Truth For Life Blog

“How can a young man keep his way pure?
 By guarding it according to your word.
With my whole heart I seek you;
 let me not wander from your commandments!”
Psalm 119:9–10

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At the dawn of creation, in humanity’s earliest days, God gave us work to do: “The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it” (Gen. 2:15). Although we now know the curse of toil (3:17–19), work itself is part of God’s good creative handiwork. He didn’t make us to sit around and do nothing.

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“There is no period in the Christian life when we are exempt from temptation.”
—Alistair Begg

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Teaching in the UK in August

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While Jesus was masterful at sermon illustrations (in His case, often through parables), the apostle Paul wasn’t half bad either. In 2 Timothy 2:3–7, he uses a series of three illustrations to show his protégé, Timothy, what it means to be a pastor and a Gospel minister:

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“God loves to see the hearts of His people glowing toward Himself. ... Let us use texts of Scripture as fuel for our heart’s fire.”
—C. H. Spurgeon

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John Stott has said, “Nothing hinders evangelism … more than the widespread loss of confidence in the truth, relevance, and power of the Gospel.”¹ Even within the present framework of contemporary Christianity, there has been and continues to be an erosion of conviction as it relates to the exclusive claims of Jesus and, thus, the power of the Gospel.

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“True freedom is found in all of our Christian lives by obedience to what God has made absolutely clear in the Bible.”
—Alistair Begg

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We don’t use the word reverence much anymore. For many, it suggests hushed voices, stern looks, or a list of rules about how to behave. Yet throughout Scripture, we’re called to worship God with reverence and wonder at His power, grace, and majesty. What does reverence actually look like, and how can our worship give God the glory He deserves?

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