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I did not quite understand the true weight the article below held the first time I read it at the beginning of the year. Yes, I know full well what it is to suffer, how it is to endure suffering, how it is to go through severe acute, heart-wrenching trials—and to go through all that ...

The following is an excerpt is from "Under Constraint," a sermon preached Sunday morning 28 April 1878 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. It is the "Weekly Dose of Spurgeon" posted by the folks at the Pyromaniacs blog.Dear reader, let us have that same boldness and love for truth that Sir Spurgeon is speaking of ...

I saw this link posted quite a couple of times by my friends over at facebook. At first I thought it's another of those typical articles that deals with the sin of pride that is usually seen in the Reformed camp. But then reading the article myself, though in just a couple hundred words, the ...

So the first effect of Christianity is to make people stop and think. They are not simply overawed by some great occasion. They say, “No, I must face this. I must think.” That is the work of the Spirit. The people in Acts thought again. They repented—the Greek word is metanoia—they changed their mind completely. ...

Four years ago back in 2005 at the Baptist World Alliance, Rick Warren presented his thesis of the dire need of the hour suggesting that "The first Reformation was about doctrine; the second one needs to be about behavior." He said that what we need is "a reformation not of creeds but deeds." Throughout the ...

Three hundred years ago, on October 5, 1703, Jonathan Edwards was born in East Windsor, Connecticut. In honor of God's providence in setting upon us in Church History such a theological giant as Jonathan Edwards, we at New.Demonstration will dedicate this week to the preaching and teaching of the Word through the life and works ...

In the years after my conversion I have been given the tremendous privilege of being taught early the great doctrines of the faith. Doctrines, precepts and Bible truth that an average church goer today would not know until, by God's providence, learns of it late in life. These truths have been a great comfort to me. ...

I realize that this is around 3 times a longer post than usual, but please bear with the length as I believe that this will be most helpful especially in this day and age where Christian belief systems are get more vague by the moment, where issues concerning truth and error are not given as ...

...If zeal is true, it will be joined to a deep humility. A truly zealous man will be the last to discover the greatness of his own attainments. All that he is and does will fall immensely short of his own ...

What is Love? I don't believe love is just doing the right thing. I don't believe love is just keeping commandments. I don't believe love is just being patient and kind... That's what love looks like when it walks and talks. But that's not love! Love is passion! Let me ask you a question, do you have a passion for ...

If zeal is true it will be a zeal about things according to God’s mind, and sanctioned by clear examples in God’s Word. Take, for example, that highest and best kind of zeal-I mean zeal for our own growth in personal holiness. Such zeal will make a man continually feel that sin ...

When is a man truly zealous in Christianity? If zeal is true, it will be a zeal according to knowledge. It must not be a blind, ignorant zeal. It must be a calm, reasonable, intelligent principle, which can show the warrant ...