Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding…

  • Who Should Read the Scriptures in Worship?

    This public reading of the Scripture is treated with such seriousness because it has the capacity to bind the whole community to the same principles—the principles operative for life under the new covenant. By the reading of Scripture, the people are bound together by the public pronouncement of their God-given principles and beliefs. They are Read more

  • Sharing In His Death and Resurrection

    Even our weakness, suffering, and dying have been appointed by God to transform us into the likeness of our crucified and risen Savior. In this message, Sinclair Ferguson expounds on the fruit of our union with Christ in His death and resurrection. Ligonier Ministries, Sharing in His Death and Resurrection: Union with Christ with Sinclair Read more

  • Matthew Henry Monday

    In these verses the apostle opens the design of the whole epistle, in which he brings forward a charge of sinfulness against all flesh; declares the only method of deliverance from condemnation, by faith in the mercy of God, through Jesus Christ; and then builds upon it purity of heart, grateful obedience, and earnest desires Read more

  • Fleeing Worldliness

    Worldliness is when I absorb and embrace a way of thinking and living that is not submissive to God but is instead contrary to God. Worldliness is what the apostle John calls “the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16). In our experiences in Read more

  • The Solution to a Troubled Heart

    And so in the beginning of chapter 14 Jesus anticipates the sorrow of their already breaking hearts, and He gives them comfort upon comfort. As we read Jesus’ words in the first six verses we discover how deeply He cared for His disciples. He was about to be nailed to a cross, and He knew Read more