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Standing for Truth – J.C. Ryle

Karen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:31 +0000

Let us resist false doctrine, and contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. Let us not be ashamed of showing our colors and standing out for New Testament truth. Let us not be stopped by the cuckoo cry of “controversy.” The thief likes dogs that do not bark, and watchmen that give no alarm. The devil is a [Continue reading ...]

The Jesus You Can’t Ignore

Karen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:21:13 +0000

by Mike Ratliff

While I was on my Christmas break, I bought and began reading John MacArthur’s 2008 book The Jesus You Can’t Ignore. As I stated in another post, I was in the process of rereading the biography of William Tyndale by David Daniell when I bought and began reading this book. It was as if God was showing me through the persecuted life of William Tyndale that [Continue reading ...]

Being A Good Servant of Jesus Christ in the Midst of Apostasy

Karen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:15:28 +0000

It is one thing to confess Christ or profess to be a Christian and quite another to live and walk before the face of God within that confession or profession in obedience to God and His Word. There are so many in our time who claim to be Christians, but whose lives are marked by them speaking and living according to the world and its ways. I, like [Continue reading ...]

Cross Exchanged For A Crown

Karen — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:00:46 +0000

Humbling and painful as these truths may sound, it is good for all of us to realize them and take them to heart. The houses we live in, the homes we love, the riches we accumulate, the professions we follow, the plans we formulate, the relations we enter into—they are only for a time. “What is seen is temporary.” “This world in its present form is [Continue reading ...]

This Must Be a Soldiers Battle

Karen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:00:56 +0000

Finding ourselves in a community which had no articles of faith, and seeing deadly error rising up, we had no course but to withdraw. Whether others think fit to do so or not is no part of our responsibility; but nothing can free any true believer from the duty of maintaining pure and undefiled religion in its doctrine, as well as in its practice, [Continue reading ...]

A Call Back To Truth

Karen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:15:23 +0000

An interview, conducted September 2007, with theologian John MacArthur, about the state of the church, heralding a call back to truth of the pure Word of God (Proverbs 30:5-6), of which is a timely reminder with regard to today’s Emergent Church “Emergence Christianity” …

A Call Back To Truth

While Martin Luther called the church back to the truth of Scripture and the simplicity of the gospel, modern [Continue reading ...]

Hold Fast That Which Is Good

Karen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:30:27 +0000

Hold Fast

J.C. Ryle

(1816-1900)

“Hold fast that which is good.” 1 Thessalonians 5:21

There are few things in religion which men are so ready to forget as the duty of “contending earnestly for the faith,” and holding fast the truth.

Controversy is seldom popular. Most men like a quiet life in religion. They dislike anything like strife, trouble, contest, and exertion. They will give [Continue reading ...]

The Truth War

Karen — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:45:06 +0000

From the Reading Room …

In 2007, my reading of “The Truth War,” in particular, affirmed, once again, the urgent exhortation of Jude, indeed, as true believers of the Word of God, having faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and being true followers of Him alone, we are to defend the truth and earnestly contend for the faith, as it is written: Jude 1:3-4

Herewith, a [Continue reading ...]

Contending for the Faith (2)

Karen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:50:18 +0000

Contending for the faith requires the diligent practice of discernment. In Hebrews 5:13-14 we find, “For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” The “milk” and [Continue reading ...]

Contending for the Faith (1)

Karen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:07:08 +0000

“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” Jude 1:3

Originally, Jude wanted to share those things of the faith with his fellow believers which were common to them all. But the Holy Spirit [Continue reading ...]