Truth For Life Blog

When Christians tell about God’s mercies to them, it provides tremendous encouragement to others who are seeking to live by faith. In Psalm 34:6, we find just such a testimony: “This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.” Three brief observations about this verse will serve as helpful reminders for our Christian walk.

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When Jude wrote to the Christians of his day, he wanted to focus on their common salvation—but instead, he found it necessary to urge them to “contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” In the sermon “A Call to Contend,” Alistair Begg surveys the warm greeting, necessary appeal, and chilling reminder in this neglected letter’s opening verses. While church history makes clear that periods of declension are inevitable, Jude’s careful, protective tone reminds us to resist the urge to turn contending into contentiousness:

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Dear Friend,

One month from today, I’ll have the privilege of speaking to twelve thousand young people ages eighteen to twenty-five who will gather at Cross Con 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky. They’ll come together from many distant points across the country to proclaim the name of Jesus and encourage one another to make their lives count by making Jesus known.

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“God is not only the creator but also the provider, the sustainer, the redeemer, the end of all things. Men and women are not left to blind fate.”
—Alistair Begg

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For over a century, the devotional Morning and Evening by nineteenth-century pastor Charles Spurgeon has been a cherished companion for generations of believers, offering two brief yet profound readings each day—one for the morning, one for the evening. In each devotion, Spurgeon weaves Scripture together with pastoral insight, inviting readers to begin and close their days rooted in God’s Word.

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“Christian faith does not derive its standards from contemporary society but from the Scriptures themselves.”
—Alistair Begg

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Psalm 145 is the only psalm that, in the original Hebrew, has the heading tehillah, which means simply “a psalm” or, more plainly, “a praise.” It is also the last of David’s psalms—and in some ways, it seems to gather together all of David’s experience of God to express his thanksgiving and adoration:

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The sin of jealousy is often tolerated in Christian circles—but our lenience doesn’t make it any less serious. The Bible is clear: Jealousy is a grave matter. In a talk given to seminary students called “Regarding Jealousy,” Alistair Begg surveys jealousy’s consequences, which can only be overcome as we acknowledge our transgression before God and keep our eyes fixed on Christ:

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“There are graces to which we have not attained, places of fellowship nearer to Christ that we have not reached, and heights of communion that our feet have not climbed.”
—C. H. Spurgeon

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Dear Friend,

“All good gifts around us are sent from heav’n above;
Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord for all His love.”

These words are the refrain of my favorite harvest Thanksgiving hymn. It reminds us that while the farmer sows the seeds, we have God to thank, because it is He who “sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain, the breezes and the sunshine, and soft, refreshing rain.”

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