Pulpit Magazine

(By John MacArthur)
By God’s grace, I have been the pastor of the same church now for nearly forty years. From that vantage point, I have witnessed the birth and growth of menacing trends within the church, several of which have converged under what I would call evangelical pragmatism — an approach to ministry that is [...]

(By John MacArthur)
Did Jesus really claim to be God incarnate in human flesh? Or, as skeptics argue, did His followers later invent those claims and attribute them to Him? Thankfully, the biblical account of His life and ministry leaves no doubt about who Jesus declared Himself to be.
Jesus frequently spoke of His unique, otherworldly origin, [...]

(Review by Nathan Williams)
“So it may be argued . . . that America has its own quest for Jesus, its own reshaping of the Son of God, fashioning Him into something more palatable to American tastes and acceptable to American sensibilities.” (p. 10)
The above quote accurately captures the main idea proposed by Stephen Nichols in his [...]

(By John MacArthur)
This week, we’ve looked at the characteristics of a true work of the Holy Spirit, noting that it exalts the true Christ, opposes Satan’s interests, points people to the Scriptures, and elevates truth. Today, we will conclude this series by looking at a final mark of the Spirit’s work.
This material, again, is adapted [...]

(By John MacArthur)
In this series, we’ve seen that a true work of the Holy Spirit exalts the true Christ, opposes Satan’s interests, and points people to the Scriptures. Today, we will continue by looking at another mark of the Spirit’s work. The following material is adapted from Jonathan Edwards’s The Distinguishing Marks of a [...]