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The Dangers of a Murmuring, Discontented Spirit I The Mystery of Contentment Series: Part 3

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  • William Barclay

This is the first of two articles on the topic of the dangers of discontentment. This article shows that grumbling and a lack of contentment is contrary to holiness and reveals rebellion against God.

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Our Besetting Sin

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  • C. S. Lewis

The chief cause of all misery is pride. It was through pride that the devil became the devil. Pride is enmity between man and man and enmity to God.

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Selfaholism

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  • David P. Murray

Self-centredness, self-righteousness, self-promotion, self-love, self-praise are all signs of selfaholism. This article shows that selfaholism brings misery, while serving others brings happiness.

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Pride and Our Idol Factories: The Disturbing Relationship between Pride and Idolatry

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  • Wes L. Bredenhof

This article looks at the relationship between pride and our making of idols. The dangers of pride for our relationship with God is discussed.This article has to do with the second commandment. The author also discusses a godly pride.

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How Not to Be Perfect

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  • Anna Smith

Are you a perfectionist? This article offers some reflections on how to defeat perfectionism.

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The Kryptonite Within

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  • Patrick Darrin

Pride can motivate you to be a hero, but it can also demotivate you not to be one. How? Pride has many faces. This article explains four of them.

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Self-Image: Detecting the Fear of Man

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  • Maarten Kuivenhoven

What makes us fear others and what they will think? How do we detect our fear of man? This article looks to help us get to the root of the problem by raising a series of questions on the matter.

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Pride Will Have a Fall

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  • H. Hofman

How can Christians fight against the sin of pride? This article answers this question by defining pride, pointing to its dangers, showing its source, and making a call to fight it.

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A Voice for Young People Today

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  • J. Den Hoed

One of the dangers facing young people is the hardening of the heart. How can you know that you are hardening your heart? This article gives eight ways that can help you discern.

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The Sin That Hides behind Piety

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  • Silverio Gonzalez

What is the greatest stumbling block to pursuing holiness? It is pride. Pride makes you blind to the real problem.

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Hidden Idols: Unseating the Idol of Pride

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  • Hershael York

This article exposes the idol of pride, which is the ultimate secret sin, and explains how to overcome pride.

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Glory Junkies (Part 1)

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  • Paul David Tripp

Do you parade your righteousness, talk too much, and have a sense of self-importance? Then you know you are a glory seeker. This article explain how these three are signs of glory seekers.

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Glory Junkies (Part 2)

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  • Paul David Tripp

Are you a glory seeker? This article, the second in a two-part series, provides five more signs that we are addicted to our own glory.

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More Highly Than You Ought

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  • Paul David Tripp

What are some common factors that seem to contribute to a distorted view of self? This article lists four factors that distort how you see yourself and lead you to seek self-glory.

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Three Easy Ways to Find Out If You’re Feeding Your Idols

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  • Tracy Richardson

When do you know that you have become an idolater? There are three questions you can ask yourself to reveal the idols within you: Who is in control? What story are you telling with your life? How do you respond to a win or lose situation?

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Four Inner Rings You May Be Pursuing

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  • Jeremy Writebol

Motives fuel our pursuits. How do we discern whether our motivations are good for the things we pursue? This article uncovers four pursuits our lives may be gravitating towards: acceptance, authority, applause, and abundance.

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Three Essential Truths to Kill Our Desire to Prove Ourselves

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  • Tracy Richardson

How can we put to death our self-justification and selfish ambition? This article presents three gospel truths to help in this: God is the judge, your greatest need is peace with God, and Christ's work on the cross is the most important accomplishment.

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Idolatry: A Fatal Attraction (Part 1)

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  • Brad Andrews

What makes idolatry so attractive? This article explains the charm of idolatry, and how replacement gods ultimately don't deliver what they promise.

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Idolatry: A Fatal Attraction (Part 2)

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  • Brad Andrews

The Bible condemns idolatry. How can you tell if you are an idolater or not? The article explains that you can tell by knowing what rules your heart.

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Become Idolaters by Forgetting the Gospel

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  • Joey Tomlinson

When we forget the gospel we commit idolatry. How? We start to live from good works. This article discusses this matter, and the solution to it.

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Humbling Hezekiahs

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  • Andrew Kerr

Pride is an enemy to pastoral ministry and leadership. From the life of Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20:12-19, 2 Chronicles 32:24-31, and Isaiah 39:1-8 this article shows the dangers of pride, its workings, and how to crucify it.

