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It is to Christ alone and not to the mediation of the Church that we need to turn for grace and salvation.

The unbeliever finds this incredible, because he has been blinded by the joy-depriving lie of Satan that to glorify God is the high road to joylessness. Thankfully, Christ reveals that the reverse takes place in Him — because of our salvation, through His revelation, in worship’s blessed communion, and by means of tribulation.

<p>King David rejoiced at the realization of brothers dwelling together in unity. So too may we because our unity proclaims to the world we are Christ followers and are surrendered and bound to Him for His glory and for our good. And King David said it well that it is a good thing. </p>

Imagine how the average person would have responded if they were placed in Martin’s situation. How many of us would have simply thrown in the towel when faced with a career-ending illness? Too often, we are quick to give up when we are met with difficulty and trials. Let us remember that even if we are suffering, we are commanded to work hard for the Lord.

You considered your salvation to be “great” early in your Christian life didn’t you? Do you still think about it that way today?

Coming alongside those who are struggling with loss, illness, and other life difficulties with one-on-one pastoral care, support groups, lay counselors, etc., is part of Scripture’s “bearing one another’s burdens” (Gal. 6:2). But what about disturbing the comfortable?

On Tuesday, April 13, Ligonier Ministries hosted Here We Stand, a free online streaming event celebrating the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther’s stand for God’s word at the Diet of Worms. During this special event, Ligonier Teaching Fellows Drs. Sinclair Ferguson, W. Robert Godfrey, Steven Lawson, Stephen Nichols, Burk Parsons, and Derek Thomas explored the essential truths championed in the Protestant Reformation. Through a series of sessions, these teachers considered the o...

In order for Christ to be our second Adam, he had to fight and win on the same battleground where our first Adam lost. The first Adam fell as man; therefore, Christ must stand as man — as one “made like his brothers in every respect . . . yet without sin” (Hebrews 2:17; 4:15). No animal and no angel could undo our ancient curse; that task was left for a perfect second Adam. “If we are to be holy,” Ferguson writes, “that holiness must be wrought out in our humanity....