The Wine Jesus Drank

  Original article by David Mathis at Desiring God Ministries    Twice Jesus was offered wine while on the cross. He refused the first, but took the second. Why so? The first time came in verse 23, “they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.” William Lane explains, According to [...]

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Foreword to Pierced for our Transgressions

   By John Piper. © Desiring God. Website: desiringGod.org (From: Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution) Out of the Jewish leadership of Jesus’ day had risen teachers of the law who did not know what the law meant. Jesus found himself saying things like ‘Are you the teacher of Israel and [...]

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The Thief on the Cross

by Pastor John Samson   One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving [...]

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Does God Hate Haiti?

By Dr. Albert Mohler The images streaming in from Haiti look like scenes from Dante’s Inferno. The scale of the calamity is unprecedented. In many ways, Haiti has almost ceased to exist. The earthquake that will forever change that nation came as subterranean plates shifted about six miles under the surface of the earth, along [...]

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How Can Our Good Works Please God…God’s Work or Ours?

Foreword – This article was originally posted in Modern Reformation’s issue entitled The Pilgrims’s Progress – The Life of A Justified Sinner – Nov./Dec. Vol. 5 No. 6 1996. This issue is now out of print and one of the best volumes that rolled out of the press. It can be accessed electronically at Modern Reformation’s website [...]

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Rock of Ages by Augustus Toplady

In a recent radio program by Chris Rosebrough at Pirate Christian Radio, he referred to an email from a pastor (at 7 minutes from the start of the broadcast) who brings encouragement that a group of contemporary Christians are defying the current spirit of romanticism/semi-erotic mysticism in many of the so-called Christian songs that have [...]

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Constant Companion

And behold, I am always with you, to the end of the age – Matthew 28:20 After the Lord declared His authority and commissioned the disciples to spread the good news, teaching those who will believe the Gospel everything that Jesus said and did, it was about the time that He will ascend to His [...]

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