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Killing Envy

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  • Nicholas T. Batzig

Do you struggle with envy? Did you know that the root of envy is pride? This article offers several ways in which to put to death the sin of envy: know who you are in Christ, remember God's promises, thank God for the gifts of others, learn from the gifts and accomplishments of others, and be content with however God is pleased to use you.

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Psalm 73: Envy Is a Window

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  • Paul David Tripp

This article reveals how envy is a window into the real struggles of our heart.

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God’s Hatred of Pride

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  • Garry Eriks

God hates pride. This is the truth expressed in Proverbs 6:16-17. This article explains how pride expresses itself in its relationship with God and neighbour. The author points to the need of repenting of all pride.

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How to Turn from Your Idols

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  • Eric McKiddie

Idolatry is a struggle for everyone. How can you turn from idols? Based on Psalm 115 this article gives four ways to turning from idols.

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The Art and Science of the Humblebrag

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  • Tim Challies

"Humblebrag" is a statement in which you pretend to be modest but which you are really using as a way of telling people about your success or achievements. Bragging or boasting is made easy by social media. This article shows ways of such bragging.

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I’m Better Than You

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  • Tim Challies

Pride seeks to make people conform to you because you think you are better than them. This article expands on this.

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What the Wayward Wants

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  • Tim Challies

Why is it that it is difficult to reason with the wayward? The reason is that there are three things the prodigal wants, and this article outlines them.

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Do Not Envy the Wicked

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  • Tim Challies

The Bible warns Christians against envying the wicked. What is it that Christians can envy from the wicked? This article explains five things.

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The Easiest Sin to Justify

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  • Tim Challies

What is the easiest sin to justify? This article argues that unrighteous anger is that sin.

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A Sin That Threatens Calvinists: Spiritual Pride

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  • Solano Portela

Spiritual pride is harbouring the thought that one possesses a superior vision. In showing how this pride has taken different forms throughout church history, this article makes plain that this is the danger facing Calvinists. It can be avoided by giving God all credit for the truth received.

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How We Rebuke Pride

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  • David Lipsy

This article shows how the mindset of living under the cross, getting help from others and God, and acknowledging that all we have is given to us by God, is crucial for fighting pride.

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A Just War

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  • Joel R. Beeke

From Matthew 23, this article shows how one can fight the sin of pride—pride of knowledge, accomplishment, and reputation.

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The Seven Deadly Sins in a Digital Age: Envy

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  • Bradford W. Littlejohn

This article looks at the seven deadly sins in the context of our digital age. The author focuses here on the sin of envy.

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The Seven Deadly Sins in a Digital Age: Pride

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  • Bradford W. Littlejohn

This article looks at the seven deadly sins in the context of our digital age. The author shows how pride flows from self-love and admiration. Individuals can fight against this vice by cultivating a life that is dependent on God.

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The Seven Deadly Sins in a Digital Age: Sloth

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  • Bradford W. Littlejohn

This article looks at the seven deadly sins in the context of our digital age. The author of this article shows how easy it is to fall into the sin of being slothful and lazy. Failure to delight in God results in a lack of motivation to be engaged with creation and encourages laziness.

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The Lord Alone Will be Exalted: Making War on Pride

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  • John Piper

What does God think about pride? This article discusses the nature of pride and its remedy.

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Worldliness

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  • A. W. Verhoef

This article explains that worldliness is the attachment of the heart to worldly possessions.

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When Relief Becomes a Refuge

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  • Doug Van Meter

Relief becomes a refuge when good things are turned into idolatry. How can you know if you are trapped in this idol trap? This article raises three questions to consider in this regard, and one antidote.

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Spiritual Drafting and the Danger of Christian Complacency

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  • Tim Challies

Complacency has no room in the Christian life. Why? This article explains the danger of spiritual drafting.

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Worldliness!

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  • Donald C. Macaskill

The Bible warns against the love of the world. This article looks at the characteristics of worldliness.

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The Management of Our Pride

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  • Maurice Roberts

This article looks at pride, and the need to continue growing in the likeness of Christ.

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Eight Markers of Arrogant Folks I've Known

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  • Chuck Lawless

This article lists eight characteristics of an arrogant person.

