Pulpit Magazine

(By Phil Johnson)
Nehemiah is often regarded as an ideal role model for spiritual leadership—and he certainly is that. He had all the strengths of good leadership: he was decisive, well-organized, a wise overseer of other people, a good administrator, and a skilled project manager who knew how to get things done.
He likewise had all the […]

(By John MacArthur)
I have often spoken out against all the pragmatic and “seeker-sensitive” approaches to contemporary worship because they tend to diminish the proper place of preaching and replace it with quasi-spiritual forms of sheer entertainment (music, comedy, drama, and whatnot). Any trend that threatens the centrality of God’s Word in our corporate worship is […]

(By Nathan Williams)
Having been raised in Central Virginia, only about an hour and a half from Virginia Tech, I’ve been watching the news coverage closely of the tragedy at the campus. Several of my friends went to school there and the influence of the campus is felt throughout Central Virginia. I’ve felt a variety of […]

(By John MacArthur)
Jesus’ exposition of the law is a devastating blow against the lie that image is everything.
Our Lord taught repeatedly that sin bottled up on the inside, concealed from everyone else’s view, carries the very same guilt as sin that manifests itself in the worst forms of ungodly behavior. Those who hate others are as […]

(By John MacArthur)
“All you need is love.”
So said the Beatles. If they’d been singing about God’s love, the statement would have a grain of truth in it.
But what usually goes by the name love in popular culture is not authentic love at all; it’s a deadly fraud.
Far from being “all you need,” it’s something […]