Ligonier Ministries The teaching fellowship of R.C. Sproul

Contrary to some assumptions, the Lord's Table is not for everyone. It is a blessed sacrament, like baptism, given to the church as a sign of God's faithfulness to His promises and an assurance in the heart of the one to whom the promises are given. Keep Reading

Ideas have consequences. Since the dawn of Western philosophy, we have witnessed the good, the bad, and the ugly of this axiom. Keep Reading

Peter gives us two truths worth remembering as motivations for our pursuit of holiness. Keep Reading

To understand election is to see it as the act of a sovereign, gracious, eternally loving God. It is a demonstration of His desire to be in a faithful covenantal relationship with a people. Though knowing these people to be disobedient, sinful, and wayward, He chooses to set His affection on them so as to show and exalt His love and mercy throughout eternity. Keep Reading

The Bible is full of epochal events, those grand, earth-altering instances that stand out as high points of redemptive history. In the Old Testament, no event is so dramatic and game-changing as Israel's redemption from Egypt.   Keep Reading

As powerful as sin is, the blood of Christ is more powerful still. In Christ, the chains of our captivity have been broken, and the light of His grace has shone the way of freedom. But how has He freed us? Christ has secured our freedom because, in the shedding of His blood, He operated in the divinely ordained munus triplex, the threefold office of Prophet, Priest, and King. This is why He is called "the faithful witness" (as Prophet); "the firstborn of the dead" (as Priest); and "the ruler of kings on earth" (as King) in Revelation 1:5. In the threefold office of Christ, we are granted our freedom from sin. Keep Reading

The Spirit of God is the Holy Spirit. Wherever He comes, He comes with holiness and sanctification. Here we see that the loving goal of our sanctification is that the Spirit will change us. Keep Reading

Why did Christ die for us? Yes, He died because we needed to be saved. But even more glorious is that He died to demonstrate God's love in saving us. Keep Reading

Dead works are the works of our hands. These are works of selfrighteousness, and they are appropriately called "dead" works because they lead to death. Keep Reading

The requirement for ascending to the place of God in worship is that our hands are clean and our hearts purified. The question then becomes, "Who has clean hands and a pure heart?" Keep Reading