Crumbs from the Master's Table

With all the buzz about doing evangelism in the church today, it would be helpful if the church exercised a bit more insight and genuine nei...

"Budget and plan for an ordinary span of years, but in spirit be packed up and ready to leave at any time" (J. I. Packer, Affirmin...

"We believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 15:11). This was the testimony of the apostles at the Chu...

Vanhoozer: Preaching is a means of grace because it presents, and makes present, Christ and what is in Christ. In so doing, it reminds lis...

Ferguson on the structure of John Owen's thought about the ministry of the Spirit of Christ to the believer: The Spirit brings us into...

I recently finished reading through yet again the Gospel according to John, for something like the thirtieth time since I came first to know...

If Kevin Vanhoozer is right (and I think he is) in saying—"The church is the place not only where the gospel is heard but also where it...

Vanhoozer: Local churches would do well to give an even greater role and prominence to the Lord's Supper, perhaps by celebrating it on...

"One of the most important ways disciples act out the reconciliation that is in Christ is by practicing marital fidelity" (Vanhooz...

Have you ever read Mark 2:18–22 and scratched your head wondering what on earth Jesus is talking about? I have. Repeatedly. What do his illu...

With the recent revelations and growing scandal vis-à-vis Planned Barrenhood, Doug Wilson  continues to write to keep the troops moving apac...

Here's a portion from Timothy P. George's powerful piece over at Patheos, "A Franciscan Moment,"  which speaks into the di...

In " Charity Contrary to an Angry Spirit ," preached in 1738, Edwards speaks of what God-centered anger looks like: If men's...

Mark Dever's post " How to Survive a Cultural Crisis " over at The Gospel Coalition is well worth your time to read. Here...

Packer: The notion which the phrase "penal substitution" expresses is that Jesus Christ our Lord, moved by a love that was deter...

"A Christian spirit and a gospel spirit are the same. That is the spirit to which the Christian revelation tends." —Jonathan Edw...

I just read through Leviticus 13 before going into work today. What can all of this clean and unclean business possibly mean, not least for ...

"Love of benevolence is that disposition which a man has who desires or delights in the good of another. And this is the main thing in ...

Commenting on the situation in Corinth that Paul is confronting in 2 Cor. 10:1ff, Professor Carson draws out this important contemporary app...

Amid much confusion in the modern world about what it means to be a Christian (yes even, lamentably, in "Christian" churches), I o...