Truth For Life Blog

“Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.”
Jeremiah 32:17

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I know not why God’s wondrous grace
To me He hath made known,
Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love
Redeemed me for His own.

Topics: Hymns and Worship

Who is on the Lord’s side? Who will serve the King?
Who will be His helpers, other lives to bring?
Who will leave the world’s side? Who will face the foe?
Who is on the Lord’s side? Who for Him will go?
By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine,
We are on the Lord’s side—Savior, we are Thine!

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For those in vocational ministry, there can be something unappealing about the basics. After all, many of us are educated, well-read, and (if only on our best days) reasonably thoughtful. We want to be able to demonstrate an advanced understanding of the material we’re preaching and teaching. People may begin to wonder why we are in the pulpit if we don’t offer some unique insight, some intriguing idea. Why should we need to tell them again and again what the text plainly says?

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O Word of God incarnate,
O Wisdom from on high,
O Truth unchanged, unchanging,
O Light of our dark sky,
We praise Thee for the radiance
That from the hallowed page,
A lantern to our footsteps,
Shines on from age to age.

Topics: Hymns and Worship

“In the cross, it wasn’t that Christ made us savable, but it was that He saved us.”
—Alistair Begg

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One the great tyrannies of our age is the lie that we will be most useful when we are as strong as we can be. We tell ourselves that God wants us to conquer all our challenges, to overcome the Evil One in frontal assault, to have our family and church and neighbors look to us and say, “Now there’s a strong servant of the Lord!”

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Does the Old Testament Really Point to Jesus? explains six different ways you can identify Jesus foreshadowed and promised in the books of the Old Testament. You’ll even learn how the law of Moses points forward to Christ.

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“God is in charge of the great reversals; He turns us from darkness to light, from sadness to joy, from death to life.”
—Alistair Begg

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The Bible is a book about Jesus. While we certainly should read our Bibles with personal application in mind, we must ultimately ask, “Where is Jesus in this passage?”

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“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.”
1 John 5:3

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Writing in Psalm 139, David asks several thought-provoking questions. Having already marveled at the fact that God knows everything (vv. 1–6), he probes further: “Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?” (v. 7). In other words, David asks whether a believer can hide from God. “Can I find an escape route,” the psalmist wonders, “from the God who searches me and knows everything about me?” It’s a question that deserves our attention.

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Dear Friend,

I hope this letter finds you in good heart as spring arrives, bringing with it fresh evidence of God’s promise in Genesis 8:22. (Look it up.) For many of us, it is a long-anticipated day when the clocks change and we “spring forward.” We then discover that during the dark days of winter, a great deal has been happening unseen, laying the groundwork for the appearance of crocuses, green leaves, and the colors of the season.

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If you’ve never studied Scripture by taking notes and highlighting key sections right on the text itself, you’ll find that it’s a helpful way to enhance your learning. With the ESV Scripture Journal for the book of Acts, you’ll trace your way through the vital period after the resurrection of Jesus, learn how Christianity spread, and experience the missionary journeys of the apostle Paul. This travel-ready journal, which contains the text for the whole book of Acts, has plenty of room for sermon notes or personal reflection as you study.

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“Our world is broken because we're alienated from the God who made us.”
—Alistair Begg

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