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Truth For Life — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:44:50 -0400

"God, in his great plan and purpose, has made you in the way that he desires." –Alistair Begg

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God has made you in the way that he desires

Truth For Life — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:22:20 -0400

"God, in his great plan and purpose, has made you in the way that he desires." –Alistair Begg

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Basics 2013 Audio & Video

Truth For Life — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:14:52 -0400

Access video and audio from the Basics 2013 Conference as it becomes available.

Monday - May 13

3:00pm Kevin DeYoung - "Praying Publicly" Audio | Video
4:15pm Alistair Begg - "I Found It Necessary" Audio | Video
7:00pm Thabiti Anyabwile - "A Basic Prayer Life... Most of the time" Audio | Video

Tuesday - May 14

9:15am Kevin DeYoung - "The Clarity of Scripture" Audio | Video
11:00am Thabiti Anyabwile - "A Basic Plan for Protecting the Truth and the Flock... Most of the time" Audio | Video
1:15pm Thabiti Anyabwile - "Starting Over Without Leaving: Recovering from a Bad Start in Pastoral Ministry" Audio | Video
2:30pm Alistair Begg - "The Dangers and Delights of Long Term Ministry in One Place" Audio | Video
7:00pm Kevin DeYoung - "Fairness, or Grace?" Audio | Video

Wednesday - May 15

9:30am Q&A - All Speakers
11:00am Alistair Begg - "Now to Him" Audio | Video

Do you want to lead or be liked?

Truth For Life — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:10:34 -0400

"Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked?" –Alistair Begg

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Photos from Basics 2013

Truth For Life — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:47:44 -0400

We have uploaded a few photos from this year's Basics conference at Parkside Church. This year's speakers were Thabiti Anyabwile, Kevin DeYoung and Alistair Begg.

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We cloak our cowardice

Truth For Life — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:35:14 -0400

"We cloak our cowardice with the ill-fitting garment of political correctness." –Alistair Begg #basicsconf

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Jesus Christ, the True Prophet

Truth For Life — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:52:59 -0400

Scripture urges us to fix our eyes upon Jesus.¹

Very few books have made more impact on our lives than The Memoirs and Remains of Robert Murray M‘Cheyne. Robert M‘Cheyne was the Scottish minister of St. Peter’s Church, Dundee, from 1836 to1843. He died at the age of twenty nine. But his life, preaching, and indeed his whole ministry were marked by a profound Christ-centeredness. We often reflect on his words: “Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. Let your soul be filled with a sense of the excellence of Christ.”²

This is our great need—to have our minds and hearts filled with a sense of the greatness and incomparable glory of Christ. When you think about the deeply narcissistic age in which we live and how much we are tempted and encouraged to be focused on ourselves, M‘Cheyne’s words still echo in our ears down through the corridors of time. We need to take them to heart every single day. We have already noted that one of the “looks” we can take at Jesus is to see him as the seed of the woman. In addition to this, the Bible helps us to see him as the Christ. Christ means “anointed one.” In the old covenant, three particular people were anointed for the service of God: the prophet, the priest, and the king. These three dimensions reveal more fully both his person and his work.

In many ways the church as a whole is indebted to John Calvin for explaining the importance of this “threefold office.”

When Calvin introduced this theme in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, he noted that some of his contemporaries used these terms of Jesus “coldly and ineffectually, because they do not know what each of these truths contains.”³ Simply put, it is possible to be adept at using this phraseology, even in an erudite way, but yet leave hearts cold so that our teaching fails to express the power of the truth we are describing. We end up explaining concepts instead of pointing to Jesus himself. It is important, then, if we are going to employ this grid to help us understand Christ, that we use it properly.

In this chapter we will look at Jesus as the heaven-sent prophet and think of him in four ways.

The fundamentals of education used to be referred to as the “three Rs”—reading, writing and arithmetic.” These are basic and essential to our ability to function in the world. In a similar way we might say there are four Rs that are basic and essential to our knowing Christ as our prophet and enjoying communion with him.

1-Heb. 12:1–2.
2-Andrew Bonar, Memoir and Remains of Robert Murray M‘Cheyne (1844; repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1966), 293.
3-John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. J. T. McNeil, trans. Ford Lewis Battles (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960), 2.15.1.

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The Lord God Omnipotent reigns

Truth For Life — Fri, 10 May 2013 08:45:16 -0400

"The Lord God Omnipotent reigns. It may not seem so, but it *is* so." –Alistair Begg

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Think about these things

Truth For Life — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:40:45 -0400

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure...think about these things. Philippians 4:8

Listen to "Thinking Like Christ" by Alistair Begg »

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The spent word, like the fired arrow

Truth For Life — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:26:04 -0400

"The spent word, like the fired arrow, is never coming back." –Alistair Begg

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Basics 2013 Audio & Video

Monday - May 13

Tuesday - May 14

Wednesday - May 15

Do you want to lead or be liked?

Listen to the opening message from Basics 2013 by Alistair Begg »

Photos from Basics 2013

View photos from Basics 2013 Conference »

View conference live »

We cloak our cowardice

Listen to this message by Alistair Begg from the book of Jude »

Jesus Christ, the True Prophet

Request a copy of Alistair's new hardcover book "Name Above All Names" today for just $5

The Lord God Omnipotent reigns

Listen to "Fix Our Eyes on Christ" by Alistair Begg »

Think about these things

Listen to "Thinking Like Christ" by Alistair Begg »

The spent word, like the fired arrow

Listen to this message from Alistair Begg »