Fellowship Reformed Blog
What Does It Really Take to Follow Jesus?
The cost is worth the crown. The risk is worth the reward. Jesus says, “Follow me.” What’s stopping you?
How to Be a University Student Without Being Indoctrinated
Are we really comfortable to have universities deciding and dictating what it means to be a truly well-educated and well-adjusted human being?
The Bible Doesn’t Teach That God Is All-Loving
We may not always know God’s motive in every trial that we face. But we can humbly affirm the little we do know: God is God, and we are not.
What Does It Mean to Be in Christ?
We can never be reminded enough that being in Christ, and living in his fullness is alone the great boast and assurance for His people.
What Makes “Good Friday” Good?
This is just one more thing that makes Good Friday so good. It continues to call us all to the foot of the cross, to lay aside our arrogant self-reliance, and to admit our need for God.
What Is Expository Preaching and Why Does It Matter?
Expository preaching may not always be flashy or entertaining, but when done rightly it will teach the mind, move the heart, and motivate the soul in a way nothing else can.
What Is the Meaning of Life?
Our great calling is to know God and his profound love and loyalty, and to respond with love that honors Him.
For the Christian, Reality Is Better Than Virtual Reality
People often run to virtual reality, not so much to embrace the goodness of embodied existence, but to escape it.
Why Do Churches Need to Have Elders?
As we rely on Christ as the ultimate Leader and life source of the Church, let’s benefit from the instructions he has given us, and rightly value the role of elders in our local churches.
Important Takeaways from Jesus’s Ministry Model
As we pray for more workers to minister to the lost, we should recognize that God may be answering our prayers, not by sending other people, but by equipping us for service to the people around us.
How to Promote Church Growth in Your Local Church
If you’re reading an article about church growth, it’s pretty likely you care quite a bit about God and your local church.
How to Pray When You Feel Busy
Too busy to pray? Or too busy not to?
The Long-Term Consequences of Consumer-Driven Churches
Let unbelievers in our midst be impressed, not by the production quality of our worship services, but by the incredible riches of God’s kindness to us in Christ.
The Devil Doesn’t Take Sick Days
You may have sick days. But the devil won’t.
God Doesn’t Forget His Promises
As we see how God kept his promises at Christmas – and then at Good Friday and Easter – we can be confident that these events will really happen. God has given us His Word on it.
Is Anyone Really Seeking God?
People do seek happiness and they do look for ways to be nice to other people. But the tragedy is that we’ve pursued these things in the place of God, without seeking for God.
A Productive Prayer For Opposing Pride
In my endeavors toward obedience, I look not to my own ability, nor do I rest in my own astuteness, nor do I hope in my own ambitions, but I seek here to lay aside my pride and boast only in your grace.
A Prayer When You Feel Like You’re Just Holding On
I wait for you, Lord Jesus, For I am powerless to do anything else.
What Does Real Love Look Like?
Even though people agree that love is something we should all aim for, there is widespread disagreement and confusion over what love is and what real love looks like.
What’s Reformation Day And Why Does It Matter?
The impact of the Reformation continues today.
A Good Way to Be Bad
Either we will honestly be living for God, or all our religious stunts will be nothing more than a hypocritical sham.
How Can I Know I’ll Reach Heaven?
This act of the will to choose and trust in Christ as Lord is what we know as faith, and God is the one who exercises his power to both grant us this faith and to sustain us in it.
How Can It Be Bad When It Feels So Natural?
It’s clear that what we observe in nature (the way things are) is distinct from what we perceive as moral (the way things ought to be).
God, I Need You to Lead Me: A Reflective Prayer
Father in heaven, I need you to lead me.
Is True Truth a Real Thing?
Let’s learn to think deeply. Because reality is real, whether we want it to be or not.
Are You Driven by Fear or by Faith?
As you face difficulties and decisions, weigh your heart. Are your decisions driven by fear? Or are you acting out of confidence in who God is, what he has promised, and what He has done through Christ?
The Big Problem of Narcissism
The only way to be healed of our narcissism is to have our sight captured by someone greater – someone who displays self-humbling care for the lost and hurting, someone who trains us in self-sacrificial love toward friend and foe alike. Someone who models selfless devotion to God.
Am I Worth Anything?
We take for granted that things have worth. But what is worth? What is it that makes one thing more valuable than another?
How to Pray When Your Prayers Feel Weak
I find rest in knowing that the way I feel about my fumbling prayers does not determine their fruitfulness.
What Does It Mean to Be Presbyterian?
Many churches across America have certain words connected to their name to communicate something about their affiliations and commitments.
Do We Really Need Religion?
Let’s be careful to set aside the dead rituals and sensationalized pyrotechnics of the modern age, so we may instead affirm the dignity and necessity of true religion that centers on the glory of God.
The Problem with Organized Religion
The question we should be asking isn’t whether or not we’ll have an organized religion – we all will. The essential question to ask is “How will our religion be organized?”
How to Pray for Our Children
Please be good to our children. Be gracious to our children. And be God to our children, Even as you have been our God, And will be forever.
How to Pray When Feeling Fear
If I call to heaven, will you hear? Will you bring me compassion or contempt? Will you assist me, or abandon? Relieve me, or reprimand?
A Helpful Prayer to Resist Apathy
I confess the wrongness of my heart
Which is blind to your beauty,
Disloyal to your faithfulness,
Wholly indifferent to your holy zeal.
A Prayer Amidst Great Prosperity
Lord, be my blessedness and prosperity forever. I ask for nothing less. I could ask for nothing more.
A Good Way to Pray for Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Display your goodness, we pray,
For all around Mount Pleasant to see.
Church Planting – a Sign of Life
Church-planting is a sign of life. It reminds us of the life we have in Christ. It reminds us of the power of the gospel over darkness and disbelief. It reminds us that the gates of Hell will not withstand the Church.
The Demise of the Ancient Paths
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not walk in it.” – Jeremiah 6:16
The Heart of Our Mission
Is there any mission higher and weightier and truer than the one we would imagine for ourselves?