Ligonier Ministries The teaching fellowship of R.C. Sproul

The words justification and sanctification have largely fallen out of use in Western culture. Sadly, they are also fading from sight in the Christian church. Keep Reading

The first of these accounts contains the words of Jesus to Ananias in Damascus; the second, Ananias’ words to Saul in Damascus; the third, Jesus’ words to Saul on the Damascus Road. Keep Reading

"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!" "Marvelous grace of our loving Lord, grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt." "Wonderful grace of Jesus, greater than all my sin; how shall my tongue describe it, where shall its praise begin?" Keep Reading

Skeptics have long questioned or denied the historicity of Adam. We may frame the issue in the form of two related questions. First, does the Bible require us to believe that Adam was a historical person? Second, would anything be lost in the gospel if we were to deny Adam's historicity? Keep Reading

Since my son is now only a year or two from entering elementary school, I look forward to sharing with him the historical treasures of the Reformed faith. In a culture that pants after the new and that wearies of the old, the church ought to be one place that prizes her own history. We prize history not because we are arcane antiquarians but because we are called to run our race "surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses." God has something to teach both our children and us from the halls of history. Keep Reading

Near the close of the 1976 U.S. Presidential campaign, Newsweek magazine famously declared 1976 the “Year of the Evangelical.” In subsequent years, Jerry Falwell’s “Moral Majority,” Pat Robertson’s “Christian Coalition,” and James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” assumed leading roles on the stage of American political life. Each strongly identified with the Republican party and conservative public policy.   Keep Reading

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 1 out of every 10 adult Americans currently suffers from depression. Depression is not confined to the United States. The World Health Organization describes depression as “common” in the world today, affecting an estimated 121 million persons. If we were to consider those who have not been clinically diagnosed with depression, but who suffer periodically from mild forms of depression, these figures would undoubtedly swell. Keep Reading