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Part 16 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Psalm 1.
9 May 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 28
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 28.
7 May 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 27
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 27.
7 May 2026
God’s Blessing Precedes Godliness
Part 15 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Psalm 1.
2 May 2026
Part 14 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Psalm 1.
25 April 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 26
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 26.
27 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 25
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 25.
27 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 24
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 24.
27 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 23
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 23.
27 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Questions 29 & 30
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Questions 29 and 30.
24 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Questions 21 & 22
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Questions 20 and 22.
24 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 20
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 20.
2 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 19
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 19.
2 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 18
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 18.
1 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 17
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 17.
1 January 2026
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 16
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 16.
1 January 2026
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26 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 15
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 15.
25 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 14
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 14.
25 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 13
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 13.
25 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 12
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 12.
24 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 11
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 11.
24 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 10
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 10.
22 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 9
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 9.
22 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 8
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 8.
22 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 7
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 7.
22 December 2025
Part 13 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms.
20 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 6
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 6.
16 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 5
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 5.
15 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 4
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 4.
13 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 3
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 3.
13 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 2
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 2.
12 December 2025
An Help for the Ignorant, WSC Question 1
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 1.
12 December 2025
Exposition of the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
11 December 2025
Part 12 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Psalm 110.
6 December 2025
Part 11 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Psalm 110.
22 November 2025
Part 10 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Psalm 110.
8 November 2025
Part 9 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Psalm 110.
1 November 2025
The Lord Jesus Christ in The Psalms
Part 8 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On finding Christ everywhere in the Book of Psalms.
21 July 2025
The Old Testament Scriptures and The Christian
Part 7 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On all Scripture being for the Christian.
1 July 2025
Fellowcitizens with the Saints in Israel
Part 6 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On the unity of the people of God.
11 June 2025
From The Assembly’s Shorter Catechism Explained, by Way of Question and Answer, by James Fisher and other Ministers of the Gospel.
9 May 2025
Questions and answers on what the fear of God is, what it is not, what it works in us, how it should affect our daily life, and what God’s blessing is upon those who fear him.
8 May 2025
Questions and answers on what godly sorrow is, what it is not, what true repentance involves, and what is the hope of the godly sorrower.
8 May 2025
Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Part 5 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Ephesians 5:18-19 and Colossians 3:16.
2 May 2025
Part 4 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Ephesians 5:18-19 and Colossians 3:16.
3 April 2025
Part 3 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Ephesians 5:18-19 and Colossians 3:16.
12 March 2025
Godly Living and the Worship of God
Part 2 of a series on The Christian and The Psalms. On Ephesians 5:18-19 and Colossians 3:16.
1 February 2025
Introduction to a new series.
27 December 2024
“Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.”
2 May 2024
Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness
This gentle kindness comes only from the work of the Holy Spirit in the souls of the Lord’s people.
26 March 2024
From John Brown’s “Self-Interpreting Bible,” a study on the Lord’s parable in the 15th chapter of John’s Gospel.
6 January 2024
Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering (Part 8)
27 December 2023
Let Patience Have Her Perfect Work
Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering (Part 7)
14 October 2023
As the Ministers of God, in Much Patience
Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering (Part 6)
1 September 2023
Bring Forth Fruit With Patience
Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering (Part 5)
12 August 2023
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21 July 2023
Calvinism can only be called “extreme” by those who regard the Bible as extreme.
21 July 2023
Was Christ Ever in “Christmas”?
A proper recovery of New Testament Christianity will remove “Christmas” entirely from the Church.
21 July 2023
The rich young ruler was not seeking salvation—he didn’t think he needed to be saved from his sins. So, Christ directed him back to the law...
21 July 2023
The authentic Christian life is one that is increasingly yielded, not to the service of sin, but to the service of God in righteousness.
21 July 2023
In the parables of the kingdom, Christ’s name for his Church is both a prophecy and a promise: “the kingdom of heaven.”
21 July 2023
A sermon by Samuel Bottomley, at the opening of the chapel in Pickering, Yorkshire, in 1789.
21 July 2023
The “I Will” of Prayer in Overwhelming Trouble
This article is chapter 10 (a sermon) from P.B. Power’s book, “The ‘I WILLS’ of the Psalms,” first published in 1858.
21 July 2023
A Coronation-Sermon Preached at Dartmouth
The text of a sermon from John Flavel (1627–1691), preached to mark the coronation of King William III (i.e. William of Orange) and Queen Mary II in 1689.
21 July 2023
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21 July 2023
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21 July 2023
Thoughts on how the Bible teachings of the Reformation and Puritan Christianity should affect our souls and change our lives.
