The Fruit of the Spirit: Perfect Patience for the Least Deserving (Part 5 of 9)
Between 1962 and 1967, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan served as the second president of India. It's said that on one occasion, addressing his community, he challenged the Christians who were listening by commenting, “You claim that Jesus Christ is your Savior. But you do not appear to be more saved than anyone else.” In other words, “I hear your story, but I’m not seeing the evidence.”
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Brand-New from Alistair Begg — “Truth For Life: 365 Daily Devotions”
“God’s word is a glorious gift. Our Father has given it to us in order that we might know His Son and that we might live in the power of His Spirit, in obedience to His truth.”
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Wallpaper: The Pattern of God
“The strategy of the Evil One is to inflate us in order to defeat us. The pattern of God is to deflate us in order to exalt us.”
— Alistair Begg
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Peace in a World of Conflict (Part 4 of 9)
Our world lacks peace. Just consider: historians estimate that since the sixteenth century, over eight thousand peace treaties have been signed, presumably with the intent that the resulting peace would last forever—yet most of them endured little more than two years. Instead, conflict and chaos are everywhere, and wherever calamity doesn’t reign, it remains nearby, lurking around every corner.
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Study the Ten Commandments in the New Year
We live at a time when many view the Ten Commandments as outdated and irrelevant to contemporary life. But God’s law is timeless, and our response to His instruction is of eternal significance.
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How to Benefit from the Sabbath: Four Principles for Honoring the Lord’s Day
Why do Christians worship on Sundays? The answer goes deeper than mere custom or convention. Indeed, it goes to the very heart of our faith.
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Wallpaper: Your Counselor and Friend
“Here is a word for you, believer; rest in it. Be sure that God will be your counselor and friend; He will guide you; He will direct all your ways.”
— C.H. Spurgeon
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Joy in a Broken World (Part 3 of 9)
We don’t have to look far to see that our world is broken—desperately ill and seemingly falling apart at every seam. Indeed, the Bible tells us that since the time of Genesis 3, creation has been “subjected to futility” (Rom. 8:20).
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Timeless Truths for a Changing World: The Threefold Use of God’s Law
All of God’s Word is relevant for all of the Christian life. According to 2 Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (emphasis added). And yes, “all Scripture” includes genealogies, censuses, and seemingly obscure ritual laws.
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Alistair Begg on Gracious Gratitude
Dear Friend,
Jonathan Edwards was born on October 5, 1703, in East Windsor, Connecticut. Regarded as the greatest theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism and a forerunner of the Great Awakening, he is best known for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” which he preached in 1741 following George Whitefield’s tour of the Thirteen Colonies.
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