Blame It on Babylon by Kevin DeYoung

FROM TABLETALK | October 2011

In the book of Revelation, Babylon is a symbol of all that’s wrong in the world. It’s the system, the way things are in a sinful creation. Babylon is worldliness. If you study Revelation 17, you’ll notice …Read More

Chariots of Iron by Justin Estrada

FROM TABLETALK | December 2011

The author of Judges tells us that when the tribe of Judah descended into the lowlands to conquer the indigenous Canaanites inhabiting their tribal allotment, they failed to drive them out completely due to the Canaanites’ tactical advantage of iron …Read More

Living in Light of the Gospel: An Interview with Paul David Tripp by Paul David Tripp

FROM TABLETALK | September 2011

Tabletalk: Tell us a little about Paul Tripp Ministries and your call to a ministry of counseling. Paul David Tripp: Let me say first that the name of the ministry is not what it is because I think that …Read More

Eyes to See by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | January 2012

It was my habit — my sophomoric habit — to proudly argue from my ignorance that we ought always to consider last things last. That is, recognizing the great difficulty in grasping the meaning of the end times and the final book …Read More

Seven Applications of Revelation by Dennis Johnson

FROM TABLETALK | January 2012

Why did God give us the book of Revelation? If you had asked me this question when I was a young Christian, I might have said, “To help us discover when Jesus will return to earth,” “To help us make …Read More

Truly Spiritual Disciplines by Donald Whitney

FROM TABLETALK | January 2011

As you’ve surely noticed, everyone is “spiritual” today. I saw a USA Today survey that found even a majority of atheists consider themselves “spiritual” people. Come to think of it, I’ve never heard anyone say, “You know, I …Read More

Resolved by the Grace of God by Burk Parsons

FROM TABLETALK | January 2009

When I was nineteen years old, I joined the staff of a large evangelical church. A few of the pastors on the staff became wonderful friends and mentors, but as I encountered some of the pastors at that church and …Read More

Fear Not by R.C. Sproul

We are fragile mortals, given to fears of every sort. We have a built-in insecurity that no amount of whistling in the dark can mollify. We seek assurance concerning the things that frighten us the most.

The prohibition uttered more …Read More

The Privilege of Assurance by Roger Nicole

The privilege of assurance, which is secured by the work of Christ for His own and which is properly undergirded in the Reformed faith, is damaged or even destroyed in certain other theological structures.

I. When justification by faith alone …Read More

True & False Assurance by John Gerstner

Probably Romans 8:16 is the greatest assurance text in the entire Bible. It is appealed to by Reformed and Arminian evangelicals alike, though they have conflicting ideas of assurance.

Romans 8:16 reads, “The Spirit Himself testifies with our …Read More

Assurance by John de Witt

FROM TABLETALK | February 1992

What does a pastor think about assurance? By assurance here I mean the certainty that through Jesus Christ one is a child of God: forgiven, renewed, having eternal life. I cannot speak for others, but I can give my thoughts …Read More

I Believe in Doubt by Os Guinness

FROM TABLETALK | January 1992

“A man may be haunted with doubts and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have …Read More

Drawing the Line: Why Doctrine Matters by R. Scott Clark

FROM TABLETALK | July 2012

Imagine Mike. He’s an unusual mechanic. Where other mechanics find natural laws (such as gravity) unavoidable and even useful, he suspects them to be arbitrary, invoked in order to stifle his creativity. We can imagine how the story ends …Read More

Castles in the Sand by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | July 2012

There are, when we disagree, almost always two disagreements. Most of the time the smaller disagreement is the bigger one. Consider election. There are some in the church who believe that God chooses who will believe His gospel. There are …Read More

Someone is Wrong on the Internet by R.C. Sproul Jr.

FROM TABLETALK | May 2012

It takes two to tango, and that doesn’t even include the band. Our choices, our behaviors, are rarely as discreet as we think they are. Not only do our decisions bleed into our other decisions, they touch on other …Read More