Who Are the Poor in Spirit?

Who Are the Poor in Spirit?

Who Are the Poor in Spirit? From TABLETALK by Thomas Brewer I want a great life. Don’t we all? You might say that it depends on what I mean by great. The world defines a great life as a comfortable, easy sort of life with no trouble whatsoever. Health, wealth, a...
Secret Things

Secret Things

Secret Things From TABLETALK by Jonathan L. Master Perhaps someone has asked you the question, “What is your favorite Bible verse?” This is impossible to answer satisfactorily, but when we read older Christian writers, we can begin to see which Bible verses—which...
Cultivating Gratefulness

Cultivating Gratefulness

Cultivating Gratefulness From TABLETALK by William Barcley The Puritan writer Thomas Watson, in his work The Godly Man’s Picture, writes: “A godly man is a thankful man. Praise and thanksgiving is the work of heaven, and he begins that work here which he shall be...
God Sings

God Sings

God Sings From TABLETALK by R. Carlton Wynne   The Bible is replete with singing. It is hard to read the Bible without encountering it. Job teaches that as God laid the foundations of the earth, the angels “sang together” and “shouted for joy” (Job 38:7). When Adam...
Paul and Barnabas Argue over John Mark

Paul and Barnabas Argue over John Mark

Paul and Barnabas Argue over John Mark From TABLETALK Acts 15:36–41 “There arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the...
Full and Final Holiness

Full and Final Holiness

Full and Final Holiness by Sinclair Ferguson From TABLETALK Holiness begins and ends with a crisis. In regeneration, we were definitively sanctified (past tense). Our whole Christian life involves progress in sanctification. But that process will be brought to...