Category: Ligonier Ministries

You probably look forward to the summer, as I do. My children are out of school and hectic life rhythms shift, allowing a little more time with family and friends,…

“It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.” So wrote the great…

Pierre Courthial (pronounced CORE-tee-all) was a stalwart Reformed theologian and pastor in France in the twentieth century. He was born in 1914 in Saint Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or, on the north side of…

Trusting in one’s self-righteousness is a constant temptation. The gospel is really humbling. It’s saying that we are justified, we are reckoned righteous in God’s sight without any contribution of…

What is deism? Deism is a religious philosophy that flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but its effects linger into our present age. Deism teaches that all people can…

There are quite a lot of them. I think the predominant ones are in Romans 5 and Romans 8:32. In Romans 5:8, Paul says, “God has demonstrated His love toward…

One of the most difficult passages in all the New Testament, a passage that certainly qualifies for the category of hard sayings, is where Jesus speaks about an unforgivable sin,…

It’s an unhappy reality: we are all fools sometimes. Case in point: When was the last time you fell for a scam? Bought a “bargain” that turned out to be…

One spring, I transplanted a hydrangea. It was a last-minute decision, and the attempt involved my digging a hole in one dirt patch, then extracting the plant from another dirt…

This is an interesting and important question. My Lutheran friends will not agree with me, but I think we can distinguish Luther’s view of baptism from a later Lutheran view…