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  • What Is Discernment?

    from Sinclair Ferguson May 20, 2019 Category: Articles

    Discernment is like the physical senses; to some it is given in unusual measure as a special grace gift (1 Cor. 12:10), but some measure of it is essential for us all and must be constantly nourished. The Christian must take care to develop his "sixth sense" of spiritual discernment. This is why the psalmist prays, "Teach me good judgment and knowledge" (Ps. 119:66). Keep Reading

  • The Garden of Eden, Legalism, and Antinomianism

    from Sinclair Ferguson May 01, 2019 Category: Ligonier Resources

    In this brief clip from our 2017 National Conference, Sinclair Ferguson discusses the relationship between Satan's lie in the garden and legalism and antinomianism. Keep Reading

  • How to Mortify Sin

    from Sinclair Ferguson Apr 29, 2019 Category: Articles

    My friend — a younger minister — sat down with me at the end of a conference in his church and said: "Before we retire tonight, just take me through the steps that are involved in helping someone mortify sin." Keep Reading

  • Enjoying God Is a Command

    from Sinclair Ferguson Apr 10, 2019 Category: Articles

    While shaking hands at the church door, ministers are sometimes greeted with a spontaneous, "I really enjoyed that!"—which is immediately followed by, "Oh! I shouldn't really say that, should I?" I usually grip tighter, hold the handshake a little longer, and say with a smile, "Doesn't the catechism's first question encourage us to do that? If we are to enjoy Him forever, why not begin now?"   Keep Reading

  • The Early Symptoms of Spiritual Danger

    from Sinclair Ferguson Mar 25, 2019 Category: Articles

    The solemn fact is that none of us can tell the difference between the beginning of backsliding and the beginning of apostasy. Both look the same. So what are the tell-tale signs of this sickness unto death? Are there early symptoms that might alert us to our spiritual danger? Keep Reading

  • Christian, Do You Love God’s Law?

    from Sinclair Ferguson Jan 25, 2019 Category: Articles

    Neither Jesus nor Paul had a problem with the law. Paul wrote that his gospel of grace upholds and establishes the law (Rom. 3:31)—even God's laws in their negative form, since the "grace of God . . . teaches us to say 'No'" (Titus 2:11–12 NIV). And remember Jesus' words in Matthew 5:17–19? Our attitude to the law is a litmus test of our relationship to the kingdom of God. Keep Reading

  • The Privileges That Are Ours

    from Sinclair Ferguson Jan 09, 2019 Category: Articles

    The letter to the Hebrews, as our studies throughout the year have shown, is full of Old Testament language and ritual. Running throughout it is an ongoing sense that as believers we are on the move, on a pilgrimage through the wilderness. This motif echoes in our ears as we turn the pages. We are seeking to reach the land of rest (4:1). Indeed we can already come near enough to see the throne of its King (4:16; 10:19). It is the throne of grace before which Christ our High Priest stands. So we run the race before us with perseverance, our eyes fixed on Him (12:1–2). Keep Reading

  • Does Christology Matter?

    from Sinclair Ferguson Jan 04, 2019 Category: Articles

    “We all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us one and the same Son, the self-same perfect in Godhead, the self-same perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man … acknowledged in two natures, unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably … the properties of each nature being preserved.” Keep Reading

  • The Great Exchanges of Romans

    from Sinclair Ferguson Nov 28, 2018 Category: Articles

    When the wonder of the gospel breaks into your life, you feel as though you are the first person to discover its power and glory. Where has Christ been hidden all these years? He seems so fresh, so new, so full of grace. Then comes a second discovery—it is you who have been blind, but now you have experienced exactly the same as countless others before you. You compare notes. Sure enough, you are not the first! Thankfully you will not be the last.   Keep Reading

  • Apostasy and How it Happens

    from Sinclair Ferguson Nov 07, 2018 Category: Articles

    I can still recall the conversation although it took place more than three decades ago. A shocked friend asked, "Have you heard that Sarah is no longer a Christian?" What was so alarming to my friend was that Sarah had been one of the most influential, and apparently fruitful, members of her Inter-Varsity group. What would those who had been influenced by her witness to Christ say, or do? Would they be shaken to the core and now doubt their own Christian faith? After all, the person who had pointed them to Christ no longer trusted Him.   Keep Reading
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