A.A. Hodge on the Long-Term Effects of Removing Christ from Education In the 1870s the United States did not yet have the comprehensive system of public education that we now take for granted, and whether or not such a system was a good idea was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A little while ago, a good Baptist brother in Christ asked the following question: "what benefits did my children (whom were not baptized until they professed faith, ages 13 or 14 as I recall) not have that, say, one of your children have?" In...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"The Lost Tomb of Jesus" Exactly the Kind of Deceptive Nonsense Christians Should Expect Unless you live somewhere not able to receive TV, Radio, or internet communications, chances are good that you have heard about the upcoming Discovery...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Last night I was listening to a lecture on the Emergent Church and the speaker made the comment that of late Christianity Today has been publishing articles commending that particularly corrupting movement. I was glad he said that because I was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THOMAS WATSON ON "PRAYING IN FAITH" What does praying in faith imply? Praying in faith implies having faith, and the act implies the habit. To walk implies a principle of life; so to pray in faith implies a habit of grace. None can pray in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Prayer & Power in Preaching Last week we read E.M. Bounds on the necessity of unction to effective preaching, now we conclude with his thoughts on the key to unction – prayer: “Somehow the practice of praying in particular for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What is “unction?” Those of you who have listened to our sermons may have noticed that we often pray for God’s unction to attend the preaching of His word, and it may be that you are unfamiliar with this term. E.M. Bounds...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The original conversion of Europe to Christianity was not accomplished by the sword or by armies, it was accomplished by individuals like Patrick. Patrick was a Briton taken as child to be a slave in Ireland, who escaped but felt a call to return...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I was recently involved in an online discussion of the optimal length for sermons. Some thought that we must preach for such and such a time whether it be one hour or 20 minutes. As I considered that I felt compelled to go back and study some of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
WHY WE WORSHIP THE WAY WE DO Appendix: Vestments "Under the apostles there was great simplicity in administering the Lord’s Supper. Their immediate successors made some additions to the dignity of the ordinance, which are not to be...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
