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Brian Cosby

  • ConfessionalSanctification

    Six Days You Shall Labor
    Recovering the Nobility of Work in the Fourth Commandment

    by Brian Cosby March 2, 2026

    “Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God” (Ex. 20:9–10). Introduction When the Fourth Commandment…

  • ChurchChurch PlantingLeadershipMinistryReformationRuling Elders

    How Ruling Elders Can Promote Church Revitalization
    A Practical Guide

    by Brian Cosby October 9, 2025

    Introduction Church revitalization is a Spirit-led, Spirit-dependent return to the ordinary means of grace with renewed zeal, clarity, and love. Ruling Elders (RE) are not spectators to this work—they…

  • SanctificationTheology

    How Should We Apply the Sixth Commandment?

    by Brian Cosby December 23, 2024

    At the surface, the Sixth Commandment seems straightforward: “You shall not murder” (Ex. 20:13; Deut. 5:17). But as we explore both the biblical context and how this command is…

  • TheologyWorship

    Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken
    Finding Joy Amidst Suffering & Persecution

    by Brian Cosby January 22, 2024

    If there’s one hymn I’d like sung at my funeral, this is it. When you get a diagnosis of cancer or you are persecuted because of your biblical worldview…

  • FamilyLeadershipSanctification

    The Way of Temptation and the Highway of Holiness

    by Brian Cosby May 8, 2021

    Jim turned out the lights, locked his office, and headed for the parking lot. He glanced at his watch—8:30pm. He would have usually grabbed a late dinner on the…

  • ChurchMinistryMissionWorship

    A Threefold Cord
    Cultivating Community in a World of Isolation

    by Brian Cosby July 30, 2020

    We were created for community, which means that we need one another. Over the last several months of quarantine and isolation, we’ve witnessed and felt the necessity of true…

  • ChurchConfessionalLeadershipMinistry

    The Duties of Civil Magistrates
    Lessons from the Westminster Confession of Faith

    by Brian Cosby April 21, 2020

    During this unusual season of global pandemic, government officials have shut down businesses, restricted travel, and banned gatherings of various sizes. Because of this, lawsuits have been filed and…

  • ConfessionalTheologyWorship

    God’s Self-Sufficiency
    Embracing the Reality that God Doesn’t Need You

    by Brian Cosby August 4, 2018

    In 2009, my wife and I purchased a home in Atlanta, Georgia. Despite being a larger house in a nice neighborhood, it was what our realtor called “a handy…

  • ConfessionalLeadershipSanctification

    Why Does God Ordain Suffering?
    A Puritan's Response

    by Brian Cosby March 30, 2018

    The Church today needs a robust and refreshingly biblical theology of suffering and it would behoove us to consider the voices of the past—in particular, the Puritans. They not…

  • ChurchConfessionalTheology

    Making God in Our Image
    Are We Embarrassed by the True and Living God?

    by Brian Cosby August 3, 2017

    Growing up, I had what you might call a “little-man” complex. My friends labeled me “Small Fry” at an early age, and I made it my mission to prove…

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