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A Personal Relationship with God?

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  • Jakob van Bruggen

This article is about our personal relationship with God, living with God in faith, personal worship, and our devotional life.

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A Personal Relationship with Jesus

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  • Nicolaas H. Gootjes

This article is about our personal relationship with Jesus Christ: personal knowledge and this relationship with Jesus, and doctrine and our relationship with Jesus.

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God Does Sing Over You

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  • Gary R. Cox

This article is about God's delight and pleasure in those who believe in his Son Jesus Christ.

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Piety – A Foot Too High?

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  • Johannes Veenstra

What is true piety all about? This article considers what it means to have a personal relationship with God through Christ. It shows from history how rationalism has impacted how the Scriptures and God are viewed. It ends with an emphasis on faith and trust in God.

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Piety as Biblical Reality

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  • Willem van 't Spijker

This article explores the concept of piety as it is depicted throughout the Bible.

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Communing with the Holy Spirit

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  • Jonathan K. Dodson

This article outlines what communion with the Holy Spirit looks like, as well as its result.

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The Believer and His Bible

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  • Robert D. Decker

This article shows that the most challenge facing believers today is not understanding the Bible, but believing it.

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Communion Everybody is doing it ... But what exactly is it that we’re doing?

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  • Bas Luiten

Christians have communion with the Triune God, which flows over to the communion of saints. This communion is only found in Christ.

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Jesus, My Friend

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  • Allan Jellett

Jesus is described as a friend to believers. This relationship of friendship involves fellowship, communication, obedience, and holiness.

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Personal Time With Father

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  • Eric Kampen

This article is about developing a close relationship with God.

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The Missing Ingredient

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  • Joseph A. Pipa

This article is about our communion and relationship with God.

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Personal Relationship Covenantally

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  • J. van Rietschoten

This article is about our personal relationship with God and our covenant with God. The author also discusses the beginning of our relationship with God, and the covenant as a bond from God.

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Pleasing our Father

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  • Gary R. Cox

This article is about our relationship with God: finding our delight in God himself!

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Communion with God

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  • Gerald R. Procee

This article looks at God's relationship with his people, the essence of communion with God and how this relationship with God was obtained by Christ.

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Is There Only One Motivation for Obedience?

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  • Michael J. Kruger

What should drive our sanctification? Is it our justification alone that should? This article suggests there are various kinds of motivations for obedience, including the rewards prepared and the joy available.

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Spiritual Growth

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  • Joel R. Beeke

Spiritual growth is essential to the Christian life. This article makes clear that Christians are called to it, they must desire it, and they must show the marks of Christian growth.

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A Call for Return to God's Attributes

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  • Joel R. Beeke

Growing in godliness happens when believers grow closer to God. The article explains that the church today needs to return to an understanding of the attributes of God.

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When You've Failed, Lean on Jesus

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  • Leah Baugh

Failure is a painful thing, and dealing with failure is even harder. This article explains in four ways that the best way to deal with failure is to lean on Jesus.

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The Piety of John Calvin

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  • Ford L. Battles

John Calvin succinctly defined Christian piety as "that reverence joined with love of God which the knowledge of his benefits induces." Included in his many discussions on piety are terms such as faith, fear, reverence, love, and knowledge. The central themes of Calvin's piety were the honouring of God and being thankful to him. This article surveys Calvin's writings on piety and seeks to understand his view on the topic.

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Practice Your Devotion

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  • Tim Challies

It is your private devotion that fuels your public reputation of godliness. This article explains that devotion is rooted in a relationship with the Lord. It then discusses ways of practicing your devotion.

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How We Live for God's Glory

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  • Lawrence J. Bilkes

Living for the glory of God is only possible when one is redeemed by Christ and living for God's glory through body and spirit. This is what the article brings forward.

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The Piety of John Calvin

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  • Ford L. Battles

To John Calvin, piety consisted of reverence for God motivated by love and rooted in a true knowledge of God. This article shows how Calvin developed this understanding of piety for the Christian life. Then it shows the implications for the church today.

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Subjective Revelation

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  • Walter J. Chantry

This article shows the relationship between objective revelation and subjective revelation.

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A Tale of Two Pieties Reformational Holiness

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  • Michael Horton

The emphasis on having a relationship with Jesus Christ at the expense of church membership has produced a false dichotomy in piety. This article shows that true holiness is personal but also finds its expression among God’s covenant people.

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Puritan Writers Enrich the Modern Church

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  • Brian G. Hedges

The modern church can gain a lot from the Puritans. From them we learn to see God in his greatness. They paint the beauty and loveliness of Christ. They show the nature of sin and reveal the power of God’s grace. These and more are what this article will show you.

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A Living Relation with God

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  • Clarence Bouwman

Believing in God is not just a matter of knowing about God. Faith in God involves a life of trust and dependence in God, flowing from a living relationship with Him.

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Loving God for Who He Is

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  • John Piper

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in who He is.

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Why God Tells Us He Delights in His Children

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  • John Piper

What is it about His children that God delights in? And why does He inform us that He delights in us?

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Piety – Examples from History

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  • Johannes Veenstra

This article looks at Pietism and piety, and considers examples from history, such as the Donatists, Labadists, and Mystics.

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A Breathing After God

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  • Richard Sibbes

The article offers a devotional study of a godly man's heart as it is supposed to pursue God and the goodness of God..

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How Can We Know God?

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  • Michael Horton

From John 8:19-24 Jesus shows that the revelation of God is in him. This article argues this by pointing to the biblical evidence that the key to knowing God is knowing Jesus Christ.

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Andrew Bonar and Fellowship with Christ

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  • Iain H. Murray

Communion with God brings resemblance to Christ, makes a man humble, brings right priorities, affects a man’s preaching, and it makes a man expectant. This is what we learn from the life of Andrew Bonar.

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Christ – The Lover of Our Souls

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  • Maurice Roberts

This article is about our fellowship with Jesus Christ, experiencing the love of Christ and being far from the love of Christ.

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In Need of Help

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  • Paul David Tripp

Why is it hard to admit that we need help? As this article explains, we tend to buy into two great lies, that we are autonomous and self-sufficient. The author explains what makes these lies so wrong, and how to pray for the Lord's help.

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