Church

Children and young people need adults who can model a deep love and joy in God, who can ooze a life full of Jesus, and who can show them what it means to keep in step with the Spirit.

Crowds lined the streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of the olivewood casket as it made its way through the streets of south London. On top was a large pulpit Bible opened at Isaiah 45:22: “Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.” It was Thursday, February 11, 1892, and the body of Charles Haddon Spurgeon was being taken for burial.

Armed with his irresistible kindnesses, the Gentle and Humble One has been leading me toward establishing and growing pastoral relationships with like-hearted men in my area. Why? Because I need it.

The past twelve months, in a lot of ways, have been most discouraging. Perhaps you feel it too. Name-calling. Factions. Slander. The binding of consciences. Grumbling. Disunity. All of this may have you tempted to think that the church is just plain ugly. Providentially, Dustin Benge has penned his new work, The Loveliest Place: The Beauty and Glory of the Church, at this precise moment.

Luther's important 1520 treatise on the Sacraments. 

Martin Luther's important 1520 treatise about authority in the Church. 

Thomas Brooks' 1648 sermon on the last day cheers the spirit and sets our eyes on Christ's coming. 

Glen Scrivener opens Isaiah and shows that mission is at the heart of the life of the Church because it is in the heart of God. 

Mike Reeves shows how the doctrine of the Trinity was the essential soil for the development of the mainstream reformers' doctrine.