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Convince them how impossible it is to go the way to heaven without knowing it, when there are so many difficulties and enemies in the way; and when men cannot do their worldly business without knowledge, nor learn a trade without an apprenticeship. Convince them what a contradiction it is to be a Christian, and ...

I began this blog at the beginning of October 2007, and quite honestly I did not expect it to go for so long, not to mention that I did not tire from it. Surely it is by God’s grace that this blog is still up and running. Though even after experiencing trouble with web hosting, ...

Phil Johnson, Why I Am a Calvinist. . . and why every Christian is a Calvinist of sorts.I love the doctrines of grace and don’t shy away from the label “Calvinist.” I believe in the sovereignty of God. I’m convinced Scripture teaches that God is completely sovereign not only in salvation (effectually calling and granting ...

I never realized how beautiful the letter to the Philippians was 'till I heard Pastor Jim preach from it. Finally, by the Spirit of God, it makes so much sense. Not only does it make sense, but it's beauty is so grand and glorious, the message of the Gospel! Why, oh, why, to a wretch ...

J.R. Miller, In Green Pastures Amusement must never become an end in life. It must always be a means, a help on the way--just as sleep is, just as rest is. An hour's amusement, should be to you, just what a night's sleeping is. It should make you stronger, clearer-headed, braver, calmer-souled, more hopeful, more earnest, ...

1. The Gospel of No More Than 5 Minutes.here is this growing sense in the Christian world today that, more often than not, congregations are becoming more and more the "faith based", "experiential", "revivalist", "practical and relational" type of Church congregation while being under the premise of reaching the lost and the efforts to fulfill ...

Marsha G. Witten, All is Forgiven - HT: Michael Horton Growing churches proclaim an attractive message warmly massaging hearers' hearts. That's what Marsha G. Witten found in her study, All Is Forgiven: The Secular Message in American Protestantism. Interested (as a sociologist, not as a believer) in what was being preached in modern churches, Witten ...

Michael Horton, Assuming the Gospel To arrive at a condition of Christless Christianity where Christ becomes more of a trademark for t-shirts and entertainment empires more than the object of faith. No explicit heresy is needed, because our default setting is Pelagianism, the heresy of self-salvation. Unless we are constantly taught out of it, not just ...

C.H. Spurgeon, Our ManifestoA gospel which is after men will be welcomed by men; but the true gospel of the grace of God needs a divine operation upon the heart and mind to make a man willing to receive into his utmost soul such a distasteful truth.My dear Brethren, do not try to make it ...

The thing that is most lacking in the Church today is sound doctrine, thus what is ultimately lost due to that loss is the unity of the faith.

---"Pop Goes the Hype!" [gccwired] (SliceCast) @LaneChaplin* 47% of those attending DO NOT believe in salvation by grace. * 57% of those attending DO NOT believe in the authority of the Bible. * 56% of those attending DO NOT believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life.These are the statistics you would expect to find if ...

An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it during the past few years. It has developed at an abnormal rate, even for evil. It has worked like leaven until the whole lump ferments. The devil has seldom done ...

James White, Defining and Defending the Gospel We live in a day and age where society around us, each and every day, seeks to convince us that things like the truth of the Gospel are not knowable. The way our society thinks is that if you say "this is right", and that that means, "this is ...

C.H. Spurgeon, A Call to Holy Living I am taught that our Lord expects from his people a more exact performance of the divine will than even the Pharisees pretend to give. Observe, he speaks here about jots and tittles never passing away, and about those who break the least of his commandments, and teach men ...