By Douglas Wilson Dear Janelle, I received your letter yesterday, and had already heard from your brother and sister-in-law. They confirmed for me the very difficult and challenging situation you are in with your husband, and they said that they had encouraged you to write to me with your question. I was glad to hear […]
Excerpt from Toby’s Palm Sunday sermon. “When Jesus calls a man, it is abundantly clear that He demands everything. But this is good news because only Jesus knows what it will take to eradicate our sin. He must take our colts; He must overturn our tables; He must die. What is He doing? He’s healing us (Mt. 21:14).” […]
Dawson Trotman, founder of the Navigators, visited the Naval Academy during my first-class year. On a Sunday afternoon, he spoke to about twenty Christian midshipmen in Memorial Hall. He was a dynamic speaker. At the end of his talk, he said he would like to talk with those of us who really meant business with […]
By Kenton Spratt, Pastor Christ Church, Spokane, WA 14. What is sin? Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God. 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created? The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were […]
by Matt Meyer Renae and I enjoy listening to a podcast by the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Albert Mohler, called “The Briefing”. In it Mohler analyzes current events and news from a Christian World View in tight, daily, 20 minute episodes. This week, one of the news bits was linked to a […]
By Lisa Leidenfrost “Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: “He is like a man building a house, who laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock“ (Luke 6:47,48). A rock […]
By Heath Lambert After Darkness, Light: Christians and Counseling in the Twenty-First Century Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, in October 1517. He was concerned that the Roman Catholic practice of indulgences undermined Scripture and its teaching on grace and genuine repentance. His act would […]
Bakw Mission Update from Leidenfrosts We finished the New Testament! Csaba told me that this afternoon they would be finishing up with the last chapter of Matthew. This finishes off the checking of the New Testament which is to us a milestone of a life’s work. As they were coming into the finish, one of […]
The following came from Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel. Translated and Edited by Theodore G. Tappert TO MR. AND MRS. MATTHIAS KNUDSEN. October 21, 1531 John Knudsen, “of the diocese of Schleswig” near the border of present-day Denmark, was matriculated in the university in Wittenberg on June 7, 1529, and was in all probability the […]
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