First and 2 Thessalonians are two of the least-known letters of the Apostle Paul. It is quite possible that 1 Thessalonians was his first letter, written after his labors in Thessalonica…
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Who Is Satan?
In Scripture, the term Satan means “adversary.” We know him as the devil. He is a high angelic creature who, before the creation of the human race, rebelled against God…
How Is the Sabbath a Sign of the Covenant?
It has become increasingly common for business professionals, life coaches, and pastors to talk about embracing sabbath or taking a sabbatical. The idea is that people need prolonged seasons of…
What Is Reformation Day All About?
On October 31, much of the culture will be focused on candy and things that go bump in the night. Protestants, however, have something far more significant to celebrate on…
What advice would you give to a newly married couple?
The first thing I would say is that you’ve begun a lifelong experience of getting to know each other. My wife and I have been married fifty years, and she…
What Was the Reformation All About?
What Was the Reformation All About? with R.C. Sproul The Protestant Reformation is a story of transformation—a transformation from hate to love, from slavery to freedom, and from blind faith…
The Dawn of Reformation
It is one thing to believe that the Bible is the Word of God, but it is another to believe, or trust, the Bible as the Word of God. We’re…
How the Reformation Spread
The rapid spread of the Protestant Reformation from Wittenberg, Germany, throughout Europe and across the Channel to England was not spawned by the efforts of a globe-trotting theological entrepreneur. On…
Is God in Control of Everything?
One sixteenth-century confession claims that “nothing happens in this world without [God’s] orderly arrangement.”1 Actually, every Reformed confession says this or something similar. “God’s sovereignty”—His freedom from external control—“is the…
How To Read Apocalyptic Literature
Apocalyptic literature sets forth images and teachings related to the end times, often in highly symbolic form. A standard definition, developed by the genre project of the Society of Biblical…