom America. [...]

Drawing Near To Christ

Quoting Richard Sibbes: We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God’s ways we go out of His government, and so lose our good frame of mind, and find ourselves overspread quickly with a contrary disposition. When we draw near to [...]

A Letter To My Daughter

Quoting Elias Boudinot: “You have been instructed from your childhood in the knowledge of your lost state by nature – the absolute necessity of a change of heart and an entire renovation of soul to the image of Jesus Christ – of salvation through His meritorious righteousness only – and the indispensable necessity of personal [...]

Preaching Sovereign Grace

From: The Desk of John Piper My burden is to plead for the supremacy of God in preaching — that the dominant note of preaching be the freedom of God’s sovereign grace, the unifying theme be the zeal that God has for his own glory, the grand object of preaching be the infinite and inexhaustible [...]

The Manipulation Of Tolerance

Quoting John Hawkins: Despite America’s inspirational legacy, this has not always been an exceptionally tolerant nation and there are few Americans who would deny that. That being said, we’ve now gone so far in the opposite direction that it has become problematic as well. Tolerance taken to an extreme has actually impeded our ability to [...]

Make Plain What Is Obscure

From: The Desk of John Stott: All true Christian preaching is expository preaching. . . . To expound Scripture is to bring out of the text what is there and expose it to view. The expositor prizes open what appears to be closed, makes plain what is obscure, unravels what is knotted and unfolds what [...]

God Hears By Charles Spurgeon

Our God is not a god who sits in one perpetual dream; nor does He clothe Himself in such thick darkness that He cannot see; He is not like Baal who does not hear. True, He may not be concerned about battles; He does not care for the pomp and pageantry of kings; He does [...]