Moving Beyond The Milk

Quoting Keith Mathison: In the early centuries of the church’s existence, Christian apologists would sometimes appeal to the distinctively holy lives of Christians as evidence for the truth of Christianity. Would such an appeal be of any use today? According to numerous surveys, the behavior of professing Christians is not discernibly different from the behavior [...]

George Washington On The National Debt

Quoting George Washington, December 3, 1793: “No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. … Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions [...]

What Power Does God Have Over Evil Actions?

Providence is an effective, all-comprehensive, divine agency that touches every event in the physical and spiritual world. Many of God’s saints, in the hardest and darkest times of their lives, have had peace by their understanding of and faith in the Lord’s providential care. The Lord God omnipotent reigns! B.H. Carroll (1843-1914) explains further: If [...]

In The Hands Of A Holy God

From the desk of R. C. Sproul: The problem is simply this: If God is just and requires perfection from me and I come short of that perfection and he is going to deal with me according to justice, then I am looking at a future punishment at the hands of a holy God. If [...]

We Call Them Patriots

From the desk of columnist Cal Thomas: “While tea party critics are re-reading the Constitution, they should also consult the Declaration of Independence. That philosophical foundation of the Constitution reserves the right of the people to change their government when it no longer serves the interests of its citizens. The Declaration outlined the proper relationship [...]

Salvation’s Need Of The Scripture

There is no doubt that faith needs the Word of God just as fruit needs the living root of a tree. The knowledge of God is not the product of anyone’s imagination, but only what God reveals to us in the Bible. So there is a relationship between faith and the Word which leads to [...]

Transforming Life

Quoting Albert N. Martin: B. B. Warfield describes Calvinism as ‘that sight of the majesty of God that pervades all of life and all of experience’. In particular as it relates to the doctrine of salvation its glad confession is summarized in those three pregnant words, God saves sinners. Now whenever we are confronted with [...]

Ronald Reagan: Our Rights Are Not A Dispensation Of Government

Quoting President Ronald Reagan: “Now it doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? And [...]

Discerning God’s Will For You

If you study the operations of the Holy Spirit, you will notice that He always guides us by sending us to the Word of God and His Providence. Between the two, they will lead us to the path we should choose. We can certainly say, in general, that after serious deliberation and earnest supplication, if [...]

Charles Spurgeon On The Will

From the desk of Charles Spurgeon: Blessed be the God of grace that it is so! He has a people whom He has chosen from of old to be His peculiar portion. These by nature have wills as stubborn as the rest of the froward sons of Adam; but when the day of His power [...]

John Jay On The Bible

Quoting John Jay – 1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: “By conveying the Bible to people thus circumstanced, we certainly do them a most interesting kindness. We thereby enable them to learn that man was originally created and placed in a state of happiness, but, becoming disobedient, was subjected to the degradation and [...]

God Comes To Man

The Advent season is upon us. Christmas will arrive all too soon. However, it is possible to miss the spiritual benefits of this time we have set aside to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. How will you take part in this Advent and Christmas season? What do you hope to experience? John M. Buchanan [...]

Entering into Mystical Union

Quoting R. C. Sproul The Christian life is lived in the context of mystical union with Christ. This union finds its initial origin in eternity. Our salvation is from the foundation of the world, resting in the grace of God’s sovereign election. Paul indicates this in Ephesians 1:3-6. It is in the Beloved that our [...]

Patrick Henry: A Nation Founded On The Gospel Of Jesus Christ

  Patrick Henry – Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom [...]

Family Church

From the writings of Charles H. Spurgeon: Is there a Church in this house? Are parents, children, friends, servants, all members of it? or are some still unconverted? Let us pause here and let the question go round-Am I a member of the Church in this house? How would father’s heart leap for joy, and [...]

The Press and Religion

From the desk of Chuck Colson: The United States is often referred to as a “post-Christian” nation. In one sense, that is true: The moral and cultural assumptions shaped by Christianity that used to hold sway in American society, can no longer be taken for granted. They must be defended and contended for in the [...]

Alexander Hamilton On The Evidence For Christianity

Quoting Alexander Hamilton – Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution: “I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any [...]

Do Not Measure Your Condition By The Condition Of Others

Why die in your sins? Is sin so sweet that you cannot give it up? Is worldliness so satisfying that you cannot forsake it? Is being a servant of Satan so pleasant? Does your soul mean so little to you? Come to Christ now before it is too late! God is grieved when He sees [...]

Thoughts on Why Everything Exists

Quoting John Piper: One of the main points of the forthcoming book, Spectacular Sins and Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ, is that sin and God’s wrath against it were part of God’s plan when he created the world. This is different from saying that God sins or that he approves of sinning. [...]

God Is Our Good!

Have you ever spent time contemplating God as our infinite good, and the fountain of all good? The Christian’s dependency on God, demonstrates God’s all-sufficiency for our needs. The fullness of God’s power and grace demonstrates His merit and worthiness; and our trusting His supply in all things demonstrates the fullness of His beauty, love, [...]

Thanksgiving Meditations

Below is an excerpt from a sermon preached at the Second Baptist Church of Boston by the Rev. Thomas Baldwin (1753-1825). He preached this Thanksgiving Sermon in accordance with the national Thanksgiving Proclamation issued by President George Washington in 1795: Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen [...]

Benjamin Rush On Teaching Children

Quoting Benjamin Rush – Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution: “I know there is an objection among many people to teaching children doctrines of any kind, because they are liable to be controverted. But let us not be wiser than our Maker. If moral precepts alone could have reformed [...]

Ronald Reagan’s 1985 Thanksgiving Proclamation

THANKSGIVING DAY, 1985 Proclamation 5412. November 15, 1985 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION Although the time and date of the first American thanksgiving observance may be uncertain, there is no question but that this treasured custom derives from our Judeo-Christian heritage. Unto Three, O God, do we give thanks, [...]

Only The Truth Will Set You Free!

Too many in our day have abandoned the idea of absolute truth – at least as far as morality is concerned. A culture which abandons absolute truth has adopted insanity as its god. Higher education, long ago, bowed its knee to the religion of personal truth. Our young adults have adopted the attitude, “Whatever seems [...]

John Witherspoon On The Best Friend To American Liberty

Quoting John Witherspoon – Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Clergyman, and President of Princeton University: “While we give praise to God, the Supreme Disposer of all events, for His interposition on our behalf, let us guard against the dangerous error of trusting in, or boasting of, an arm of flesh … If your cause [...]