Crumbs from the Master's Table

The Atlantic recently published How Reliable Are Psychology Studies?  It's an illuminating article, well worth your time, with helpful a...

A redemptive strategy for engaging readers and hearers is summed up in these six communication tasks: 1. Know the people with whom you are...

Powlison: Our struggles and temptations are more alike than different. An elderly man facing a health crisis is tempted to worry in ways s...

"'Do not be afraid' is the most frequent command in the Bible." —David Powlison, "Where Do You Start," CCEF No...

Iain Provan: The fundamental idolatry described by the Bible lies also at the heart of the varied modern idolatries: the idolatry of the s...

Calvin: Let us fight for the cause of righteousness, that is to say, for what is just. It is not enough to make an indiscriminate peace. T...

David Wells: The language of the self is not interchangeable with human nature. They are two entirely different things. The self is the wa...

David Wells: The majesty of God's forgiveness is lost entirely when we lose what has to be forgiven. What has to be forgiven is not ju...

Since the 1960s, the self has been at the center. David Wells pens about a consequence of this sad state of affairs, and a significant prob...

"The challenge of love, of course, is that it is so multi-faceted. It runs the gamut from taking a bullet for someone to kicking them o...

Over at  CCEF  you'll find good counsel (as usual) from David Powlison on responding to criticism in marriage.

Speaking of the implications of Christ's victory in the cross over Satan, Sinclair Ferguson discusses these under four headings: theolog...

"In America, we have one-third of the world's psychiatrists, two psychotherapists for every dentist, and more counselors than libra...

The good Doctor on dietetics: Now you will often come across people who advocate ways of living or methods of treating diseases which comp...

Lloyd-Jones: The simplest description of the five books of Psalms is that they were the inspired prayer-and-praise book of Israel. They ar...

Lloyd-Jones: Avoid the mistake of concentrating overmuch upon your feelings. Above all, avoid the terrible error of making them central. ....

Lloyd-Jones: How are we to deal with this problem of feelings? I shall put forward a number of suggestions. The first is a very practical ...

Lloyd-Jones: There is only one way to get rid of self, and that is that you should become so absorbed in someone or something else that yo...

 Lloyd-Jones: There is no profounder change in the universe than the change which is described as regeneration; but regeneration—the work ...

Non-charismatics have their faith healers too, you know. That is, "conservative" Evangelicalism looks to faith doctors as well for...