Augustine: Fourth Sunday in Advent
It is not at all strange that human consideration and human speech are inadequate when we undertake to praise the
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John Gill on the Birth of Christ
From John Gill’s Exposition of the Whole Bible The Gospel of Luke, Chapter 2 Verse 1 And it came to
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John Owen: ‘The Person of Christ the Great Repository of Sacred Truth’
Divine supernatural truth is called by the apostle, The truth which is after godliness: Tit. i. 1. Whereas, therefore, the
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Luther on Advent: ‘Christ is a Refuge For All the Distressed and Troubled in Conscience.’
Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent Text: Matthew 11:2-10 (KJV) Christ’s Answer to the Question John Asked Him; His Praise
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Augustine: Third Sunday in Advent
Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ
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Richard Baxter on Avoiding Dissension in the Home
It is a great duty of husbands and wives to live in quietness and peace, and avoid all occasions of
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Augustine: Second Sunday in Advent
In the bosom of His Father, He existed before all the cycles of ages; born of an earthly Mother, He
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John Bunyan: Unconditional Pardon
There was a certain man that had committed treason against his king; but for as much as the king had
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Martin Luther Advent Sermon: ‘Wish Happiness and Prosperity to Holy Christendom’
A Sermon by Martin Luther; taken from his Church Postil of 1521. Text: Matthew 21:1-9 (KJV) 1. In the preface I
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Richard Baxter: The Evil of Backbiting and Evil-Speaking
1. It is forbidden of God among the heinous, damning sins, and made the character of a notorious wicked person,
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Augustine: Sermon for Advent
When the Word assumed flesh in time, so that He might enter into our temporal life, He did not, in
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Martin Luther On Confession: Tell Your Brother His Fault “Between You and Him Alone”
Now we have heard all the things which ought to be considered here, except confession. Of this we shall speak
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Handel: Messiah
Editorial Note: Advent begins today. So too will begin many performances of Handel’s Messiah, one of the most famous and
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The Mayflower Compact and the First Plymouth Thanksgiving
The Mayflower Compact In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread
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R. C. Sproul: A Letter to the Church
The mission of the church is eternal. Its origin is in eternity and its destination is eternity. God’s plan of
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