From the Ligonier Blog
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The Holy Catholic Church (Africa Journal #2)
One of the great blessings of my calling is that I am from time to time called to travel far and wide. Over the course of little more than a year I have travelled to teach in the United Kingdom, in Japan, and now in Africa. I come home each time encouraged to see the Spirit of God at work in places that are far to me, but near to Him. While my joy increases however, so does my concern. ... Read More July 29, 2010 at 04:20 PM | from R.C. Sproul Jr.
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses
We need daily pardon and daily protection as well as daily provision. So after Jesus taught us to pray, “give us today our daily bread,” He also taught us to pray, “and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (Matt. 6:12–13). Read More July 29, 2010 at 07:00 AM | from Philip Ryken
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Be Ye Perfect
When Jesus says, "Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven in perfect," does that mean we can attain perfection, and should we? Read More July 28, 2010 at 07:00 AM | from R.C. Sproul
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Being a Christian in a Post-Christian Culture: Join Us This Fall for the 2010 Washington D.C. Conference
Today, we are living in an anti-Christian society where the holiness of God is mocked, Christians are silenced, and the gospel is largely seen as irrelevant, even in many professedly "Christian" churches. During this conference, Thabiti Anyabwile, Robert Godfrey, Albert Mohler, Burk Parsons, R.C. Sproul Jr. and R.C. Sproul (live via video) will provide sound teaching as to how Christians can recover a biblical understanding of the world around us and, consequently, how we can reform our lives and our ... Read More July 27, 2010 at 01:30 PM | from Karisa Schlehr
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Church Growth and the Sovereignty of God
It seems that every time I meet a pastor from another church, he asks me the common, unsolicited, ecclesiastical question of the twenty-first-century: “How big is your church?” Most pastors are usually a bit confounded when I respond: “I don’t know.” It’s only when I am pressed for an answer that I provide him with the number of families in our congregation. But if I am in a good mood I may simply explain that our church consists of people ... Read More July 27, 2010 at 07:00 AM | from Burk Parsons
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Thirteen Souls (Africa Journal #1)
One of my many weaknesses is that I don’t, at least in my heart, believe that missionaries have weaknesses. I see them as super-heroes. How wonderful they must be to leave the comforts of home and family to go and serve. My mind knows better, but the heart has its reasons. Missionaries, I know objectively, are not super spiritual people who do not sin. They are instead super-spiritual people whose consciousness of their own sin fuels gospel gratitude which in ... Read More July 26, 2010 at 04:30 PM | from R.C. Sproul Jr.
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Orlando Sentinel Profiles R.C. Sproul & the Influence of "New Calvinism"
This past weekend, the Orlando Sentinel ran a story profiling R.C. Sproul and his ministry. Partly driven from Time magazine's 2009 declaration of "New Calvinism" as one of the "10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now," the article looks at the building of Saint Andrew's, where Sproul is currently senior minister of preaching and teaching, the announcement of the Bible college at Ligonier Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies, and how a 71-year old theologian is influencing a young generation of conservatives. Read More July 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM | from Karisa Schlehr
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Christ & Culture Revisited
In the first centuries following the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah and the inauguration of the new covenant under which the people of God became a trans-national people crossing all borders, the church had few choices in the matter of her relationship to the surrounding culture. The options were limited due to persecution. As the church gained in numbers and influence, however, the situation began to change. Read More July 26, 2010 at 07:00 AM | from Keith Mathison
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Putting Your Faith in Action
The organized church is torn with strife and distrust. Ultimately, the battle is not so much between conservatives and liberals, evangelicals and activists, or fundamentalists and modernists. The issue now is between belief and unbelief: Is Christianity true or false, real or unreal? Read More July 25, 2010 at 07:00 AM | from R.C. Sproul
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Embracing the Truth
Openness to truth where truth may be found is a long-standing virtue that worked on the assumption that there is such a thing as objective truth, to which we should be open. Students of higher education now taught one overarching virtue: to be “open.” The purpose of their education is not to make them scholars but to provide them with a moral virtue—an openness, a relativism that eschews any form of fixed objective values or truth. Its simplistic creed is ... Read More July 24, 2010 at 07:00 AM | from R.C. Sproul
