Minor Feature

As a new semester begins at Bible colleges and seminaries, many students look forward to taking their first preaching course.

If you’ve taken Personal Spiritual Disciplines with me, you can probably guess much of what you are about to read here—or at least I hope you can. But even if you have taken the class, I hope you’ll find these brief reminders helpful.

Rather than considering what makes us the happiest, is the easiest, or is the most comfortable, Christians must desire and pursue what pleases Christ.

I have never seen a church with a culture of evangelism who didn’t also have a pastor passionately and actively engaged in evangelism.

The God of Edwards was not a tyrant or unfair. But he is holy. And thankfully, he is slow to anger.

From beginning to end and through every step of the way, the Holy Spirit was active in Christ’s penal substitutionary atonement.

By learning about the prophet of Islam, Christians will be better able to speak of our hope in Christ to Muslims around us.

Who will escape the wrath of God at the final judgment? Only those who belong to God, those who are sealed by him, who are numbered by him.

Student ministries that fail to disciple students in Scripture shouldn’t be surprised when the world has discipled them away from the faith in young adult years.

Puritans weren’t content merely to defend doctrine from the pulpit; they sought to apply truth in the pews by engaging the hearts of their hearers.

Let us pray — both privately and together and as brothers and sisters in the family of God!

If we describe our anger merely as sin, we will not gain the insight necessary for overcoming it.

While you can’t solve all the problems a suicidal person faces, you can pleadingly and prayerfully point him to the One who can, and you can commit to walking with him through his struggles.

With the transgender revolution, we’re not just facing the rejection of God’s blueprint for sexuality—we’re facing a crisis in God’s blueprint for happiness.

Unlike the world and its character of sinfulness, the church is characterized by holiness.

We must be marked not merely by the courage to do battle when necessary but also the gentleness, wisdom, and endurance needed to win the peace.

The natural law is an essential pillar in a Christian ethic that hopes to be faithful to the gospel in its public witness.

Jeremy Pierre | “God With Us”