“Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” (John 15:2)

I do not have a green thumb and my knowledge of horticulture is very rudimentary. However, I have experimented with growing roses, and I...

We live in a world that needs awakening. What is awakening? It is a powerful movement of the Spirit of God to convert many people to Christ and to renew in His church a zeal for His truth, for spiritual growth, and for missions. This was R.C. Sproul’s passion, and in the final years of his...

It’s one of those moments we wish we could have seen firsthand. It took place in the square before the Water Gate. At daybreak, Ezra brought out the law. He unrolled the scroll and began reading. He kept on until noon, and all the while the great crowd gave their rapt attention. The law was...

It's time for our weekly $5 Friday sale. This week's resources include such topics as providence, apologetics, Calvinism, suffering, salvation, ethics, worldview, and more.

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Here's an excerpt from Qualified Children’s Sunday School Teachers, Stephen Adams’ contribution to the May issue of Tabletalk:

Since the advent of modern Sunday school, church leaders have been tasked with finding volunteer teachers. Finding adequate volunteers can seem impossible, so we...

In this brief clipfrom his teaching series Justified by Faith Alone, R.C. Sproul reminds us that it's not the doctrine of justification by faith alone that saves—it's Christ who saves. 

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Just this week I was reading Facebook and reading people's comments on social media. I read...

"The twentieth century, it is safe to say, has made us all into deep historical pessimists." So observed Francis Fukuyama in his seminal 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man. What happened? The nineteenth century’s humanistic faith in inevitable moral progress was destroyed on the...

Here's an excerpt from The Simplicity of God, James Dolezal’s contribution to the May issue of Tabletalk:

Theology is the study of God and of creatures in their relation to Him. The goal is to know God and to worship Him in truth. In this connection, Christians rightly confess a profound...

When I was a boy, my parents made me go to church every Sunday morning. I had no desire to go. I found the worship service boring and could not wait for it to be over so I could go play. But even worse than Sunday morning worship was the weekly catechism class, which was held on Saturday morning....

In the language of the Westminster Confession of Faith, the church comprises the "whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be, gathered into one, under Christ the Head thereof" (25.1). This is otherwise known as the invisible church. In another sense, the church is the body of the...

It's time for our weekly $5 Friday sale. This week's resources include such topics as Romans, prayer, John Knox, repentance, grace, hell, John Calvin, joy, and more.

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The military is a mission field and a spiritual battleground.

Around the world, the men and women who serve in the U.S. military dedicate their lives to protecting freedom. Through the struggles of war, injury, and multiple deployments, military chaplains are there to support the troops on the front...

Here's an excerpt from The Sin That Clings So Closely, Garrett Kell’s contribution to the May issue of Tabletalk:

In the Word, we see Christ’s person. We witness the eternal Son lay aside His divine rights and humbly come among us. Amazingly, we see Him leave a world where angels cried:...

In this brief clip from his teaching series What Did Jesus Do?, R.C. Sproul reflects on the name that is above all names.

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Remember when Jesus was in the upper room the night before His execution? That night that He established the Lord's Supper and He went through that lengthy...

What does the church most need today? In answering this important but rather general question, Psalm 81 is uniquely important and helpful. This psalm obviously contains beautiful promises and clear directions to help the people of God. But careful study of this psalm will deepen our appreciation of...

Today is the final day to register for Defending the Faith, ourWest Coast Conference, we will send you R.C. Sproul’s video teaching seriesDefending Your Faith as a bonus resource. In addition to two days of teaching from gifted teachers like W. Robert Godfrey, Steven Lawson,...

In the 1960s, I met a young man who had come to America from England less than a week before. His name was John Guest, and he went on to become an Episcopalian minister and national evangelist. When we first met in Philadelphia, he had hair down to his shoulders and a guitar strapped to his back;...

From time to time over the centuries some Christians have taught, sometimes with tragic consequences, that a truly spiritual person never gets discouraged. To be cast down is, by definition, to be 'unspiritual.' Unless we are well-grounded in Scripture, it is very easy for us to be overwhelmed,...

It's time for our weekly $5 Friday sale. This week's resources include such topics as Reformed theology, Jonathan Edwards, the atonement, sacraments, Puritans, money, John Owen, and more.

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The Bible teaches us to pray without ceasing, but many Christians struggle with prayer. Is there a right way to pray? How should we address a holy God? Does prayer really change things? Even Jesus’ disciples understood there was something lacking in their prayer life after they observed Jesus...

Here's an excerpt from When Hope Is No More, Burk Parsons' contribution to the May issue of Tabletalk:

Life is full of disappointment. In this fallen world of sin, people disappoint us, and we disappoint them. We disappoint our friends, our loved ones, and we even disappoint ourselves. Not only do...

In this brief clip from our 2015 Fall Conference, R.C. Sproul rejects the doctrine of the carnal Christian.

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One of the great and ghastly errors—not just error but heresy—that permeates the evangelical world today is the doctrine of the carnal Christian. The...

Second Corinthians 11:28 always seemed like a strange verse to me — until I became a pastor. Here's Paul, rattling off all the ways he’s been beat up for Jesus — imprisonments, lashes, rods, stonings, shipwrecks, drifting at sea, sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, cold and...

Here's an excerpt from Our Final Hope, Michael A. Rogers' contribution to the May issue of Tabletalk:

buried Hope recently. She was a mature Christian woman, eighty-six years young, who constantly exemplified her name throughout the two decades that I was her pastor. When we first met, she was in...

If youregister this week for Defending the Faith, ourWest Coast Conference, we will send you R.C. Sproul’s video teaching seriesDefending Your Faith as a bonus resource. In addition to two days of teaching from gifted teachers like W. Robert Godfrey, Steven Lawson, Stephen Nichols, Burk...