7 Things Your Church Needs From You Not too long ago I had the opportunity to speak to a gathering of young adults from several churches across our city. I chose to speak about how any Christian (not only young adults) can make a church better and stronger. Here are some of the things I…
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God’s Amazing Grace My name is Andre Bekker. I dedicate this testimony to my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and Professor Hennie Stander at University of Pretoria, who found it worth while to invest in a young student’s life, at a time I needed it so much and who found me worthy to befriend. I was born on…
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There Is Salvation in No One Else January 20, 1991 by John Piper Scripture: Acts 4:1–12 Topic: The Gospel Series: Acts: What Jesus Did After the Beginning And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, annoyed because they were teaching the people…
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Jesus: The Only Savior by R.C. Sproul I cannot imagine an affirmation that would meet with more resistance from contemporary Westerners than the one Paul makes in 1 Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”This declaration is narrow and downright un-American. We have…
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What does the Bible say about OMG? I was sitting at a sporting event, when the lovely, Christian lady beside me shouted, “Oh, my God!” as her child made a mistake. I cringed inside. And then I wondered, “does she know?” Does she know that the Bible tells us not to use God’s name in…
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2 Serious Misconceptions about God’s Wrath There may be no theological topic more controversial than divine wrath. While most of humanity is eager to acknowledge the existence of God, and while most love to acknowledge his traits of grace and mercy and kindness, very few want to acknowledge his wrath. Yet wrath is a consistent…
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Five Questions about Sanctification and Good Works: How Does Sanctification Differ from Justification? Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of posts in the Reformed blogosphere related to sanctification and good works. I won’t attempt to survey all the relevant posts, but the main ones include: John Piper’s Foreword to Tom…
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From The Sword & Trowel 2011, issue 2 by Dr Peter Masters Does the Bible teach definitively that the charismatic gifts have ceased? Can cessationism (the view that they have ended) be proved? Some say that the cessationism cannot be conclusively proved from Scripture. We believe, however, that the ceasing of revelatory…
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I haven’t always sat under the teaching ministry of John MacArthur. In fact, earlier parts of my Christian walk have been tarnished by over-exposure to some really bad Bible teachers, and attendance in some very man-centered churches. A lot of my expertise in error comes from first-hand experience. It took longer than I care to…
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5 Ways to Talk to Your Children About Death It wasn’t the first thing to enter my mind, but it might have been the second: How am I going to tell the kids? The doctor had just laid out the cold, hard truth: “Your friend, Ken, has passed.” Ken was a dear family friend, a man…
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