Articles & Resources

The Christian Life

  • Time to Talk or Fish

    Talkers are cheap, thinkers abound, and philosophers are a dime a gross, but doers are exceedingly rare, and only doers get things done.

  • Iron Into His Soul

    As long as we keep our eyes on the unseen but almighty God, our Shield and Strength, the all-powerful ruler of the universe who sits between the cherubim we can walk on water. When we look at the size of the enemy, the war, and our own strength, we sink.

  • Jesus Rocks! Or Does He?

    Baptised self-centeredness, self-promotion, and self-indulgence. Some of it is merely silly, the rest, pernicious.

  • Studying God

    The wisdom of God, the things of God, come wrapped in a mystery, hidden from the world but revealed to us by his Spirit.

  • Temptations

    How can we ever doubt that Christ is leading us from victory to victory?

  • Two Cautions and a Cure

    If there is just one idea we ought to burn into our present memories, it is this: “Rest easy—God is caring for you, so don’t worry.”

  • The Only Thing That Matters

    No fruit is worse than really good fruit gone rotten. The perversion of virtue is worse than mere vice.

  • Calvin on Babies

    “Surely thou didst draw me forth from the womb, and thou didst cause me to confide upon the breasts of my mother. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.”

  • The Family

    Even though we know that the Scriptures contain everything we need for life and godliness, sometimes they seem to present only a riddle. Where do we find the key? The Scriptures themselves always offer us a key to that riddle, so that even the simplest can understand.

  • Sound Sense or Utopian Nonsense?

    At the busy corner of Summer Avenue and Sycamore View in Memphis stands a historic marker headlined, "Nashoba." In a few brief sentences it recounts the story of Frances Wright’s failed socialist colony in the 1820s.