David Mathis | When you think of the church, do you fixate on present blemishes or remember the heart, and promises, of Christ? He knows her spots, and he keeps working to make her breathtaking.由David Mathis

John Piper | By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.由John Piper

Luther stood not on the pronouncements of popes, or the decisions of councils, or the winds of popular opinion, but on “that word above all earthly powers.”由John Piper

October 27, 2024 Let Your Kingdom Come Acts 1:6-14 Jacob Smith preaching, Acts Series: The Acts of the Risen King Jesus Click here to listen由Taylor Allen

By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.由John Piper

By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.由John Piper

Jon Bloom | The longings of the saints do not lessen with age — they get stronger. As the world wears thin and years grow long, wise souls want more of God.由Jon Bloom

Greg Morse | We marvel at many things — athletes, artists, nature. But what made Jesus marvel?由Greg Morse

Marshall Segal | The banner flying over corporate worship is not “come and give” but “come and get.” Our first business each Sunday is to seek a happy soul in God.由Marshall Segal

David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.由David Mathis

David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.由David Mathis

Katharina married Martin Luther to survive as a runaway nun, but their marriage proved to be a model in a time when “pastor’s wife” was a new role.由Kristin Tabb

The Reformation required more than theological giants. It also demanded organizational geniuses.由Betsy Howard

He took the lead role in writing the Heidelberg Catechism, one of the most ringing affirmations of faith in all of Christian history.由Thomas S. Kidd

Scott Hubbard | What if the worst happens? In Romans 8, the apostle Paul takes us to our darkest fears and inscribes above them all, “More than conquerors through him who loved us.”由Scott Hubbard

Theodore Beza gave form to what we now call Calvinism by explaining and defending the biblical doctrines Calvin had rediscovered.由Shawn Wright

Lady Jane Grey was a teenage victim of social and political conspiracy, beheaded at seventeen for her faith. But her life is far from a tragedy.由Scott Hubbard

German Reformer Balthasar Hübmaier had a powerful voice, a mightier pen, and a life that echoed his Reformed and Baptistic beliefs, even under torture.由Obbie Tyler Todd

Greg Morse | No matter how long you have lived in despair, nor how dark your heart has become, the dungeon that holds you has an escape.由Greg Morse

Robert Estienne was the premier printer of the Protestant cause. He put Reformation doctrine and the Bible itself into the hands of ordinary people.由Matt Crutchmer

David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.由David Mathis

David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.由David Mathis

The key to John Calvin’s life: he recovered and embodied a passion for the absolute reality and majesty of God.由John Piper

David Mathis | When your eyes first open, what’s your first priority? Your burning need each day is to get your soul happy in God.由David Mathis

John Knox feared the face of no man, which equipped him to bring reform to his homeland in the Highlands.由Sinclair Ferguson

Conrad Grebel is known as a “radical Reformer” — a leader who took the movement one step further by insisting on separating church from state.由Abigail Dodds

October 20, 2024 Come, Holy Spirit Acts 1:4-5 Jacob Smith preaching, Acts Series: The Acts of the Risen King Jesus Click here to listen由Taylor Allen

Greg Morse | Our lives often take strange turns. How good to know, then, that God can turn all the unplanned oddities of your life for your good and his glory.由Greg Morse

Without Zwingli, there would have been no Reformation in Zurich. Without Heinrich Bullinger, it would not have lasted.由David Mathis

Hellen Stirke did not debate theology, write a treatise, or preach to hundreds. She just staked her soul on Scripture — and paid for it with her life.由Tony Reinke

Jon Bloom | Christians can only be so happy in this world. Even our best seasons are accompanied by groanings for a home beyond this world.由Jon Bloom

He never preached a sermon and never authored a theological treatise. He was a Reformer by accident — or, better, by common grace.由Rick Segal

If the Reformation could be summarized in three men, then alongside Martin Luther and John Calvin would be the Swiss giant, Huldrych Zwingli.由Michael A.G. Haykin

Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.由John Piper

John Piper | Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.由John Piper

Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.由John Piper

One Lord, one faith, one stake. The story of two great Reformers burned at the same stake.由Scott Hubbard

Though once utterly enchanted with Catholic piety, William Farel would be used by God to liberate countless thousands from the bondage of Roman superstition.由Ryan Griffith

Thomas Cranmer led England from Roman Catholicism and shaped England’s theology perhaps more than any other Reformer.由Matthew Westerholm

October 13, 2024 The Word of Life, the Word of Judgement Jeremiah 1-4 Coty Pinckney preaching, Jeremiah Series: The Word of Life, the Word of Judgment Click here to listen由Taylor Allen

To some a queen, to others a heretic, Marguerite de Navarre used her royal power to win others to Reformed faith — and then protect them under persecution.由Tanner Swanson

What Marie Dentière lacked in feminine modesty or humility for her day, she made up for with unrivaled zeal for the gospel.由Adrien Segal