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The religion of most men lies in the marketplace and in the view of others; their hearts, their closets are not privy to any secret transactions between God and their souls, and in the praise of men ...

There is a great necessity lies upon the prophets and ministers of Christ to Preach, and to preach home to the conscience. Warn them they must, and so warn them that they may take notice; else it i ...

God is the grand teacher. This is the reason the word preached works so differently upon men: two in a pew — the one is wrought upon effectually, the other lies at the ordinances as a dead child at ...

By God’s withdrawing from His people, He prevents His people’s withdrawing from Him; and so by an affliction He prevents sin. For God to withdraw from me is but my affliction, but for me to withdra ...

November’s free e-book giveaway is here!Be Reconciled with God presents twelve rare sermons preached by Andrew Gray.Known as “the youngest Puritan,” Gray entered the ministry at only 19 years old. W ...

So if you feed not the soul diligently and use not the means constantly, you will breed weakness in the soul, and the more secure and remiss you are in the performance of holy duties, the weaker you ...

What are the signs of sincerity?First, if a man love the light of the word and come to it that his deeds may be made manifest (John 3:21).Second, if he be obedient in the absence as well as in the p ...

For the mortification of any distemper so rooted in the nature of a man unto all other ways and means already named or further to be insisted on, there is one expedient peculiarly suited. This is t ...

If God did not know all future things, he would be mutable in His knowledge. If He did not know all things that ever were or are to be, there would be upon the appearance of every new object and add ...

A remarkable statistic is that there are almost an identical number of English speakers in England as there are English speakers in the Philippines. Yet, despite the efforts of some excellent minist ...

So today, again, the paradox, or my title, The Paradox of Suffering and Sovereignty in King Jesus, I will focus largely on the concluding prayer of Paul in Ephesians chapter 1. That will be the bas ...

John Knox was born in Scotland in about 1514. So he was only about three years old when the Protestant Reformation started in Germany in 1517. Converted to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism in 15 ...

When the Puritans convened the Westminster Assembly in 1653, their goal was not simply to systematize Reformed doctrine. These men, many of whom were pastors, desired to establish a foundation for g ...

In his magisterial collection of 145 sermons on John 17, Puritan Anthony Burgess addresses countless questions regarding salvation, Christology, and prayer. As he exposits verse 5 of this “High Prie ...

Practical Steps for an Organized and Effective Prayer Life The apostle Paul prayed constantly for believers and churches all over the world. Paul was a remarkably busy person whose life was full of c ...

If you could sum up 2020 in one word, what would it be? For me, the word is “fear.” I felt its presence in response to news of the novel coronavirus, as it crept its way across the ...

Our CEO at Reformation Heritage Books, David Woollin, recently visited Kenya this past April as the featured speaker at the Passion for Mission Conference hosted by Trinity Baptist Church, Nairo ...

The book of 2 Timothy self attests to being written by the Apostle Paul at the end of his life to encourage Timothy to continue Gospel ministry in the face of hardship by joining fearlessly in Paul ...

As the Shorter Catechism unfolds the story of redemption, it gives a decidedly Trinitarian answer to the question, “How is man saved?” This is fitting, of course, since the Bible itself gives a Tri ...

“The conviction of our sin against a holy God is the starting place of all true religion.” The heart of Christianity is not following rules to earn life, it is looking to God for the forgiveness of ...

In contemporary popular Christianity, many church members are nominal Christians. They are ignorant of the faith’s biblical foundations, the history of the church, and the content of classical Chris ...

Brakel was a Dutch minister during the time of the Further Reformation (Nadere Reformatie) in the Netherlands (1600-1750). The Further Reformation coincided with the Puritan movement in England. Sad ...

“One astonishing yet unappreciated truth of Christianity is that salvation in Jesus Christ contains not just future heavenly life but also present transformation by the Spirit. God changes the beli ...

We are constantly faced with the reality of loss. Almost daily, newspaper headlines and TV screens broadcast tales of the ultimate, irrevocable loss—death: it’s the calamity brought upon us by the f ...

John Winthrop's sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity," is an enduring masterpiece of Puritan literature. This sermon, delivered in 1630 aboard the ship Arbella, continues to resonate today, thanks ...

There are some definite problems with the modern evangelical church’s approach to worship. Zip lines, motorcycles, trampolines, and other gimmicks aside, there is a sentimental ethos present in man ...

Throughout much of church history only “religious workers” had callings. Ordinary people simply had jobs. But Scripture tells us that all believers are, in fact, “servants of the Lord” (Ps. 113:1). G ...

John Owen on Communing with God in the Ordinances of Corporate WorshipJohn Owen (1616-1683) earned the title “Prince of Puritans” because of his influence as pastor, prolific author, theologian, aca ...

The gospel is most certainly to be believed, studied, and exemplified in our lives, yet the great emphasis in the New Testament is on proclaiming it. At the very beginning of His earthly minist ...