Crumbs from the Master's Table

Baxter: Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some ...

"It may even come about that a man's most genuinely Christian actions fall entirely outside that part of his life which he calls re...

"Here indeed is pure and real religion: faith so joined with an earnest fear of God that this fear also embraces willing reverence, and...

One of the great needs during trials of various sorts that God sends us is to keep one's head and remain cool and calm. To put it anothe...

"Over the gates of Plato's school, it was written: 'Let no one who is not a geometrician enter.' But very different is the ...

The Songs of Ascents (120–134) are among my favorite portions of Scripture. And Psalm 128 is one of my favorites among these songs. These so...

Calvin: I call "piety" that reverence joined with love of God which the knowledge of his benefits induces. For until men recogni...

The parallel descriptions in Ps. 33:18—“those who fear him,” and “those who hope in his steadfast love”—show something of the breadth and d...

"Let us not be ashamed to submit our understanding to God's boundless wisdom so far as to yield before its many secrets. For, of th...

Acts 9:31 states one of a handful of summary statements that Luke provides periodically throughout the book of Acts. And I just wish to poin...

Owen: All the flagitious [villainous] sins that the world is filled withal are not a greater evidence of the degeneracy of the Christian r...

Pius IV, hearing of Calvin's death, exlaimed: "Ah, the strength of that proud heretic lay in this, that riches and honour were no...

Piper: The biblical criterion for misplaced shame and for well-placed shame is radically God-centered. The biblical criterion for misplace...

The argument that David Wells makes in his book— The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern Worl...

The fear of God is rare nowadays. Teaching on it is scarce. And the living of it out is even more scarce. And, even where it is taught and w...

In his Treatise on the Fear of God , John Bunyan speaks of the grace of the fear of God in the fourth section of the book. In what follows, ...

Here's the congregational prayer at  NCC  from this past Ascension Sunday and Mother's Day, shaped by Psalm 8: O YHWH, our Lord, h...

Piper on cowardice in the pastorate: We are surrounded in America by people like [the chief priests and elders in Matt. 21:23-27]. Instead...

C. H. Spurgeon on a man's public conduct as a preacher called of God: My brethren, if the Lord has indeed ordained you to the ministry...

"One of the most urgently needed things today is a careful treatment of how the gospel, biblically and richly understood, ought to shap...