21 July 2023
Be Patient Unto the Coming of the Lord
Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering (Part 4)
10 May 2023
Through Faith and Patience Inherit the Promises
Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering (Part 3)
1 April 2023
Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering (Part 2)
4 March 2023
Fruit of the Spirit: Longsuffering
Walking worthy of the Lord’s calling, as a true Christian, involves the kind of longsuffering that comes from “all lowliness and meekness.”
26 January 2023
The Peace of God, Which Passeth All Understanding
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Part 8)
29 November 2022
The God of Love and Peace Shall Be With You
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Part 7)
18 October 2022
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Part 6)
8 September 2022
Peace With God Through Our Lord Jesus Christ
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Part 5)
10 August 2022
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Part 4)
25 June 2022
Peace With All That Call on the Lord
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Part 3)
11 June 2022
Fruit of the Spirit: Peace (Part 2)
17 May 2022
Salvation brings peace with God. This salvation has been accomplished by our Saviour, and this is why we have peace with God.
30 April 2022
Fruit of the Spirit: Joy (Part 7)
18 September 2021
Fruit of the Spirit: Joy (Part 6)
11 September 2021
Fruit of the Spirit: Joy (Part 5)
1 September 2021
Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory
Fruit of the Spirit: Joy (Part 4)
20 August 2021
Fruit of the Spirit: Joy (Part 3)
14 August 2021
Fruit of the Spirit: Joy (Part 2)
8 August 2021
The joy of the Christian is that everlasting, appreciative, thankful, glad, and sometimes solemn awareness of having been saved by the Lord Jesus Christ.
29 July 2021
Fruit of the Spirit: Love (Part 2)
7 May 2021
If you examine your own heart and find that you love God—then you have found evidence of God’s grace in your experience. In your heart.
30 April 2021
This is a fruit that non-Christians have no experience of. It comes from the work of the Holy Spirit in the soul.
31 March 2021
If there is a preservation of the saints on earth, then there must be a preservation of the Church on earth.
21 August 2020
The Lord Jesus is not called the “Saviour of the world” and the “Saviour of all men” for nothing. These titles of Christ are prophetic.
18 July 2020
There are those who, for a while, only seem to be grafted into the true vine, but the graft fails to take, as gardeners say.
27 June 2020
The distinguishing mark of grace is the kind of faith in Christ that continues, and grows, and does bear spiritual fruit.
29 May 2020
Take to yourselves what God provides: Truth. Righteousness. The gospel of peace. Faith. Salvation. Prayer for all the saints.
27 March 2020
True Christians are distinguished as those who are brought out of error by exposure to the truth.
9 March 2020
Escaping the Pollutions of the World
Peter had noticed that some people had come to church in order to escape the worst of the corrupt culture around them, and in order to better themselves.
15 February 2020
The Lord delivers his people from error. Whereas fake Christians repeatedly and ultimately fail to repent and reform.
25 January 2020
You must beware of false doctrines and of those that teach them. Do not think that God takes sinful doctrines any less seriously than he does sinful deeds.
27 December 2019
Treading Under Foot the Son of God
We know well that “The Lord shall judge his people,” and that “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
26 December 2019
Whether or not we become aware of the correlation between sin and chastisement, we have sins to repent of.
23 December 2019
Those who bear the distinguishing mark of the true Christian cannot fall away from their Saviour. They have “better things” than those who do.
26 November 2019
True Christians are—or should be—distinguished by their faith, humility, repentance and good works. This must include “works meet for repentance.”
28 September 2019
Paul uses the word “glorified” in its past tense, describing each of these things as having already happened, according to God’s eternal decree.
26 September 2019
The Lord Jesus Christ affirms that he gives to his sheep “eternal life; and they shall never perish.” Nothing could be clearer.
9 September 2019
Make Your Calling and Election Sure
What we must all do, according to the apostle Peter, is make sure that we are true Christians.
6 September 2019
Add to Your Faith: Brotherly Kindness and Charity
Above all, there is the greatest commandment in the law, with which the apostle Peter culminates his seven marks of grace.
5 September 2019
Add to Your Faith: Temperance, Patience, and Godliness
The truly Christian life grows more and more to be a godly, Christ-like life.
4 September 2019
What does this say about your own conversion, if you refuse to study in order to obey the moral law as a Christian?
3 September 2019
The apostle Paul commands us to add virtue to our faith. In other words, moral excellence.
2 September 2019
God does not convert a soul and then leave him or her to grow, or bear fruit, or obey him, in their own strength.
