(By John MacArthur)
Note: This week we will take a short break from our series on the charismatic gifts, before returning to that important topic next Monday.
According to a recent poll, the average pastor twenty years ago stayed in his ministry at least seven years before transitioning somewhere else. Today his stay has eroded to barely five years.
Of […]
(By Nathan Williams)
“Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.” (John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation)
It is with these famous words that the Puritan John Owen challenged every Christian to make killing sin a daily priority. My […]
(By John MacArthur)
From the time of the apostles until the present, the true church has always believed that the Bible is complete. God has given his revelation, and now Scripture is finished. God has spoken. What He gave is complete, efficacious, sufficient, inerrant, infallible, and authoritative. Attempts to add to the Bible, and claims of […]
(By John MacArthur)
How the Biblical Canon Was Chosen and Closed
Jude 3 is a crucial passage on the completeness of our Bibles. This statement, penned by Jude before the New Testament was complete, nevertheless looked forward to the completion of the entire canon:
Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common […]
(By John MacArthur)
The following is adapted from Charismatic Chaos (Zondervan, 1992), 60–65.
There is no fresher or more intimate revelation than Scripture. God doesn’t need to give us private revelation to help us in our walk with Him. “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; […]