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No Lasting City

In the midst of life’s complexities, we’re on a journey of faith, seeking true purpose and allegiance to Christ. As we navigate through fleeting moments, we ponder our priorities and willingness to embrace discomfort for the sake of spiritual growth. Let’s align our hearts with the path that leads to Him, the coming King.

When Lamps Burn Low in the Church

Whenever lamps burn low in the Church, and love waxes cold, and watchers slumber while the Bridegroom tarries, the Restorer and Sustainer of His people is always standing at the door. He can create fresh witnesses to Himself in the most unlikely quarters, even as He raised up Paul from among the Pharisees, and Luther from among the Mendicants. The Gospel of the grace of God has been disproved a great number of times
– it has been assailed and wounded and beaten down and left for dead – but it survives by the power of an endless life. Amid fightings within and fears without the modern Church can still say, I know that my Redeemer liveth. Who can guess what swift, incalculable revival Christ has in store for His desponding people?’

— JOHN HUTTON (1926)

John Piper Preaches Against “FAKE” churches & “SHAM” christians

Greetings All, Defection and persecution? Speaking from Jesus’ words in John 15, John Piper brings a reassuring teaching regarding the current “sham” that is Christian discipleship across the smorgasbord of denominationalism, including the “United Reformed Church” in Edinburgh whose liberal theology and extra-biblical teaching is abhorrent and worthy of daily rebuke: https://www.augustine.org.uk My forthcoming secondContinue reading “John Piper Preaches Against “FAKE” churches & “SHAM” christians”

Into the Barn to Burn (sermon)

Plato’s problem is that there isn’t enough stimuli in the world around us to reinforce the knowledge-based convictions we have in our heads; we don’t experience what we know. But Heraclitus would have said 100 years before that it doesn’t matter because everything is changing constantly anyway – you can’t step into the same riverContinue reading “Into the Barn to Burn (sermon)”