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Godly Character Requires Spiritual Discipline
People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise...
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Getting to the Heart of Legalism
I was reading today in Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God and came across some excellent thoughts on legalism from Sam Storms who wrote, “I’m baffled continually at how easily...
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An Inventory of Spiritual Fruit
Fruit-bearing is not a matter of being strong or weak, good or bad, brave or cowardly, clever or foolish, experienced or inexperienced. Whatever your gifts, accomplishments, or virtues, they cannot...
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Four Temptations: How Internet Habits Can Cripple Book Reading
View at WTSBooks Below are some excellent thoughts from Lit! by Tony Reinke. More on Christian Reading & Literature Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing by Leland...
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R.C. Sproul on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
More on Prayer All of our warfare and all of our activity must take place in the context of constant, unceasing prayer. Just as a soldier on the battle line has to keep in constant communication with...
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Let the Reader Understand: Guide to Interpreting and Applying the Bible
Let the Reader Understand Do you struggle to understand the Bible? Have you tried to read the scripture, but don’t really understand where to start? This is one of the biggest hindrances to faithful...
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The ULTIMATE Reading Chair
The Ultimate Reading Chair Here is the ULTIMATE reading chair! And you can’t have the ultimate chair without some excellent books. Here are a few books every Christian should read – about reading...
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The Importance of Grammar in Biblical Exegesis
Biblical Exegesis “An evangelical believes that God humbled himself not only in the incarnation of the Son, but also in the inspiration of the Scriptures. The manger and the cross were not sensational....
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Teaching Your Children to Pray
Learn More about Prayer Parents, if you love your children, do all that lies within your power to train them to have a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what to say. Encourage them to...
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Bible Study by Arthur W. Pink
Bible Overview by Steve Levy One to One Bible Reading: A Simple Guide for Every Christian by David Helm Bible Study: Following the Ways of the Word by Kathleen Nielson How to Read the Bible for All...
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Sexual Sin Never Begins by Accident.
“Sexual sin never begins by accident. People do not suddenly fall into an illicit sexual act simply by having an opportunity confront them. There is always some specific preparation. This preparation...
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The Presence of God Qualifying Our Notions of Grammatical-Historical...
Vern Poythress Genesis 3:15 as a Test Case* Abstract: Evangelical scholars have championed grammatical-historical interpretation as an objective means of sifting truth from error. This approach has...
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Do Not Simply Skim, but Master the Books You Read
View Commentaries Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them, masticate and digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a...
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Seven laws for running the Christian race
Resources on Running the Race The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance Assurance Hebrews: Running the Race Before Us (Bringing the Bible to Life) A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan...
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There are Few who Really Pray ~ J.C. Ryle
Prayer “And here it is, I say it with sorrow, here it is that men fall short so miserably. Few indeed are to be found who pray: there are many who go down on their knees, and say a form perhaps, but...
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Self-righteous Calvinism
John Newton And I am afraid there are Calvinists, who, while they account it a proof of their humility that they are willing in words to debase the creature, and to give all the glory of salvation to...
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Can I Influence God by Offering the Right Kind of Prayer?
Philip Ryken We need to learn how wrong it is to think of prayer as a way of getting something from God. People often think of prayer as a way of talking God into doing what they want Him to do. This...
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The flesh hates everything about God
I'm at War - Spirit vs. Flesh The flesh hates everything about God. Since it resists everything about God, it resists every way we try to taste Him and know Him and love Him. And the more something...
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5 Things to Remember when Buying Christian Books
There are simply “too many books and too little time” to buy junk. (I only wish someone told me that very early on when I was reading Hal Lindsay!) Here are 5 great tips to remember when buying books...
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The Abuse of “Gospel Light” from The Evil of Evils by Jeremiah Burroughs
View at WTSBooks “I am persuaded that more men drop down to hell in our day under the abuse of gospel light than ever did in the gross darkness of popery…O how heavily does the wrath of God lie upon...
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Dealing with Discrepancies in the Bible
J.I. Packer Fifty Difficult Passages Explained by Jay Adams Many of us would agree with Peter when he says that parts of Paul’s letters are hard to understand! And there are difficulties and apparent...
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Sexual Immorality & Church Leaders
Sexual Purity Recently Leadership Magazine commissioned a poll of a thousand pastors. The pastors indicated that 12 percent of them had committed adultery while in ministry – one out of eight pastors!...
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When a true Christian sins, what happens?
His Fellowship with God is severed. David, when backslidden, mourned, “Day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer” (Psalm 32:4). As clouds hide the sun...
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True Confession of Sin is Specific
The Doctrine of Repentance The Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson A good case could be made out for believing that ‘repentance’ is one of the least used words in the Christian church today. In a...
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How to Get the Most from Reading your Bible
Thomas Watson by Thomas Watson Abridged and Modernised by Matthew Vogan Remove hindrances. (a) remove the love of every sin (b) remove the distracting concerns of this world, especially covetousness...
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