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Five Ways People Worship Themselves

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  • Le Ann Trees

Idolatry is rooted in seeking a god who agrees with you. Here are five ways you can use to tell if you are caught in self-worship.

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Psalm 73: The Distortion of Envy

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  • Paul David Tripp

This article, through the window of Psalm 73:2, explores the sin of envy. It shows that envy is not an emotional response to what is, but an interpretation of what is.

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    • Thirty Nine Articles of Religion
    • Different Confessions
    • Preaching of the Confessions
  • Doctrine of life - Ethical principles
    • Christ and the Christian life
    • Purpose of Christian life
    • Discovering the will of God - General
    • Use of Scripture in ethics
    • Seeking the kingdom of heaven
    • Christian freedom
    • Discipleship
    • Following and Imitation of Christ
    • Old Testament Ethics
    • Ten Commandments
      • Ten Commandments (General)
      • First commandment
      • Second commandment
      • Third commandment
      • Fourth commandment
      • Fifth commandment
      • Sixth commandment
      • Seventh commandment
      • Eight commandment
      • Ninth commandment
      • Tenth commandment
    • Law
      • Law (General)
      • Fulfillment of the Law
      • Legalism
      • Law and Gospel
      • Theonomy
    • Case Laws
    • Natural Law
    • Creation order
    • Sermon on the Mount and Ethics
    • Guidance of the Spirit
    • Identity of God's people
    • Love and hate
    • Common good
    • Authority
    • Position of the Christian in this world
    • Christian mind
    • Conviction and tolerance
    • Discernment
    • Christian lifestyle
    • Responsibility & Collective Responsibility
    • Compromise
    • Conflicting obligation
    • Conscience
    • Impartiality
    • Justice
    • Tradition and accomodation
    • Wisdom and prudence
    • Ethics of Christian Community
    • Indifferent things (Adiaphora)
    • Submission
    • Self-denial and Hedonism
    • Temperance and Abstinence
    • Virtue
    • Worldview
    • Vocation
    • Truth and lying
  • Doctrine of life - Ethical themes
    • Gender - Role of manhood and womanhood
    • Sexual Ethics
      • Sexual Ethics - General
      • Homosexuality
      • Premarital Sex
      • Sex Education
      • Lustfulness and Chastity
      • Pornography
    • Dating and Singleness
    • Marriage and Family
      • Marriage (General)
      • Family (General)
      • Adoption
      • Procreation and Family Planning
      • Adultery
      • Celibacy
      • Childhood
      • Adolescence
      • Young Adulthood (Twenties and Thirties)
      • Middle-Age (Forties and Fifties)
    • Divorce and remarriage
    • Education (General)
      • Christian education
      • Purpose of Education
      • Discipline
      • The child
      • Child development
      • Theories of Education
      • History of Christian Education
    • Parenting
    • Schooling
      • Teaching and Learning (General)
      • The Christian school
      • Home schooling
      • Teaching methods
      • The Curriculum and Evaluation
      • The Teacher
      • The School Board
      • Parents and the School
      • Church and the School
      • Place of Government in Education
    • Friendship
    • Hospitality
    • Economics
      • Economics (General)
      • Code of ethics for economists
      • Economic Theories
      • Development
      • Income Distribution
      • Inequality
      • Scarcity
      • Sustainability
    • Work & Employment
    • Business Ethics
      • Trade Unions and Strikes
      • Wages and Salaries
      • Prices
      • Labour Standards
      • Minimum Wages
      • Business Ethics (General)
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Wealth & Poverty
      • Money and Possessions
      • Tithing
      • Generosity
      • Borrowing and Lending
      • Poverty
      • Consumerism
      • Taxes
      • Gambling
      • Prosperity gospel
    • Environmental Ethics
      • Environmental Ethics (General)
      • Energy and Energy Consumption
      • Global Warming
    • Public Ethics
      • Public Ethics (General)
      • Human Rights
      • Equality and Discrimination
      • Race and Racism
      • Nationalism and Patriotism
      • Judicial System
      • Crime and Punishment
      • Capital Punishment
      • Social welfare
      • Social gospel
    • Political Ethics
      • Government - Role and Responsibility
      • Democracy
