Truth For Life Blog

Most of us don’t use the word covenant often. But the Bible is built on covenants—God’s promises to His people. Understanding these promises across the Bible, including those God made to Noah, Abraham, and Moses, can help you better understand God’s salvation master plan. That’s what the book Covenant Foundations: Understanding the Promise-Keeping God of the Bible explores.

Topics: Monthly Resources

The notion of self-defined morality has become entrenched in contemporary Western culture. The world often invites us to freedom on our own terms, and it has peddled that idea everywhere from Supreme Court decisions to viral Disney lyrics (“No right, no wrong, no rules for me; I’m free! Let it go!”)¹

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“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.”
John 10:27–28

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper

William Sangster, the twentieth-century Methodist preacher, began a volume on preaching with these words: “Preaching is in the shadows. The world does not believe in it.”¹ Today the situation is graver still. Despite its recovery in some pockets of the global church in recent decades, strong, healthy preaching largely remains in the shadows—but now it seems many churches do not believe in it.

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In certain traditional Scottish Presbyterian churches, a few minutes before a worship service begins, the parish official ascends the stairs of the pulpit carrying a large Bible. Laying the book in its place, he marks the passages for that morning with ribbon markers. After a brief pause, he then descends the stairs and disappears.

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“Downcast and troubled Christian, come and glean today in the broad field of promise.”
—C. H. Spurgeon

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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina

Dear Friend,

I am writing this letter from the campus of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. It is my humble privilege to have been invited to deliver the 2025 Adams Lecture Series on preaching. Being in the company of the seminary’s faculty and the students they’re preparing for pastoral ministry provides a strong reminder of the immense privilege and responsibility of being called by God to shepherd the people of God.

Topics: Letters From Alistair Begg

The apostle Paul was a missionary, theologian, writer, prisoner, and martyr. His remarkable story includes false accusations, riots, beatings, chains, and a journey of over ten thousand miles along Roman roads and across angry seas. The book An Illustrated Guide to the Apostle Paul: His Life, Ministry, and Missionary Journeys offers an up-close, historical look at this great apostle by tracing a detailed timeline of his incredible contribution to the Christian faith through the power of God’s enabling.

Topics: Monthly Resources

In the late 1960s, Martyn Lloyd-Jones gave a series of lectures on preaching to the students at Westminster Seminary. Explaining why he traveled all the way from England to Philadelphia to teach on the subject, he said,

Topics: Articles

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
Galatians 5:1

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper