Which Catechism Should I Use?

A few weeks ago, my wife reminded me of an experience early in our marriage that set the stage for my love of catechisms. We were speaking with a husband and wife who were Jehovah's Witness in our home, and the wife shared her testimony of why she left her Methodist upbringing to join the …

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | A Sermon by Jonathan Edwards

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZMaVV9GbsO9q1Rg44TwF3?si=8328a9b7991d4fef Their foot shall slide in due time. Deuteronomy 32:35 In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God’s visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God’s wonderful works towards them, remained (as Deut. 32:28.) void of counsel, having no …

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Question 16: What Is Sin?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hWHVZcKXsVMBYelVlOgoa?si=d7a9d16631384c39 Although God’s law is good and although obedience to God’s law leads to a life of joy and blessing, we are unable to keep His commandments because of the sinful nature that we have inherited from our forefather, Adam. When he committed the original sin, he plunged all of humanity into a world of …

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Learning the Bible Alongside Your Children

School kicked back into session this past week. After thinking through education options, Tiff and I became convinced that the classical Christian approach would be worth trying, and for going on three years, Classical Conversations has been making that hope into a reality. While the task of homeschooling is daunting, we keep ourselves grounded with …

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Let Us Leave the Elementary Doctrine of Christ | Hebrews 5:11-6:3

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives …

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The Word a Sword | A Sermon by Charles Spurgeon

My decision to preach Hebrews 4:12-13 within the same sermon as verses 1-11 obviously meant leaving much upon the cutting room floor, yet this sermon from the Prince of Preachers on Hebrews 4:12 will hopefully be a sufficient supplement. Whether you listen to my reading or read the text yourself below, I pray that you …

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Strive to Enter That Rest | Hebrews 4:1-13

https://youtu.be/vPvYVelbUM4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who …

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Today, If You Hear His Voice, Do Not Harden Your Heart | Hebrews 3:7-19

https://youtu.be/qoK_PupL7b8 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,            on the day of testing in the wilderness,where your fathers put me to the test            and saw my works for forty years.Therefore I was provoked with that generation,and said, ‘They always go astray in …

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A Key That Opens the Book of Job

Recently, Banner of Truth released the completed three-volume set of John Calvin's sermons on the book of Job. Freshly translated by Rob Roy McGregor, the first two volumes are reprinted from earlier publication and released alongside the newly published third volume. Since Calvin is one of my dearest of study companions as well as a …

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You Search the Scriptures | John 5:39-40

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. John 5:39-40 ESV The Pharisees of Jesus’ day held the Scriptures in high esteem. They believed them to be the …

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