Friday, April 17, 2020

Todd Pruitt
Apr 17, 2020
Genesis 3:14-21 The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring...

Words as Signs

Richard C. Barcellos
Apr 16, 2020
What Augustine Can Teach Us About Biblical Interpretation It is no secret that Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine influenced biblical interpretation for centuries to come. He influenced, for example, Thomas Aquinas, a Roman Catholic, and William Whitaker, a Protestant who influenced the formulation...

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Todd Pruitt
Apr 16, 2020
Because of particular circumstances I am not able to write a devotion for today. However, I gladly pass along to you the following wonderful meditation from Matthew Henry. Mark 1:29-39 And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's...

Wednesday, April 9, 2020

Todd Pruitt
Apr 15, 2020
Genesis 12:10-20 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, and when the Egyptians see you, they will say...
...open the doors, and see all the...pews!

But They Had Everything in Common

Mortification of Spin
Apr 15, 2020
After a quick break, the crew just had to return to the pandemic topic, as they remain in bunker lockdown. Stay-at-home orders and global shutdowns have had a huge impact on how we do almost everything—including, how we “do church.” What do church membership and commitment to the local body look...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Todd Pruitt
Apr 14, 2020
Philippians 1:3-7 “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at...

Caring for a Father with Dementia

Dave Jenkins
Apr 14, 2020
It was a pleasant summer evening in Caldwell, Idaho, and my wife and I were sitting in our home watching some TV. The year was 2012. Suddenly my cell phone rang: It was my older brother, calling me to let me know that my dad—who had moved from the Seattle area to Eastern Washington six and a half...

Monday, April 13, 2020

Todd Pruitt
Apr 13, 2020
1 Peter 4:1-6 “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past...

John's Use of the Song in his Resurrection Narrative

Apr 12, 2020
Don’t you love it when you hear a sermon, a very good sermon, and it overflows with fruitfulness as you find all kinds of intertextual references connecting to your own private Scripture reading? That happened to me today, as my pastor preached on John 20 and the resurrection of Christ. I saw the...

Surely He Has Borne Our Griefs

Sinclair Ferguson
Apr 10, 2020
Editor's Note: The following has been adapted from a chapter in Atonement , edited by Gabriel Fluhrer (P&R, 2010). Find the rest of this chapter and more at ReformedResources.org . Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and...