Truth For Life Blog

Paul was no slacker. The apostle who wrote the majority of the books in the New Testament seems never to have done anything halfway. We see that profoundly in Philippians 3, where he describes the price he paid to follow Christ: “I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord … that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead” (Phil. 3:8, 11). In his discipleship, he made an unmitigated commitment—and he stuck to it.

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On June 8, 2025, Alistair Begg concluded his time as Parkside Church’s senior pastor after more than forty years leading the congregation. He will continue his ministry work at Truth For Life and maintain an active speaking schedule.

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“The Christian church has an opportunity … to say we know the one who has conquered death and has made a way for you to conquer death.”
—Alistair Begg

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God makes all things beautiful in His time—even when His timing isn’t what we have in mind! When the Hebrews were enslaved and treated harshly in Egypt, one Hebrew infant was spared. Nurtured in the faith by his own mother, Moses also enjoyed the privileged life of an Egyptian prince. In his sermon “In His Time — Part Two,” Alistair Begg points out how Moses’s eventual role as the deliverer of his people points forward to an even greater Deliverer:

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Writing to the believers in Corinth, the apostle Paul reflected on the weighty task of proclaiming God’s Word:

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Dear Friend,

Carved into the stone at the entrance to our building are these words from Isaiah 40:8: “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”

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In Matthew 28:19, Jesus instructs His followers to “go … and make disciples of all nations.” It’s important to remember that this biblical call to action is still relevant to us today.

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“There is nothing little in God; His steadfast love is like Himself—it is infinite. You cannot measure it.”
—C. H. Spurgeon

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Tiago Santos is the executive director of Ministério Fiel, located in Brazil. Over the past three years, Truth For Life has had the exciting privilege of partnering with Ministério Fiel to translate books by Alistair into Portuguese. Four titles, including Truth For Life: 365 Daily Devotions, Volume 1, Name Above All Names, The Christian Manifesto, and Preaching for God’s Glory are now complete and reaching Portuguese-speaking people in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, and Mozambique.

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In Exodus 1, the people of Israel face an unimaginable problem: After enjoying years of favor in Egypt, they live to see the rise of a new pharaoh, who institutes a harsh policy of infanticide to quell the rising Hebrew population. If God is, as we say, the God in charge of history, how do we make sense of such an atrocity? In his sermon “In His Time,” Alistair Begg helps us to acknowledge the tension such a question raises:

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