In this week's article,The Dead Seriousness of Careless Words, Tim Challies reminds us of the power of our words.Death and life are in the power of the tongue, andout of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Words have meaning and therefore consequences. Choose wisely. ...

In this week's article,Lessons From Mainline Decline, Kevin DeYoung discusses the decline of mainline denominations and how relevant and diverse interpretations of the gospel do not bring various people together nearly as well as the gospel of the cross. ...

In this week's article,The Holy Spirit, Our Helper and Beautifier, Dr. Dustin Benge teaches us that the holy spirit is not only our helper but our beautifier. Each of the many ministries of the holy spirit brings beauty out of chaos as we are comforted and guided through our trials, while being conformed to Christ likeness and the good end of holiness....

In this week's article,Is It Unspiritual to Be Discouraged?, Dr. Sinclair Ferguson encourages our hearts as he reminds us that though we will often feel discouraged in this fallen world, even as our Savior did, we will not be defeated by discouragement. Take heart in the words of the psalmist when your tears are your food day and night remembering that by day the LORD comm...

In this week's article,The Ordinary Means of Discipleship, Dr. Mantle A. Nance reviews the timeless blessing of the ordinary means of grace that Christ instituted for his bride, the church. These means of grace may appear weak in the eyes of the world, but in the eyes of the Lord and the discerning believer, they are channels through which sinners are brought into relation...

In this week's article,Why Should We Remember what God Forgets?, Tim Challies challenges us to rememeber that we serve a forgetful God. Though he has seen all the evil we have done and all the good we have left undone, still he has banished it from his mind. He regards us as if we had never sinned, relates to us as if we had only ever been as righteous as Christ, and conti...

In this week's article,Is Every Sin the Same in God's Eyes?, Rev. Kevin DeYoung helps us to understand that every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, but not every sin is the same in God's eyes. Recognizing that there are various degrees and varieties of sin, and learning how to distinguish one sin from another, will help us appropriately give and receive comfort or warnin...

In this week's article,Favor in God's Eyes, Dr. Derek Thomas reflects on the wonder and mystery of God's electing grace to a people who deserve death and judgement....

In this week's article,What's in Your Mind, Believer?, Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson clarifies the role of the law of God in light of the gospel. We are no longer condemned under the law, but "in-lawed" to it because of our betrothal to Christ, making the law of God no longer our enemy, but our friend. ...

In this week's article,Festo Kivengere and His Message of Forgiveness, Italian author, teacher, and homeschooler of eight children, Simonetta Carr, writes about the Anglican bishop in Uganda, Festo Kivengere, and how Christ taught him to love, forgive, and witness to Idi Amin, the cruel persecutor of the Ugandan Christians....