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Dec 16, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Matt Smethurst |Ligon Duncan |Sinclair Ferguson
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Sinclair FergusonAnd there are moments in the gospels when, when this comes out, when he says, you know, how long do I have to bear with this? You’re not speaking of condemnation of us, but of longing for the pure air of glory that He knew as one of the Christmas hymns says he came from the glory down to such a world as this.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
banneroftruth.org | Sinclair Ferguson
Book Description The world is a sea of glass: a pageant of fond delight, a theatre of vanity, a labyrinth of error, a gulf of grief, a sty of filthiness, a vale of misery, a spectacle of woe, a river of tears, a stage of deceit, a cage full of devils, a den of scorpions, a wilderness of wolves, a cabin of bears, a whirlwind of passions, a fained comedy, a delectable frenzy; where is false delight, assured grief; certain sorrow, uncertain pleasure; lasting woe, fickle wealth; long heaviness,...
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
banneroftruth.org | Sinclair Ferguson
The True Meaning of Christmas Binding Clear Weight .6 lbs Dimensions 7.5 × 5 × .75 in ISBN 9781848716551 Binding Cloth-bound, eBook (ePub & Kindle), Cloth-bound & eBook (ePub & Kindle) Topic Christmas, Jesus Christ, Christian Living Banner Pub Date Nov 17, 2015 Page Count 216 Format Book Endorsements ‘The best story ever told in the best possible way. Cumulatively, these chapters provide rich, rewarding and revitalizing expositions that form a perfect addition to a truly Christian,...
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
missionary.com | Sinclair Ferguson
"This subject of suffering and missions comes in some ways as a dagger to the contemporary heart. We are so interested in being leaders, but less interested in being servants."Watch Sinclair Ferguson's closing talk on "Missions and Suffering" from day 2 of The Missionary Conference 2024.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Sinclair Ferguson
We need to return to a true preaching to the heart, rooted in the principle of grace and focused on the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.…And when you have experienced such preaching, or seen its fruit, you will know what true preaching is. No more poignant or instructive description of the work of the minister of the gospel exists than Paul’s “defensive excursus” in 2 Corinthians 2:14–7:4.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Sinclair Ferguson
From dust we came, and to dust we will return (unless our Lord returns first). But this dust will be resurrected, reconstituted when Christ comes again in glory. On that day of reunion—of body and soul, earth and heaven, men and angels—when all things are at last visibly made subject to the second man, Jesus Christ, then believers will live forever in fully and finally sanctified bodies. Holiness begins and ends with a crisis. In regeneration, we were definitively sanctified (past tense).
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Sinclair Ferguson
We are sinners, deserving God’s judgment; yet we are loved and redeemed by the grace of God—and accepted by Him in Christ (Eph. 1:3–14; 2:1–10). We are children of God and therefore are welcomed and cared for by our heavenly Father (Matt. 6:26, 31; Rom. 8:14–17, 29; Gal. 3:26; 4:4–7; 1 John 3:1–3). We are servants of Christ, having been bought with a price—we are no longer our own but are under His lordship and enjoy His protection (Rom. 14:7–9; 1 Cor. 6:19–20).
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May 16, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Sinclair Ferguson
The Scriptures use a series of descriptions to identify the Spirit. He is the Spirit of glory, truth, holiness, sonship—and much more (Rom. 1:4; Rom. 8:15; 1 Peter 4:14; 1 John 4:6). We should notice particularly how our Lord Jesus introduces the Spirit in Jesus’ Farewell Discourse in John 13–17. In essence, Jesus tells His disciples that the Spirit will be to them everything that He Himself has been during the course of His ministry.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Sinclair Ferguson
Moses ascended the earthly mountain of God and came down with the law written on tablets of stone. But later, he expressed a longing that all the Lord’s people might have the Spirit (Num. 11:29). The law of Moses could command but it could not empower. By contrast, Jesus ascended the heavenly mountain of God and came down in the Spirit to write His law on our hearts. At a PGA Tour tournament in October 2015, Ben Crane disqualified himself after completing his second round.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Sinclair Ferguson
Living according to conscience, then, is not a matter of “being faithful to my best self” or “following conscience per se.” It is a matter of conscience’s being informed, shaped, and trained by God’s Word and becoming increasingly sensitive to its assessments. To say that “God alone is Lord of the conscience” is to affirm that God’s Word is paramount in shaping this dimension of our self-consciousness.
