Ligonier Q&A - R.C. Sproul, R.C. Sproul Jr, Steve Lawson, Robert Godfrey, Sinclair Ferguson

If you have not seen this, watch it. Its good stuff.

Sinclair Ferguson and Archibald Alexander

Sinclair Ferguson

What do Sinclair Ferguson and Archibald Alexander have in common? A vast amount of resources of both have been generously posted for us at Feeding on Christ. Thanks to Nick Batzig and John Hendrix who brought all this together. We are grateful.

Archibald Alexander

Links to Alexander's bio can be found here and Ferguson's here. We can learn much from both men. Each has written volumes and much of Ferguson's preaching we have recorded for us. Enjoy the links and be sure to share them.

A Look at the Book of Hebrews with Sinclair Ferguson

Sinclair Ferguson

...The big picture in Hebrews is fairly straightforward. Put simply, it is “Jesus is the greatest.”

Jesus is: greater than angels (chaps. 1–2); greater than Moses (3:1–4:12); greater than the priests and high priests (4:13–7:28); and greater than the Old Testament sacrifices (chaps. 8–10).

Since this is so, like those heroes of the faith who looked forward to the Messiah’s coming, we need to: keep our eyes glued to Him as we persevere in faith (chaps. 11–12) and live together as the new covenant community (chap. 13).

If we get lost in the details, Hebrews will appear to be a long, maze-like book. But if we grasp the big picture, we will see why the author thought he had “written … only a short letter” (13:22, NIV).

The above is from Time to (Re)Discover Hebrews by Sinclair Ferguson at the Ligonier Ministries website. Take a few moments to read the whole article and spend some time a the Ligonier website enjoying the many things they have to offer. You'll be enriched.

Ferguson & Flavel on Union with Christ

A few salient thoughts from Sinclair Ferguson on union with Christ...



To follow that up we have a new book published, The Inner Sanctum of Puritan Piety, John Flavel's Doctrine of Mystical Union with Christ by J. Stephen Yuille. This looks to be another must buy, at least for me and maybe for you as well. Tony Reinke throws in his two cents on this here. This is an often overlooked doctrine which many of us, myself included, should spend some time studying.

Sinclair Ferguson Interview

As a follow up to my last post on the finished work of Christ, CJ Mahaney has been posting excerpts of an interview with Sinclair Ferguson this week on the Sovereign Grace blog and its brilliant stuff. Mahaney has been quoting Ferguson and asking him to comment and this ties in so well with my last post.

Ferguson's quote:

The glory of the gospel is that God has declared Christians to be rightly related to him in spite of their sin. But our greatest temptation and mistake is to try to smuggle character into his work of grace. How easily we fall into the trap of assuming that we can only remain justified so long as there are grounds in our character for justification. But Paul’s teaching is that nothing we do ever contributes to our justification.

How often we feel that if we had only done this or that then such and such would not have happened or if I had just not been thinking this way or if I was just a better Christian then.... This line of thought is biblically false and I am so glad it is. Our character will never earn us God's grace and we need to be thankful for that for it never could.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest
any man should boast. Eph 2:8-9