A strategy for living

…what we have here in this psalm [Psalm 27] is what we may well call ‘a strategy for living’, how to face the battle and the conflict in life.…we must always start in heaven and with God. Then, having done that, we come down to earth and face the problems of life and of living […]

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Don’t be like everybody else

Martyn Lloyd-Jones: It should not be our ambition to be as much like everybody else as we can, though we happen to be Christian, but rather to be as different from everybody who is not a Christian as we can possibly be.  Our ambition should be to be like Christ, the more like Him the […]

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Hope in God

Three times the Psalmist says in Psalms 42-43 that he should hope in God.  He says this as a reminder to himself because he is in despair.  He is discouraged and distraught — even brought to tears (Ps. 42:5) by a variety of pressures and burdens:  attacks from critics who deny the reality of God […]

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Justification defined

But this is the amazing message, and this is what is meant by justification – that God tells us that, as the result of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, because of his life, his death and his resurrection, if we believe on him and trust ourselves solely and entirely to him, God pardons […]

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Grab bag

Some helpful articles from the last week or two: Ten “Wives Speak Out” about their role in marriage and their practice of submission in their marriages. I find myself gravitating more to biographies these days — and here are two new ones on theologian Charles Hodge that appear interesting. Kevin DeYoung takes a closer look […]

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