17 August 2019
Our heart’s desire now is to study the Bible God in order to learn how to live the Christian life.
16 August 2019
True Christians have no mere “empty profession.” If we have been born again, there will be accumulating evidence of this fact.
17 July 2019
You are “freed from sin” already, says the apostle. So, it is now possible for you to choose not to sin.
3 July 2019
Paul had come to acknowledge that, even though his old nature still remained within him, his spirit had indeed been regenerated.
2 July 2019
The true Christian brings forth spiritual fruit by the power of God the Holy Spirit.
15 June 2019
The historical event of the Saviour’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection—is the cause of spiritual events in the lives of those who are saved.
11 May 2019
Christians increasingly separate from their old sinful lifestyle and increasingly evidence that they are true Christians.
27 April 2019
Christians, being “Children of the free” (Galatians 4:31), are free to serve God. This service involves keeping God’s moral law, not sinning.
16 March 2019
The “law of Christ” is not a substitute or alternative moral standard that Christians should keep instead of God’s moral law.
15 March 2019
We are sure that the definition of sin did not change for the Christian at conversion.
14 March 2019
Being schooled by the “schoolmaster” brings people to Christ. That is why the church must preach both Law and gospel.
13 March 2019
By the Law Is the Knowledge of Sin
The apostle Paul gives testimony of his own experience of the work of the Holy Spirit in the soul—in applying God’s moral law.
23 February 2019
The Holy Spirit’s ministry to reprove is a ministry that inevitably brings comfort to those whom he reproves.
9 February 2019
To possess the faith of the Christian is to possess the things hoped for, from the hand of God.
8 February 2019
The new birth is a God-wrought transformation that sets people free from enslavement to their spiritually dead, sinful nature and gives them the ability to believe the Word of God, the Bible.
29 January 2019
The precious blood of Christ does not fail to redeem, atone for, purge away the sins of—or, in a word, save—any of those for whom it was poured out.
15 November 2018
Many Are Called, but Few Are Chosen
If you truly believe in Christ, the Saviour of “whosoever believeth in him,” then you are one of the “as many as” who were ordained to eternal life.
13 November 2018
Are we ourselves in the “world” that Christ was sent to save? We know that we are—if we believe in him.
26 October 2018
Redemption Through Christ’s Blood
What Christ accomplished in his redemption is what is bestowed upon those whom he redeemed.
25 October 2018
We Have Now Received the Atonement
What Christ accomplished in his death on the cross is real for all those for whom Christ died.
13 October 2018
He Shall Save His People from Their Sins
Is your faith resting upon the Lord Jesus Christ alone—or is your faith resting upon itself?
12 October 2018
True Christians have a God-given humbleness that prevents them from accepting the idea that their decision to turn to Christ was really their own.
2 October 2018
To Him That Worketh Not, but Believeth
True saving faith in Christ is a simple trusting in (or, as is sometimes helpfully described, resting upon) Christ alone for salvation.
1 October 2018
When Paul taught that a person is “justified by faith,” he did not mean that through believing in Christ they made themselves right in the sight of God.
29 September 2018
We should always praise God alone for sending Christ to die for our sins, for drawing us to him, and for causing us to believe the gospel.
20 September 2018
What God does for those people “whom he did foreknow” is predestinate them before time to be conformed to the image of his Son, justify them at some point in their earthly life time, and glorify them in the future.
13 September 2018
The only faith in Christ that God foresees in any person is the faith which God himself gives.
12 September 2018
After the Counsel of God’s Own Will
The doctrine of unconditional election is the foundation upon which the true, Biblical gospel is built.
21 August 2018
Why do Christians, after they have been spiritually “born again,” suffer afflictions in this life and die the physical death?
20 August 2018
God came and dealt with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, instead of summoning them to stand before him in the “high court” of heaven.
18 August 2018
If you are saved, you will come to understand that you have contributed nothing toward your own salvation.
17 August 2018
Being “dead in sins” really is a kind of death—it is spiritual death, from which only God’s re-creating, regenerating, life-giving power can save us.
14 August 2018
Every fallen human being is in a state of opposition against God, rejecting God’s right to intervene in this world, and many even deny his existence.
8 August 2018
Unconverted human beings reject at the Bible’s teaching that there is no man, woman or child that does anything good.
7 August 2018
The apostle Paul teaches us: “Through the offence of one [i.e. of Adam] many be dead...by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation.”
28 July 2018
The sinful act that catastrophically ruined the human race was this: the first man, the appointed covenant head, deliberately disobeyed God.
21 July 2018