What Are You Waiting For?
One of the downsides of living in the technological age is that we are constantly overwhelmed with what we allow to stream into our minds and hearts from our newsfeeds,…
Nick Batzig
Don’t Waste Your Commute
We live in what has to be the most frenetic society in all of human history. It seems as though things are just getting faster and faster, and the pressure…
A Spiritual Brotherhood
A number of years ago, Sinclair Ferguson made the observation that "the Puritan movement of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries…underlines for us the significance of spiritual brotherhood in the movements…
The Patient God
Augustine once said, “God has promised forgiveness to the repentant, but He has not promised tomorrow to those who delay repentance.” This is a sobering truth–a much needed reminder that…
Discovering Christ in the Psalms
Athanasius once made the following statement about the book of Psalms: "While the entire Holy Scripture is a teacher of virtues and of the truths of faith, the book of…
The Extra Ministry Mile
In his outstanding series of talks to young men preparing for ministry, Charles Spurgeon cited a theologian who famously said, "Study yourself to death and then pray yourself alive again."…
Giving and Receiving Commendation
Criticism is far and away one of the most difficult features of life in this fallen world. Two things in particular complicate the practice of giving and receiving criticism. Pride…
It’s All About the Recovery
At The Masters last weekend, I thought about a lesson that I learned in watching professional golfers play over the years. A number of years ago, I saw Tiger Woods…
When We Worship Our Worship
"When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen…
Keeping Short Accounts
My family moved to St. Simons Island, GA in 1989. I was 12 years old. One of the first things that I distinctly remember about that beautiful, little secluded Island…
Preaching the Funeral of an Unbeliever
Preaching at someone's funeral is one of the most difficult aspects of pastoral ministry. It is all the more difficult when it is the funeral service of a loved one…
10 Outstanding Theologians (of Whom You May Not Have Ever Heard)
Sir Isaac Newton, borrowing a phrase from Bernard of Chartres, once noted, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This maxim holds just…