Truth For Life Blog

For Christians, the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our faith. But for many who have never explored the story of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, the details may be largely unknown, and the story on the surface may appear to be more myth than fact.

Topics: Monthly Resources

Give me a sight, O Savior,
Of Thy wondrous love to me,
Of the love that brought Thee down to earth
To die on Calvary.

Topics: Hymns and Worship

“He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. … And of his kingdom there will be no end.”
Luke 1:32–33

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper

In Mark 4, Jesus tells a parable in which a farmer sows seed in his field. As he scatters, the seed falls on four kinds of soils: on the path, on rocky ground, among thorns, and then on good soil (vv. 3–8). The sower in the story, as verse 14 makes clear, is the one who declares God’s Word, beginning with Jesus and extending to faithful Bible teachers in every age. Jesus’ parable teaches that whenever God’s Word is faithfully proclaimed, it is met with different kinds of responses.

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Come, let us join our cheerful songs
With angels round the throne.
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues,
But all their joys are one.

Topics: Hymns and Worship

“The Christian is made strong and firmly rooted by all the trials and storms of life.”
—C.H. Spurgeon

Topics: Weekly Wallpaper

What was Jesus referring to when He asked Peter in the garden of Gethsemane, “Shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?” We might be prone to think that the “cup” He mentioned symbolized the physical suffering Christ would meet on the cross—but, as Alistair Begg points out in his sermon “Shall I Not Drink the Cup?,” He probably had something even more momentous in mind:

Topics: From the Archives

In medicine, certain vital signs—breath in the lungs, a pulse felt on the wrist, movement in the eyes—show that a person is alive. The same is true in the church, spiritually speaking: If a local body is truly alive, a few indicators will make it easy to tell. Where these vital signs are present in a congregation, they prove that Jesus Christ is in fact the head of that body.

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We love the place, O God,
Wherein Thine honor dwells;
The joy of Thine abode
All earthly joy excels.

Topics: Hymns and Worship

Sighing on Sunday: 40 Meditations for When Church Hurts explores the difficult—but unfortunately not uncommon—circumstances of pain experienced by people from others within the church.

Topics: Monthly Resources