“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (1 Thess. 5:18). In every season of life, in good times or hard, living under tyranny or enjoying liberty, in a mansion or a shack, having godly children or wayward ones, loving or hating your present employment, skinny or fat, at peace with your wife or struggling, thank the Lord! Because, second, his will is and ought to be considered the holy, truly good, and just cause of all things. We

No child of God is ever alone. We are indwelled by the invincible Helper, the Holy Spirit of God. The word translated helper or comforter in our English Bible means one who comes alongside. His coming alongside is permanent, for we are sealed by the Holy Spirit.                 Words fail to express how necessary it is to know and believe this. The Holy Spirit is the great gift from the Father, sent by the Father and Son to quicken, justify, adopt, sanctify, and raise our bod

When we read the Reformation-era critiques of Roman Catholicism, there is regular mention of the relief the Lord gives to trembling consciences when we believe the true gospel. Sin imposes a real and debilitating sense of guilt upon the human soul. It must, for we are created in God’s image. The conscience is an inner judge of our actions. When our conscience is guilty, it is filled with anxiety, like an inner, turbulent sea.                 Roman Catholicism’s system of pena

The way some tell it, Protestantism and the Reformation have run their course. The cutting edge now is to go back, West or East, Rome or Constantinople. Many internet trolls are telling young people that they are too smart to remain a Protestant.                 If by Protestant, one means the hipster preacher who is not an apologist for the Christian faith but constantly apologizing for it and the satanic attempts to make the church as familiar to the world as possible, one

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