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Dec 1, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Burk Parsons
Christian couples don’t ever fall out of love, they fall out of being repentant. The gospel hope for our broken homes is our broken and contrite hearts that turn daily to Jesus Christ and His brokenness for us on the cross as our Savior and Lord. Every home is dysfunctional because everyone is sinful. There is no perfect family this side of heaven, and if we were perfect parents, neither we nor our children would need a Savior.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Burk Parsons
The Word, prayer, and the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper are the ordinary means of grace God has given us. These are the means through which the Holy Spirit works to bring true conversion, true revival, and true reformation. God’s awakening power is not activated by our schemes and tactics, but by His Spirit and His ordinary means of awakening. Awakening is at the very heart of the Christian faith, and it is the reason we are Christians.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Burk Parsons
We must pray, confess, confront, admit, intervene, befriend, and love. As the family of God, we must not give up on those who struggle with addictions as we depend on the transforming and renewing work of the Holy Spirit through the gospel of Jesus Christ, who has overcome the world. As a pastor, I often find myself counseling people with addictions.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Burk Parsons
We interpret and apply Scripture based on the words of the text as well as on the inescapable principles and necessary applications of the text. This is one of the most important hermeneutical principles for Christian life and doctrine, and it is precisely how we see Jesus Christ and the biblical authors approaching Scripture. One of the most important yet often most neglected fields of study in the church is hermeneutics, or the study of the interpretation of literary texts.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
evangelical-times.org | Burk Parsons
This article was first published in Tabletalk, the Bible study magazine of Ligonier Ministries. Find out more at TabletalkMagazine.co.uk or try it free for three months today at TryTabletalk.co.uk. When God created us in his image, he gave us the ability to feel and to think. Our capacity to have feelings, desires, and emotions is from God, so our feelings, desires, and emotions are not irrelevant to our humanity.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Burk Parsons
Rome was not built in a day, and neither was the confessional, Reformed, Protestant church. The faithful men and women of the seventeenth century continued the work of the sixteenth-century Reformers by bringing every doctrine, every practice, and every thought captive to the Word of God. In our day, many Christians have a view of church history that is a popular, but unfortunate, caricature. They believe the church started in the first century, but then soon fell into apostasy.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Burk Parsons
Satan identifies us by our sin, and we often join him in doing so, but God identifies us in Christ. God identifies us as holy and calls us to be holy because He has declared us holy on account of the holiness of Christ. As Paul writes, God “chose us in [Christ] before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him” (Eph. 1:4). Thinking about God leads us to quickly affirm God’s holy and righteous character.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Burk Parsons
We are too easily tempted to forget God and to avoid conflict with the world. It sometimes seems easier to live as if God really isn’t there, to go about our days without reflecting on His authority and that we’re called to live all of life coram Deo, before His face. But if we forget Him, we’ll forget who we are. We are His people, and we are called to stand firm against the creeping darkness of secularism.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Burk Parsons
Much of society is being overtaken by a youth-driven culture because we have neglected God’s call to train up the next generation of young people in the way they should go. If we are to redirect the current paths of young people, we must begin in the church by taking up the charge to come alongside younger men and women, and teach them the old, ancient values of God’s Word. My dad was fifty-two years old when I was born.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
tabletalkmagazine.com | Steve Nichols |Burk Parsons |Bruce P. Baugus
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