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Download R.C. Sproul’s “5 Things Every Christian Needs to Grow” for FREE from Reformation Trust and Ligonier Ministries

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Vern Poythress on understanding the book of Revelation

Joe Carter on how to tell the difference between the PCA and the PCUSA

Leland Ryken explains how stories work

“Discernment is not a matter of simply telling the difference between right and wrong; rather, it is telling the difference between right and almost right.” (Charles Spurgeon)

“Only a spiritually minded-church provides the soil in which a literature of the Spirit can grow.” (B.B. Warfield)

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Get Fred Zaspel’s “Warfield on the Christian Life: Living in Light of the Gospel” for 50% OFF at Westminster Bookstore

Get Geerhardus Vos’ “Redemptive History and Biblical Theology: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos” and “Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments” for 43% OFF at Westminster Bookstore

Get William Edgar’s “A Transforming Vision: The Lord’s Prayer as a Lens for Life” for up to 67% OFF at Westminster Bookstore

Download R.C. Sproul’s “5 Things Every Christian Needs to Grow” for FREE from Reformation Trust and Ligonier Ministries

Enter to win The Complete Sermon Collection of Charles Spurgeon (63-Volumes) for Logos Bible Software from Adrian Warnock

Enter to win an iPad Mini and a couple of books from 20 Schemes

Enter to win a Cloth Over Board ESV Reader’s Bible from Crossway

Check out Ligonier Ministries’ $5 Friday featuring Reformation Trust Publishing’s “Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching”

Enter to win a stack of books from CBD Reformed and Tim Challies

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Get Jeremy Walker’s “Life in Christ: Becoming and Being a Disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ” for only 99¢ for Amazon Kindle

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Get Walter Brueggemann’s “Spirituality of the Psalms” for FREE for Logos Bible Software and enter to win the 24-volume collection

Enter to win a subscription to Leadership Journal from The Brave Reviews

How homeschooling and classical Christian schooling could alter the leadership of the future

Peter Lillback on the Church as true Israel and the truth about the Rapture

Jeremy Walker with some wise counsel on home or hospital visitations

Andy Naselli shares some excerpts from David Helm’s “Expositional Preaching”

“If you are drawn into a controversy, use very hard arguments and very soft words.” (Charles Spurgeon)

“Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.” (Geerhardus Vos)

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Get R.C. Sproul’s “1–2 Peter: Be All the More Diligent to Make Your Calling and Election Sure” (St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary) for 60% OFF at Westminster Bookstore

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Ligonier Connect is offering FREE web courses on Worldview, Apologetics, and Philosophy

Enter to win Michael Haykin’s “Patrick of Ireland” and Marvin Jones’ “Basil of Caesarea” from Christian Focus Publications

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Get Walter Brueggemann’s “Spirituality of the Psalms” for FREE for Logos Bible Software and enter to win the 24-volume collection

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Heath Lambert on the situations, seasons, and accountability in balancing family and ministry

William Boekestein on the means of grace and spiritual growth

Paul Tripp on walking with gentleness and tenderly restoring others

Evangelicals increasingly unwelcome on American university campuses

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“Why should my heart be fixed where my home is not?” (Richard Baxter)

“Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.” (Francis Schaeffer)

Thank you for visiting ACTIVE/didactic. Please take some time to browse the rest of the site (pages are located in the tabs above). Start with the Pastoral Theology page or Systematic Theology page first. Soli Deo Gloria!

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Get R.C. Sproul’s “Acts: You Will Be My Witnesses to the End of the Earth” (St. Andrews Expositional Commentary) for 50% OFF from Westminster Bookstore

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Problems within the Reformed Church in America cause many to leave the denomination

A superb article by Nick Batzig on the dangers of theological controversy

Various Southern Baptists share their eschatological and millennial views

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Rebecca Vandoodewaard shares some wise biblical counsel for raising daughters

“We must think right thoughts of God if we would worship him as he desires to be worshiped, if we would live the life he wishes us to live, and enjoy the peace which he has provided for us.” (B.B. Warfield)

“When men talk of a little hell it’s because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.” (Charles Spurgeon)

Please take some time to browse the rest of this site (you’ll find a number of pages in the tabs above). There are a large number of articles, FREE e-books, and book recommendations for your enjoyment. Check out the Pastoral Theology page or Apologetics page first. Soli Deo Gloria!

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Get Donald MacLeod’s “The Person of Christ” (Contours of Christian Theology) for 60% OFF at Westminster Bookstore

Last chance to enter to win books by Brian Croft, Joel Beeke, Mez McConnell, and Matthias Media at 20 Schemes

Enter to win a genuine leather ESV Study Bible from Crossway and 20 Schemes

Get Kevin Vanhoozer’s “Theological Interpretation of the New Testament” for FREE from Logos Bible Software

William T. Dennison’s biblical-theological catechism of eschatology in Genesis

David Murray on the dangers of too little sleep and 50 good reasons to sleep longer

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5 books every new Christian should read

Mark Jones on the nature and scope of the atonement amongst Calvinists and Arminians

The Covenant of Works in the 1677 London Baptist Confession of Faith

7 questions for discouraged Pastors to ask themselves

Former Christian publishing insider shares the realities of fluff, platforms, ghostwriting, and back-cover blurbs

Seminary student and mother of three drops some Baptist history knowledge in this Fresh Prince of Bel-Air parody

“Hope is a supernatural grace of God, whereby the believer, through Christ, expects and waits for all those good things of the promise, which at present he hath not received, or not fully.” (William Gurnall)

“We don’t drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort we don’t gravitate toward godliness but godlessness.” (D.A. Carson)

Please take some time and browse the rest of the pages on this site (located in the tabs at the top). You’ll find a variety of articles, FREE e-books, and book recommendations for your encouragement and equipping. Check out the Exegetical Theology page or the Historical Theology page first. Enjoy!

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Up to 45% OFF on Kevin DeYoung’s “Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will” at Westminster Bookstore (ends 05/20)

Get R.C. Sproul’s “The Work of Christ” for FREE on Amazon Kindle

Last chance to win a stack of Danny Akin’s books from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and 20 Schemes

Go to 20 Schemes and enter to win books from Brian Croft, Joel Beeke, Mez McConnell and Matthias Media

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Watch R.C. Sproul’s “The Last Days According to Jesus” for FREE at Ligonier

Check out the archives of The Gospel Magazine (1766–Present) for FREE

An excellent article by Anthony Bradley on the history of outsourcing and technological advances

27-year old pregnant Sudanese doctor faces execution for marrying a Christian man

A discussion about the Church, blindness, and disability on The Mortification of Spin podcast

The lazy moralism (and intolerance) of liberal college politics

David Powlison on the tendency of our hearts to grow dull to Scripture

Albert Mohler on contemporary Chrstianity’s impatience for the Word of God

“There is one lawgiver… We dare not attempt to be holier than God’s law, and we dare not impose upon the Christian’s conscience what does not have the authority of divine institution.” (John Murray)

“Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.” (Charles Spurgeon)

Please take some time to browse the other pages on the site (located above in the tabs or listed to the right). You’ll find several articles, FREE e-books and book recommendations. Check out the Apologetics page or the Exegetical Theology page first. Thanks!