      • Civil Disobedience and Revolution
      • State and Church Relationship
      • War and Peace
      • Terrorism
      • Genocide
      • Pacifism
      • Nuclear Weapons
      • Interrogation and Torture
      • Refugees and Genocide
      • Political involvement
    • Christ and Culture
    • Bioethics
      • Bioethics (General)
      • Genetic Engineering
      • Cloning
      • Reproductive Technologies
      • Prenatal Diagnosis
      • Contraception
      • Surrogate Father/Mother
    • Medical ethics
      • Medical Ethics (General)
      • Health
      • Illness
      • Disabilities
      • Health Care
      • Forgoing and Withdrawing Treatment
      • Organ Donation and Transplantation
      • Definition of Death
      • Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Letting Die
      • Abortion
      • Sterilization
      • Late Miscarriage & Stillbirth
      • Epidemics
    • Beauty and Arts (General)
    • Appearance
    • Visual Arts
    • Music
    • Drama and Cinema
    • Food and Food Consumption
    • Media and Censorship
    • Sabbath and Sunday
    • Recreation and entertainment
    • Speech and Communication
    • Sport
    • Time Consumption and Priorities
    • Other topics
  • Spirituality & Godliness
    • Fear of the Lord & Godliness
    • Spiritual exercises
    • Means of grace
    • Prayer
      • Prayer - General
      • Intercession
      • God answering prayers
      • Practice of prayer
      • Bodily posture in prayer
      • Private prayer
    • The Lord's Prayer
      • Lord's prayer - General
      • Beginning and Conclusion of Lord's prayer
      • First petition - Hallowed your Name
      • Second petition - Your Kingdom come
      • Third petition - Your will be done
      • Fourth petition - Give us today our daily bread
      • Fifth petition - Forgive us our debts
      • Sixth petition - And lead us not into temptation
    • Fasting
    • Meditation
    • Singing
    • Listening to sermons
    • Personal Devotions (General)
    • Reading of Spiritual Literature
    • Family worship
    • Preparation for home visitation
    • Christ and the new life
    • Personal relationship with God
    • Walking with God
    • Spiritual warfare & struggle against sin
      • Spiritual warfare (General)
      • Struggle against Temptation
      • Living with Hope
      • Desertion by God
      • Place of sin in the believer's life
      • Spiritual growth and backsliding
    • Sanctification of the whole life
    • Spirituality and experience
    • Gratitude
    • Blessedness
    • Different Fruit of the Holy Spirit
    • Different Fruit of the flesh
    • Heavenly mindedness
    • Joy in the Lord
    • History of Spirituality
  • Worship & Liturgy
    • Principles of Worship
      • Principles of Worship (General)
      • Worship as Communion with the Triune God
      • Worship as Communion with the People of God (General)
      • Worship as Gathering and Communion of the Local Church
      • Worship as Communion with Young and Old
      • Worship as Communion with the Church of all Ages and Places
    • Elements of the worship service
      • Liturgy - General
      • Call to worship and Salutation
      • Confessing of sin and assurance of pardon
      • Praise in music and song (General)
      • Public Prayer
      • Scripture reading
      • Preaching (place in worship service)
      • Gifts and offerings
      • Corporate confession of faith
      • The Amen
      • Sacraments in the worship service
      • Benediction
    • Different Liturgies
    • Church music
      • Musical instruments
      • Character and principles of church music
      • Musicians
      • Psalms as songs
      • Hymns
      • Church choir
      • History of church music
    • Liturgical year
      • Liturgical year (General)
      • Christmas
      • Good Friday
      • Easter Sunday
      • Ascension Day
      • Pentecost
    • Church architecture
  • Church Leadership and Offices
    • Church leadership (General)
    • Offices - General
    • Pastor/Preacher - General
    • Pastor/Preacher - Qualifications
    • Pastor/Preacher - Task
    • Pastor and his wife and family
    • Theological Training
    • Elder - General
    • Elder - Qualifications
    • Elder - Task
    • Deacon - General
    • Deacon - Qualifications
    • Deacon - Task
  • Preaching
    • Preaching (General)
      • Preaching, election and the free offer of the gospel
    • Principles of Preaching
    • Purpose and Function of Preaching
    • Types of Preaching
    • Preaching Method and Sermon Preparation Process
    • Sermon Evaluation
    • History of Preaching
    • Preaching style and delivery
    • Steps for making a sermon
