A friend emailed me a message by Dr. John Piper called, “Can Satan Devour True Christians?” It is a sermon and transcript from 1994. He was speaking on 1 Pet 5:8-9. This message was posted on the DesiringGod.org website on July 13, 2016. His answer may surprise you. Here is Piper’s answer to his own

I received the following question in response to a blog I wrote on Walking in the Spirit: Bob, I like the explanation but how does Philippians 1:6 apply here? Paul says, “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ

I just read a blog by a friend about Jesus’ death on the cross. In the course of his discussion he said, “Darkness covered the whole land at noon (Matthew 27:45, Mark 15:33, Luke 23:44). For the next three hours Jesus was baring the sins of the world as a substitute for all of us.”

My friend Don Reiher sent me an audio link to a message by Dr. R. C. Sproul on his Renewing Your Mind broadcast from a few weeks ago. It is entitled “Dying in Faith.” It is part of a series entitled “Surprised by Suffering.” You can listen to it by clicking here. Sproul’s big idea

A reader sent me a Roman Catholic article entitled, “Justification by Faith Formed in Love (Not by Faith Alone) in the Bible and Early Church Writings.” You can find the article here. It has become common in the last twenty-five years for Evangelicals to speak of “initial justification” and of “final justification.” In this article

Preachers and Theologians Sometimes Make Up Stuff Preachers and theologians tend to be careful when explaining fundamental Biblical truths like the deity of Christ, substitutionary atonement, Jesus’ bodily resurrection on the third day, the Second Coming of Christ, and the inerrancy of Scripture. By careful, I mean that they will quote Scriptures to back up

In the Sermon on the Mount the Lord Jesus Christ said that we should not lay up treasure on earth. Why not? Because “moths and rust destroys” earthly treasure and because “thieves break in and steal” it. I’ve been a bit of a gold bug going back to the mid 80s, when I was in

Saturday, July 15, I flew into Tampa, FL, arriving at 3 PM. After checking into my hotel, which is near Bayshore Boulevard and the Bay, I walked the quarter mile down to the Bay and then walked a few miles along the waterfront. It was a great walk. What a beautiful place this is. Arriving

On Friday night and Saturday from 9:30 to 4:00 about 50 of the saints from the Denver area met for a great time of fellowship and teaching. We met at the Denver Rescue Mission and three of our speakers are chaplains there. The audio from the nine messages are now up at our website. You