Bible study

Articles on the Faith

Every article stands on the Scriptures alone, and may be read on its own.

The Foundation

The Human Condition

The Saviour

How a Man Is Saved

The Christian Life

The Christian Life

Prayer: Talking to the Father

To whom we pray, in whose name, and by whose power — and why so many prayers go unanswered.

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The Christian Life

Reading the Bible for Yourself

How to open the Book and understand it, without a priest, a scholar, or a middleman.

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The Christian Life

Baptism and the Lord's Supper

What they mean, what they do not do, and why both matter to the believer.

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The Christian Life

Love: The Mark of a True Disciple

The one sign the Lord Jesus Christ gave by which all men would know His own.

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The Christian Life

A Just Weight and Balance: The Sin of Two Measures

Why God calls divers weights an abomination — one standard for ourselves and another for everyone else.

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The Christian Life

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness

Why God set so severe a penalty on the false witness — what the sin covers, and the mercy available to those who have borne it.

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The Christian Life

Let Not Mercy and Truth Forsake Thee

Why Scripture never separates the two — what each becomes without the other, and how to test any action taken concerning another person.

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The Christian Life

Pride Goeth Before Destruction

The sin that cannot see itself — where it began, why God actively opposes it, and the road back for anyone who has fallen into it.

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The Christian Life

When You Know You Have Grieved the Heart of God

What to do the moment you realise you have wounded God — the broken spirit He will not despise, and the repentance that reaches the person you harmed.

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The Christian Life

The Book Beneath Your Shoe

A Bible resting on the sole of a shoe, in church, during the preaching — and nobody noticed. The father with his dead son's blood-stained letter, the framed doctorate, the flowers on the table — and what our hands say about what we believe the Book is.

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The Ministry

Blameless: What God Requires of Pastors, Elders and Deacons

God wrote the qualifications down twice, and almost nobody uses them. Of sixteen requirements, exactly one is a skill — the rest are character. On filthy lucre, pride, the home, and the wives.

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The Christian Life

Filthy Lucre: The Sin That Never Calls Itself by Its Name

Nobody confesses the love of money, because nobody recognises it — it arrives dressed as prudence. Achan, Gehazi, Judas, Demas, and the one man God called a fool.

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For the Searching Heart