The Christian life Archive

Ecclesiastes 5:10-6:9

November 5, 2009

Wisdom beckons us to control our insatiable desires and greed and to be content with what we have been given.

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Bioethics and the Christian Life

October 19, 2009

David VanDrunen discusses his book Bioethics and the Christian Life: A Guide to Making Difficult Decisions.

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1 Corinthians 9:19-27

March 26, 2009

We are to follow Paul's example of being willing to forego our Christian liberty in order to gain followers of Jesus.

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1 Corinthians 6:12-20

February 25, 2009

The Apostle Paul confronts the sexual sins of the Corinthians with the gospel – their identity as Christians.

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1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1

February 12, 2009

In regards to meat sacrificed to idols, Paul is preeminently concerned with the motive of the heart.

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1 Corinthians 1:18-2:7

September 18, 2008

The paradox of God's “wise foolishness” and “strong weakness” calls us to look deeply at our heart motivations in light of the gospel.

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A Tale of Two Kingdoms

September 1, 2008

As citizens of both kingdoms, we carry out our vocations in the church and the world in distinct ways through distinct means. 

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Why Read Fiction?

September 1, 2008

Novel-reading should be enjoyable, but also make us better readers of the Bible and more empathetic human beings.

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Inaugural Address: Two Kingdoms and the Ordo Salutis

February 19, 2008

The doctrines of the Two Kingdoms and the Ordo Salutis with the doctrinal and ethical distinctions they entail are still critically important for a biblically sound account of the nature of the Christian life and its relation to the Reformed system of doctrine.

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Doesn’t God Want Us to be Happy?

October 1, 2007

God is not abstractly interested in ensuring that we are either successful or unsuccessful; he has far larger plans for us.

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The Law and the Sabbath

January 13, 2007

A study of the nature of the Sabbath as both a creational institution and a re-creational institution built into both creation and redemption.

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Bioethics: New Questions to New Technologies

October 1, 2006

How cultural developments pose ever-new moral challenges.

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The Word Beyond the Sermon: Family Worship

January 15, 2006

There is nothing that can help your family and its’ spiritual health more than attending the means of grace every Lord’s Day.

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