Time is a divine gift and stewardship—a brief and sacred trust given to men for eternal ends.

John Newton (1725–1807), once a slave trader and later the beloved pastor of Olney and London, became one of the most influential evangelical voices of the eighteenth century.

As I’ve studied Robert Murray M’Cheyne over the last few years, one of the more noticeable lessons his life teaches is the full-orbed nature of pastoral piety.

The final sola is the great underlying reason behind the importance of the first four. The Reformers knew the Biblical truth that: “from him and through him and to him are all things.

A striking feature of both accounts is how revival brought reverence to the respective congregations. Instances of extreme ecstasy happened, but awful solemnity swallowed them whole.

The Puritans were the 16th-century English Protestants and their successors in 16th-17th-century New England, whose concern for church reform and spiritual renewal earned them the originally derogatory epithet, “puritan.”

Methodists, according to Lloyd-Jones, also emphasized new life. There was an emphasis on the doctrine of regeneration and rebirth, something that was not as common in the time period when Methodism was born.

Spurgeon's Christ-centeredness sprang from a deep, personal relationship with the Lord. He loved Christ passionately, and his sermons are filled with rapturous exaltations of Christ.

Brothers, be a reader. Take up the Scriptures daily. Walk with the saints of old in their writings. Sharpen your mind with truth and let your heart be stirred by the great works of God in history.

We not only need help in understanding what our Bibles teach us; we need flesh-and-blood models for how put that teaching into practice.

John Knox (c. 1514 – 1572) was a Scottish clergyman and theologian who became a key leader in the Scottish Reformation. He is widely regarded as the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

MacArthur served as the senior pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, for over 55 years, beginning in 1969. His pulpit ministry was marked by clear, careful, consecutive, verse-by-verse exposition of the Word of God.