What is it “to praise the glory of his grace”?

Charles Hodge answers: ‘The glory of grace’ is the divine excellence of that attribute manifested as an object of admiration.  The glory of God is the manifested excellence of God, and the glory of any one of his attributes is the manifestation of that attribute as an object of praise.  The design of redemption, therefore, [...]

Churches Today Do Not Have This Effect

Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day.  However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect.  The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones.  We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people.  The licentious and [...]

A Must Watch Sermon on 1 Corinthians 1.26-31

By John Piper.  Some have quipped, even in the seminary classroom, how Piper has but one sermon.  Well, that may be true, but I can’t for the life of me see anything wrong with that one sermon.  For that one sermon, I believe, approaches the content and joy of that one sermon and song that [...]

A Lecture on Regeneration

Posted under “Other Writings” tab above. From the introduction: Last week I mentioned that I doubted whether there were any more important doctrines to recover, know and experience than the doctrines of God, Christ, depravity, and regeneration.  That was confirmed again this week in a lecture by Adam Greenway, when he identified the lack of [...]

Lecture on the Fall of Man

Added within “Other Writings” tab above. From the Introduction: On July 8, 1741, a well-known preacher and theologian found himself in Enfield, Connecticut on a missionary tour.  That day he had chosen as his text Deuteronomy 32:35, “Their foot shall slide in due time.”  This was his introduction . . . (399-400).  The sermon was [...]

Reflections on Genesis 6:5: Depravity and Grace

In the past couple of weeks, the Lord has grabbed my heart for meditation upon four verses in particular: Genesis 6:5, Psalm 42:2, Isaiah 42:3, and Hebrews 12:14.  Over the next couple of days, I hope to post some reflections upon them in that order. Genesis 6:5, “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man [...]

It Matters How We Get There

In a recent theological conversation, the topic inevitably moved to the sovereignty of God in salvation, otherwise known as the debate between Calvinism and Arminianism.  It matters not what was discussed from the beginning of the conversation up until the end, but what was claimed at the end.  The end was this: we both agreed, [...]

Zaccheus and Sovereign Grace

Discoursed this morning from Luke 19:1-10 on the subject of that text, which speaks so clearly of sovereign grace, that freedom which belongs to God whereby He authoritatively effects saving favor on whomever He wills according to His purpose and for His glory.  The record of Zaccheus is another notch in the history of sovereign [...]

Wonderful Sermon on Ruth 1

It is not surprising that the preacher is John Piper.  He is truly blessed of God to preach and expose the meaning of God’s Word.  Though I suppose I should be more thankful that God is God, rather than in the fact that God has given a man like Piper to His church.  Indeed, his [...]

Piper on the Importance of Calvin Today

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