Dear Friend, One year to the day before my closing Sunday at Parkside, we began studying John chapter 17 together. Archbishop William Temple described the chapter as being perhaps the most sacred passage in all…
Imagine that you’re waiting at the gates of heaven, and you’re asked, “Why should we let you in?” What would you say? In his popular evangelism book The Man on the Middle Cross, Alistair explores…
Some days in the Christian life can feel like episodes of a soap opera, with twists and turns, changing allegiances, and a cliffhanger leaving us wondering what will happen next: “I know that Jesus has loved me…
“The relationship into which we have been brought with Jesus Christ is an indissoluble union that will last for all of eternity. We have been immediately and amazingly joined to Jesus Christ.” ——Alistair Begg Click…
In the opening verses of Ruth, we read about the tragic triple bereavement of one of the book’s central figures, Naomi: “In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land” (v.…
As he reached the end of Romans 8, Paul presented a triumphant closing argument, grounding Christian assurance in God’s decisive action in Christ. Because God did not spare His own Son, believers can be confident…
Few stories declare God’s sovereignty over all circumstances more powerfully than the Bible’s dramatic account of Joseph as recorded in the book of Genesis. His story is one of twists and turns that include jealousy,…
In his epistle, after a barbed warning against false teachers amid the congregation, Jude suddenly takes a gentler tone: “Have mercy on those who doubt” (v. 22). This is not so different from the Pauline…
Writing to the Christians of first-century Rome, the apostle Paul acknowledged that creation, believers, and even the Spirit Himself groan in hopeful anticipation of final renewal. Present suffering is real, Scripture affirms—but it is eclipsed…
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