Truth For Life Blog

“The happiness and peace we desire comes only when the burden of sin is taken away.”
—Alistair Begg

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper

In Revelation, we are given a vision of a vast crowd too great to count which is made up of people from all nations, provinces, and languages, and together they are crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” This is a picture to keep in mind always, and especially when in our Gospel endeavors it is a “day of small things” (Zech. 4:10). I remind myself as I encourage our congregation to read and watch the news through the lens of Scripture. Graeme Goldsworthy puts it well: “Scripture as God’s word must interpret history and culture, not the other way round.” 

Topics: Letters From Alistair Begg

“In the midst of triumphs and trials alike, here is what can give you stability: that God’s steadfast love and mercies toward you will never expire.”
—Alistair Begg

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper

God make my life a little light
Within the world to glow;
A little flame that burneth bright,
Wherever I may go.

Topics: Hymns and Worship

The story is told of a young pastor who, in his first pastorate in Philadelphia, was visited by a group from his congregation. Coming into his home, one of the members told the minister, “You aren’t a strong preacher. In the usual order of things, you will fail here. But a little group of us have decided to meet every Sunday morning to pray for God’s blessing upon you.” In God’s providence, that little Sunday-morning prayer group grew to one thousand people in number. And it was that group and that prayer meeting which underpinned the ministry of J. Wilbur Chapman, one of the great American preachers around the turn of the twentieth century.

Topics: Articles

“In all life’s ups and downs, remember that you are not bobbing around on the sea of chance, nor are you held in the grip of blind deterministic forces; you are being trained in the school of God’s providence.”
—Alistair Begg

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper

Was there ever kindest shepherd,
Half so gentle, half so sweet
As the Savior who would have us
Come and gather round His feet?
It is God; His love looks mighty
But is mightier than it seems;
’Tis our Father, and His kindness
Goes out far beyond our dreams.

Topics: Hymns and Worship

Unless we first understand God’s identity, we will never make sense of our own. So who is God? Psalm 8 proclaims that He is the Lord, the ruler of all things who created mankind in His image. Our inherent dignity, however, has been tarnished by sin. Contrasting God’s greatness with humanity’s frailty, Alistair Begg demonstrates the immense care for us that God expressed through the death of His Son, Jesus. It is this God alone who reaches out to us, answering the deepest questions of our souls.

Topics: From the Archives

Jesus Christ’s teaching about possessions is radical. It confronts both the selfish society in which we live and the sleeping church, which has so often gone with the flow of the world’s anxieties and greed. If the church is to be a shaft of light in the world’s darkness, then those who follow Christ will need to demonstrate a godly outlook toward worldly goods by embracing an absolute trust in the Father’s provision.

Topics: Articles

“If you consider yourself of little import, little ability, and little influence, then be encouraged, for God works through insignificant people in insignificant places.”
—Alistair Begg

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper