My mind comprehends the concept of authorial intention and its importance by thinking through how I would want a reader to interpret my writing.

In this episode, we examine Chapter 16 of the Westminster Confession of Faith: Of Good Works.

The development of Jeremiah Burroughs’ doctrine of Christian contentment did not occur in a vacuum.  His life circumstances forced him to face the issue of being content in this world.

Where Adam’s disobedience imputes a sin nature to his posterity, Christ’s perfect obedience imputes righteousness to those the Father has given him

In this episode, we compare Moses' striking of the rock in the wilderness for the provision of water with the chastisement of Jesus for the provision of living water (Exodus 17:1-7; 1 Corinthians 10:1-5; Isaiah 53:4-5, 10-11).

Picture Ahithophel’s king, David, sleeping on his comfortable couch. He raises out of his slumber, stretches his arms, yawns, and shuffles his feet beneath himself, hoping to touch his elusive sandal with his ever-searching hallux.

We want to take this opportunity to say thank you for supporting us this past year. It is a blessing to extol the supremacy of Christ to the nations.

Certainly, much of what Christ did was miraculous, but it is the underlying compassion, mercy, beneficence, and obedience to the Father that accompany them for which we are called to have as the underlying motivation in our own good works.

In this episode, we examine Chapter 8 of the Second London Baptist Confession: Of Christ the Mediator.

Slavery to sin is a slavery unlike any other. It is a bondage that is rivaled by no other form in any other time. It is a taskmaster that is more heinous, ruthless, relentless, conniving, deceiving, and destructive than any other that has ever or will ever exist. Sin demands more, and takes more than any slave on Earth has ever given.

if you have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, you have been given this will and this heart and this faith and you must avail yourself to them, lest you shrink back and your heart wander away

No, rather this is a sacrifice that is in keeping with each and every sacrifice to God we see in all of scripture. He defines what it is and how it is brought. And he has clearly shown us in his word, by giving us the very words to bring to him as a sacrifice of praise from our lips: the Psalms. God will not accept a wrong or unauthorized sacrifice.

Here is a man who is vigorous in the pursuit of his religion. He is zealous in chasing after God. Those who know with full assurance that they are going to heaven continually press forward and toward it.

In this episode, we examine Chapter 8 of the Westminster Confession of Faith: Of Christ the Mediator

I rely on my yearly Bible reading to help me understand the given Testament’s context, so there is no pressure to read the entire Old or New Testament at once to understand a singular word or verse.

But see very clearly, beloved, the one who was put to shame on our behalf. Our Savior, Jesus Christ was lifted up upon an instrument of death, designed for criminals of the highest order.

When we read Paul, therefore, it is imperative to get into his head in order to understand rightly what he is trying to convey to the original audience and the reader in every age.

This introductory episode describes the primary purpose of Christ's first advent: to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).