Editor’s Note: Pastors are called to endure in personal, family, and public prayer. Prayer is the engine of the Christian life and a means of grace in the church.…
Editor’s Note: Our Holy God uses holy men. Therefore, we must pursue great holiness and endure in this pursuit. Dr. Kevin DeYoung not only explains the text of 2…
Editor’s Note: Endurance in ministry doesn’t come without trials. Dr. Jon Payne, preaching from 2 Corinthians 12, shows us how God sustained Paul and will sustain us amidst “thorns…
Introduction Antinomianism (anti- = “not/no/against,” -nomian = law; Lit. “antinomianism” is “no-law-ism”) is not the storm looming on the horizon; it is here. And it has been here for…
Introduction Few misconceptions have proven more persistent than the idea that Reformed theology somehow dampens evangelistic zeal. If God is sovereign in salvation, and thus if God has already…
Introduction If you are anything like me, you know that prayer ought to be the simplest, most natural, most easily dispensed pastoral activity of our office. Yet it is…
Introduction There it was—Section III Question G. I knew they would ask: Do you feel you meet the New Testament qualifications for the office for which you are a…
“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…
Click here for Part 1 and Part 2. Introduction In our previous articles on the glorious subject of preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ, we’ve explored two aspects of…
Introduction Corporate worship is the chief means of Christian discipleship (WSC Q.89). By “worship,” the Westminster divines included the reading, preaching, and singing of Scriptural truth, together with the…