Truth For Life Blog

The Christian life is a long obedience in the same direction—more like a marathon than a sprint.¹ It’s not a series of hundred-yard bursts after which you can catch your breath on the grass and rest up until the next one.

Topics: Articles

Dear Friend,

At Parkside, we baptize individuals upon their profession of faith, and we join our young families as they dedicate their children to the Lord, as well as themselves to the sacred privilege of parenting.

Topics: Letters From Alistair Begg

Leaving home after graduating from high school is an exciting season of life—a time of new opportunities and challenges. For young Christians trying to fit in at a secular university, though, it’s also a time when their faith may come under attack.

Topics: Monthly Resources

Not all who profess faith in Christ actually follow Him. Not all who give lip service to Christianity necessarily know its truth. Various warning passages (e.g., Heb. 2:1–4; 3:7–4:13; 1 John 2:19), along with Jesus’ own words in the Gospels (e.g., Matt. 7:23; 25:41; Luke 13:27), alert us to the possibility that we can appear to have a relationship with Jesus and even enjoy the fellowship of close Christian community without finding a home in heaven in the end.

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When hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, or other disasters occur, we tend to think that God has fallen asleep on the job. Why would He let something like this happen? This timeless question finds its answer in God‘s providential and loving care. This is a God who plants His footsteps in the sea, and the winds and the waves obey Him. This message was given in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but an understanding that God has loving reasons for all such events helps us rise above the storm, setting our minds and hearts on solid ground.

Topics: Ministry Updates

“Go out and enjoy the beauty of His creation. Rest in the wonder of His providence. Trust unreservedly in His desire and design for His people. And we'll have occasion to be thankful.”
— Alistair Begg

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper

Original Words by Frank Houghton, Music by Samuel Wesley. New Words and Music by Keith and Kristyn Getty, Ed Cash and Fionan De Barra

Topics: Hymns and Worship

The entirety of the Bible is inspired Scripture—every book, every paragraph, every sentence, every word. But while all Scripture is equally inspired, some parts of it exceed the others in being inspiring.

Topics: Articles

Though we use it sparingly, bereavement is a word most of us have heard—perhaps at least in the context of the bereavement leave that many workplaces grant. The word comes from the verb to reave, which means to forcibly deprive, to take captive, to plunder. And that is what happens in the experience of bereavement. In being bereaved, we are broken up, we are ravished. What we once had is lost, and we are invaded with grief.

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What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. (James 4:14 ESV)

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper