A Domestic Abuse Primer
Dear friend, This has been an awful week for you, I know. Learning about the abuse that your friend has endured for well over a decade (which you also suspected for just as long, but could never prove) is a
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Author: Paul Tautges
Flashback Friday: Bearing One Another’s Sin Burdens
Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and
Continue readingLet Us Not Camouflage God’s Wrath
The longer I walk with the Lord and serve Him as an undershepherd of Christ the more my spirit is troubled by the increasing tendency among evangelicals to soft-sell God. We live in a church culture committed to sparing the
Continue readingHow the Sufficiency of Scripture Makes a Huge Difference
Previously, I have written many times on the sufficiency of Scripture for all that pertains to life and godliness, to matters relating to the soul. You may read some of those articles here. Today, I wish to pass on four
Continue readingFlashback Friday: 7 Marks of Humility
Starting today, each Friday I plan to re-post an article from previous years which I think will be an encouragement and will equip you as you continue to follow our gracious Lord. Here’s one from February 2012. God’s leadership principles
Continue readingGod Could Have Decreed to Create Nothing
This morning, my heart craved some time with the Puritans. Therefore, one volume I pulled off my shelf is The Christian’s Reasonable Service. My post-it note bookmark was in the middle of the chapter on general observations concerning the decrees
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Under-Rowers for Christ
According to the Scriptures, faithfulness is the #1 quality of a servant of God. In 1 Corinthians 4:1-2, the apostle said of himself and his co-workers: This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of
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The Joy of Sacrificial Service
The Christian life—when properly understood—is a life of sacrifice. Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it,
Continue readingIn the Hand of Jesus
Alec Motyer ministered to me this morning with these timely words from Isaiah By the Day. When it appears that the world we live in is out of control, remember the Lord has all things in his almighty hand. “To say
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Fighting Fear with Fear
It’s been a few weeks since my review of Wayne & Joshua Mack’s book, Courage, was published at Books At a Glance, but it came to my mind this morning when I recommended the book to someone who is counseling
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Ten Qualities to Look for When Choosing a Church
“In nearly twenty years of working at a biblical counseling center,” writes Jim Newheiser, “I have observed that the single greatest impediment to our counselees making progress is their lack of a proper relationship with a solid biblical church. Sometimes
Continue readingOur Greatest Contribution to the Good of Our Nation
Evangelical Christians continue to be obsessed with political activism as the answer to the problems of our nation. “If we can only get the right people into the right positions who can then make the right laws we can turn
Continue readingIn Christ There is Satisfaction and Peace
At our weekly staff meeting at church, we sometimes read from Valley of Vision. This morning, we prayed together the following request for the Lord to make us more and more content with all we have in Christ, which is
Continue readingIf God Is Sovereign, Isn’t Prayer Superfluous?
In his Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin gives us 6 reasons the providence of God does not render prayer unnecessary. “But, someone will say, does God not know, even without being reminded, both in what respect we are
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5 Reasons to Join the Global Summit – “Even if you cannot travel to the Chicago area, that doesn’t need to stop you from experiencing the blessings of learning about how God is using biblical counseling to expand his kingdom
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Work Out Our Own Salvation
As believers, we long to be more like Christ but some days we feel we are taking three steps forward and two steps back. How do we approach the Christian life? How do we make steady progress in our spiritual
Continue readingSuffering and Singing
Singing to the Lord is a significant means of ministering to our own souls in times of suffering. That’s one reason why we are so drawn to the Psalms, and why Suffering and Singing is a fitting title for a
Continue readingNuggets [5/13/16]
The BCC Global Summit is coming soon, June 5-7. 12 Principles for Disagreeing with Other Christians – This is an excellent post adapted from a new book on the conscience. Who and What Is an Evangelical? Evangelicals and Politics, Part
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