• 15 Ways to Fight Lust with the Sword of the Spirit. Kevin DeYoung suggests fifteen passages of Scripture that can help us fight lust and the temptation to sexual immorality.
• God is Just as Good When He Doesn’t Do as We Want. Randy Alcorn writes “We must embrace both God’s love AND His sovereignty—not one instead of the other.”

• Woodrow Wilson Reconsidered — A Conversation with Christopher Cox. On this episode of the Thinking in Public podcast, Albert Mohler visits with former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senior Scholar in Residence at the University of California, Irvine, Christopher Cox. They discuss his latest book Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn.

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• Did the Earliest Christians Believe in Inerrancy? Timothy Paul Jones answers this question in this episode of Honest Answers.
• How Do I Apply Bible Stories to My Life? On this episode of the Ask Pastor John podcast, John Piper responds to a question that reads in part “My church is currently preaching through Luke, and while there is indeed structure, how do you ‘arc out’ a narrative? Are there different keys you look for? Are there specific transitions, markers, or triggers you are looking for in the narrative texts?”
• How Can the Church Help Raise Up People for Ministry? In this video, Joel Kim explains how churches can identify and encourage young people with godly character to pursue ministry.
• If God Pastors Me, Why Do I Need Pastors? On this episode of the Ask Pastor John podcast, John Piper responds to the question “There seems to be a divine, sovereign shepherd who can supply all our needs. And yet we still have need of human shepherds. So, how do these two tiers of shepherds work together?”
• How Do I Become Happy in God? On this episode of the Ask Pastor John podcast, John Piper responds to the question “I feel like in all this Christian Hedonism teaching, you never actually say how to get more satisfied in Christ. I’ve bought a lot of your books and read them. I ask God every day to fill me in his satisfaction. And I read my Bible every day. Besides reading my Bible and praying every day, what else is there to do? What am I missing?”

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• When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said “Repent,” He called for the entire life of believers to be one of repentance. Martin Luther
• Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments. R.C. Sproul
• We are called to die with Christ that we may live with him, and to suffer with him that we may reign with him. William Tyndale
• When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God. It’s with me. R.C. Sproul
• The world says to the elderly “We don’t need you anymore.” The church says “We have great need of you— teach us, mentor us, and lead us on the old paths that are sure and true.” Burk Parsons
• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God’s sovereign providence. R.C. Sproul
• We were created to live not for our own glory, but for the glory of the one who made us. Paul Tripp
• Salvation: If you have it, you never can lose it, and if you seemingly lose it, you never really had it. R.C. Sproul
• Who is Jesus? The answer to that question is a matter of eternal life or eternal death. Stephen Nichols