Check out our new Gospel section on the NCFIC website loaded with audio and print articles by Charles Spurgeon, Joel Beeke, Paul Washer, John Calvin, John MacArthur, John Piper, and others explaining the gospel.
Jonathan Edwards points out one of the wonderful effects of true awakening on people in the Church – a sense of absolute dependence. The drift of the Spirit of God in his legal strivings with persons, has seemed most evidently to be, to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Iain Murray, in his very helpful book Revival and Revivalism, shows what genuine awakenings look like. He offers these seven signs: 1. The revival has made its appearance in various places, without any extraordinary means to produce it... 2. As...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
There is no more controversial subject than how the Law of God applies today. Here John Knox masterfully and precisely explains: We confess and acknowledge that the law of God is most just, equal, holy, and perfect, commanding those things which,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jesus shows the tragic state of our lives when we don't listen to those He sends. Our house is left desolate when we do not listen to the prophets. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Today you are looking at a former emergent, missional, conversational, tolerant, and unifying waste of pulpit space. By God's grace I stand before you a redeemed wretch, kingdom member, and a profoundly changed man. Not too much more than a year...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What kind of reactions should we have toward our sin? Thomas Goodwin says this: Work in your hearts a hatred of sin… If a man had killed your friend, or father, or mother, how would you hate him! You would not endure the sight of him, but...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When speaking of the beauty of the name of Jesus, Calvin quotes a statement from Bernard, "The name of Jesus is not only light but also food; it is also oil, without which all food of the soul is dry; it is salt, without whose seasoning whatever I...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In this video clip, Michael Horton puts his finger in the wound and makes some very important and culturally relevant comments about what it means to fulfill the Great Commission. He says that we have lost confidence in the means of grace that God...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The longings and rejoicings that accompany times of awakening are recorded in this account of an Awakening on the Island of Arrau in Scotland in 1812: "For some months after the commencement of the awakening, the subjects of it manifested an...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
