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Suffering Taught Him to Look to Christ

Suffering Taught Him to Look to Christ

Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892)

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A Prayer for Every Hour

A Prayer for Every Hour

The Lord’s Prayer isn’t mainly about us getting what we need, but about God getting what he deserves: the honor due his name.

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My Girlfriend Is Pregnant — What Do I Do Next?

My Girlfriend Is Pregnant — What Do I Do Next?

My Girlfriend Is Pregnant — What Do I Do Next?

A premarital pregnancy means a couple has chosen sin over God. But it doesn’t mean they need to continue to make that choice.

God Will Renew Your Joy in Ministry: Three Lessons from Decades of Weakness

God Will Renew Your Joy in Ministry: Three Lessons from Decades of Weakness

God Will Renew Your Joy in Ministry

Three Lessons from Decades of Weakness

How can we who lead find joy and renewal and energy along the way? God has consistently strengthened this pastor in at least three ways.

The Joy We Know Only in Suffering

The Joy We Know Only in Suffering

The Joy We Know Only in Suffering

God will look magnificent in the desert of our suffering when our joy in him rises while everything around us crumbles.

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How to Worship God in Vain

How to Worship God in Vain

Anyone can walk into a sanctuary and raise hands in response to music. Anyone can sing lyrics on a screen. But not everyone is truly worshiping God.

The Joy of Overlooking an Offense

The Joy of Overlooking an Offense

The Joy of Overlooking an Offense

God leaves his people in a world full of annoyances so that they might respond differently and show they have a happiness that soars above the petty.

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Does Premarital Pregnancy Nullify ‘Unequally Yoked’?

Does Premarital Pregnancy Nullify ‘Unequally Yoked’?

God clearly calls believers to marry only believers. But does a premarital pregnancy introduce an exception?

Spend Thirty Minutes in Heaven: Lessons on Meditation from Richard Baxter

Spend Thirty Minutes in Heaven

Lessons on Meditation from Richard Baxter

Some Christians would love God more ardently and the people in their life more selflessly, if they read fewer verses each day and thought more.

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Proverbs 26:7–9: How to Understand Proverbs

How to Understand Proverbs

Proverbs 26:7–9

Give wisdom to a wise man, and he will grow wiser. Give wisdom to a fool, and he will hurt himself and others.

What Netflix Cannot Give — and Death Cannot Take

What Netflix Cannot Give — and Death Cannot Take

Joy is not a participation trophy in the Christian life. It is a prize to be won, an animal to be caught, a treasure we sacrifice whatever necessary to have.

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Use Anxiety to Your Advantage

Ask God to shift your anxieties from the things of this world to the things God is concerned about. When you are tempted, practice the shift.

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Those Whom He Predestined He Also Called

The Supremacy of God in Preaching

The Supremacy of God in Preaching

Revised and Expanded for 2015

This book is a passionate plea to preachers who want to touch the hidden cry of their hearers’ souls: “Show me your glory!”