Five Crucial Things for Sunday Morning

by Jeffrey Stivason • November 27, 2015
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I love to see families walking through the doors of the auditorium on Lord's Day morning.  I see each of them as a living stone coming together to form a living temple in order to worship the living God.  They were once like the dry bones of Ezekiel's vision scattered about in the valley of the shadow of death. 

I love to see families walking through the doors of the auditorium on Lord's Day morning.  I see each of them as a living stone coming together to form a living temple in order to worship the living God.  They were once like the dry bones of Ezekiel's vision scattered about in the valley of the shadow of death.  But now, by God's sovereign grace, they have spiritual muscle, saintly sinew, and a renewed and healthy heart beats within each breast.  These belong to Christ and they are glorious to behold.

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The Captain’s Last Sermon - Part Five

By James Boice

THEME: Remaining Faithful to the End

This week’s lessons describe Joshua’s last address to the Israelites, which emphasizes their need to determine to choose each and every day to serve the Lord.

SCRIPTURE:
Joshua 24:1-33

Those were Israel’s three choices if they did not want to worship the Lord. Joshua says, "Make your choice. You’ve got the gods of Egypt, the gods of Babylon, the gods of Canaan, or the God of Israel. What will it be? You have to choose. You have to go on choosing. But as for me and my house, we are going to choose God." Now the people made their choice, which seemed easy. After all, God had given them the land. Why shouldn't they worship God? That's the way they reply in verses 16-18: “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods!

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The Bird and the Butterfly

Posted 11/27/15 by Donald Barnhouse

A large home had fine plate-glass windows that looked out on a beautiful garden. A bird outside tried to catch a butterfly that was inside; the bird flew against the window while the butterfly flew up and down trying to get away. The butterfly could not see the glass and expected at every moment to be caught; the bird did not see the glass and expected at every moment to catch its prey; yet the butterfly was as safe as though a wall of stone were between them.

The Bird and the Butterfly

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The Captain’s Last Sermon - Part Four

By James Boice

THEME: The Need to Make the Right Choice

This week’s lessons describe Joshua’s last address to the Israelites, which emphasizes their need to determine to choose each and every day to serve the Lord.

SCRIPTURE:
Joshua 24:1-33

Joshua’s challenge to them is to choose God. I mentioned when we were talking about Joshua 22 and 23 that this has been his challenge all along. "You must make a decision," he’s saying. "You must choose to serve God." For the first time here in chapter 24, the word “choose” occurs: "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether it’s the gods your forefathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord" (v. 15).

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The Carpenter's Children

Posted 11/26/15 by Donald Barnhouse

A missionary in Central America once preached on the subject of universal brotherhood. At the close of his address, two professors from a local school said that they thought they had found a flaw in his reasoning. Were not all individuals of the human race descended from Adam and Eve? And did not God create Adam and Eve? And therefore, were not all individuals thereby the children of God? The missionary pointed to the benches in the room and asked, "Who made these benches?"

The Carpenter’s Children

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The Fruits of the Spirit

by Dr. David Murray • November 25, 2015

A few weeks ago, I was stunned by the beautiful vineyards that filled the Vineland area of the Niagara region in Ontario. So much time, so much money, and so much effort must have been poured into these vines in order to produce the innumerable rich and juicy grape clusters. Beautiful fields full of beautiful vines full of beautiful fruit. But come with me to the fields of Scripture, especially Galatians 5, where we find trees, and fruit that are even more beautiful, even more valuable, and even more useful.

A few weeks ago, I was stunned by the beautiful vineyards that filled the Vineland area of the Niagara region in Ontario. So much time, so much money, and so much effort must have been poured into these vines in order to produce the innumerable rich and juicy grape clusters. Beautiful fields full of beautiful vines full of beautiful fruit.

But come with me to the fields of Scripture, especially Galatians 5, where we find trees, and fruit that are even more beautiful, even more valuable, and even more useful.

New Fruits

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The Self Defending Bible

by Mark Johnston • November 25, 2015
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Yesterday I was with some fellow-ministers for our monthly fraternal. Our current focus for discussion is Tim Keller’s book on preaching and we were looking at his chapter on ‘Preaching the Word’.

 

 

Yesterday I was with some fellow-ministers for our monthly fraternal. Our current focus for discussion is Tim Keller’s book on preaching[1] and we were looking at his chapter on ‘Preaching the Word’. Its key thought is our need as preachers to grasp that the power and authority of God himself are inherent in the Bible, not in ourselves and our own eloquence.

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What has Mussolini to do with Huss?

Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

Il Duce wrote a short but interesting book on Huss which sheds light on the development of the Italian Fascist's political thought.

I recently had the pleasure of doing a double act with my old friend, Bruce Gordon, of Yale Divinity School, at the launch of the new journal, Unio cum Christo.  Bruce's lecture (on Calvin and Bullinger) and mine on Benito Mussolini's little known biography of the Bohemian reformer, John Huss, are both available here.

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The Captain’s Last Sermon - Part Three

By James Boice

THEME: Idolatry Then and Now

This week’s lessons describe Joshua’s last address to the Israelites, which emphasizes their need to determine to choose each and every day to serve the Lord.

SCRIPTURE:
Joshua 24:1-33

Paul wrote that no one does good and no one seeks after God. That's the way God sees the human heart. And if, when God looks down from heaven upon the heart of man, all He sees is that the heart of man is only deceitful and practicing wicked all the time from His perspective, how could God possibly find a little bit of human faith upon which to build unless He Himself had first put it there? This, of course, is what He did in the case of Abraham. Abraham was an idol-worshipper like all the others who lived in Ur. But God appeared to him, and revealed Himself to him. God then placed faith in Abraham’s heart and brought Abraham out of that idolatry and set him upon a path, which in God’s own providence and by God’s own power eventually produced the Jewish nation.

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Meeting at the Corner

Posted 11/25/15 by Donald Barnhouse

Several years ago a fad among teen­agers was a series of jokes, a play upon words or lines spoken by one inanimate object to another. One day one of my children came to me with this one: "Do you know what one wall said to the other?" As a good father should, I did not attempt to guess the answer, but replied dutifully, "No. You tell me what one wall said to the other." The answer came crisply, "I'll meet you at the corner."

Meeting at the Corner

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