  • Pastoral care
    • Principles of Pastorate
    • House Visitation
    • Confidentiality
    • Psychology
    • Care in Abuse and Neglect
      • Abuse - General
      • Spiritual Abuse
      • Sexual Abuse - General
      • Child Sexual Abuse
      • Clergy Sexual Abuse
      • Spousal Abuse
      • Elder Abuse
      • Emotional and Verbal Abuse
      • Ministry to Abusers
    • Care in Addictions
    • Care in Conflict and Bad Relations
    • Care in Depression
    • Care in Self-Esteem and Inferiority
    • Care in Anger
    • Care in Anxiety
    • Care in Crisis
    • Care in Psychological illnesses
    • Care in Autism
    • Care in Loneliness
    • Care in Aging
    • Care in the Dying Process
    • Care in Grief
    • Care in Burial Practices
    • Care with Last Will and Testament
    • Care in Honouring and Grieving the Dead
    • Care in Suicide
    • Other themes of Pastorate
  • Youth ministry and catechism
    • Principles of Youth ministry
    • Material for Youth ministry and catechism
      • In Thy Hands Children Material
        • In Thy Hands Part 1
        • In Thy Hands Part 2
    • Public profession of faith
  • Church Government
    • General Principles of Church government
    • Church Order
      • Purpose and observance of the Church order
      • Offices
      • Church Assemblies - General
      • Church Assemblies - Consistory
      • Oversight of doctrine and worship
      • Church Discipline
      • No Lording
    • Different systems of Church government
    • Church government and civil government
  • History & Church History
    • Church history - General
      • Historical writing
    • Church history - Early Church
      • Ignatius of Antioch
      • Constantine the Great
      • Council of Nicea
      • Cyprian
      • Cyril of Alexandria
      • Didache
      • Early Church (general)
      • Gregory of Nazianzus
      • Irenaeus of Lyons
      • Basil the Great
      • Jerome
      • John Chrysostom
      • John of Damascus
      • Justin Martyr
      • Marcion
      • Melito of Sardis
      • Clement of Alexandria
      • Augustine
      • Polycarp
      • Athanasius
      • Patrick of Ireland
      • Origen
      • Tertullian
    • Church history - Middle Ages
    • Church history - Reformation
      • Theodore Beza
      • Ulrich Zwingli
      • William Tyndale
      • Reformation in The Netherlands
      • Renaissance
      • Zacharius Ursinus
      • Reformation in Germany
      • Reformation in France
      • Reformation in England
      • Reformation in Eastern Europe
      • Reformation (General)
      • Philipp Melanchthon
      • Peter Vermigli
      • Martin Luther
      • John Knox
      • John Calvin
      • John a Lasco
      • Hugh Latimer
      • Heinrich Bullinger
      • Guido de Bres
    • Modern Church History
      • Church history - Asia
      • Church history - Europe
      • Church history - Africa
      • Church history - South America
      • Church history - North America
      • Church history - Oceania
    • Different theologies
      • Charismatic theology
      • Evangelical
      • Roman Catholic
      • Reformed
      • Five points of Calvinism
  • Defending the faith (Apologetics)
  • Mission & Evangelism
    • Biblical Basis of Missions
    • Missions and Evangelism
    • God as Missionary God
    • Missions as Work of God
    • Missions and the Glory of God
    • The Great Commission
    • Missions and local church
    • Missions and every believer
    • Church growth
    • The Missionary
    • The Mission Board
    • The Sending Church
    • Missions and Money
    • Short-term Missions
    • Mission Training
    • Missions to Children and Youth
    • Different Mission Approaches
    • Trends in Missions
    • History of Missions
    • Missionary and Culture
    • Missionary and Politics
    • Missions - Word and Deed
    • Missions and the Social Gospel
    • Mission, election and the free offer of the gospel
    • The Message in Missions
    • Mission and the Point of Contact
    • Prayer and Missions
    • The Mission Encounter
    • Boldness in Missions
    • Material to use in Missions
    • Missions and the New Convert
    • Worship in the Mission Field
  • Other religions
    • Relationship between Christianity and other religions
    • Islam
    • Cults
    • Judaism
    • Jehovah's Witnesses
    • New Age
    • African Traditional Religions
    • Atheism
    • Other religions (General)
    • Sects (General)
  • Faith & Science
    • Faith & Science (General)
    • Evolution
  • Philosophy & Culture
The strength of the church is not in fewer sermons but in better ones. E. H. Palmer
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