This week the blog is sponsored by RHB Publications, and adapted from Joel R. Beeke, Puritan Reformed Theology.
The church should stand against worldly infiltration and not look like spiritualized culture. How do we live out our Lord’s command in Matthew 5?
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. (Matthew 5:13)
The world despises godly Christians, regarding Christian holiness as hypocrisy, Christian purity as priggish moralism, and Christian righteousness as the seedbed of hatred.
But this situation is nothing new. Our Lord Jesus said, “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 5:10). If we live according to the Word of God, we will be persecuted
What, then, are Christians to do? How can we be salt in our world so that we can resist evil, do good, and move unbelievers to glorify God as our Father in heaven? One answer is to draw from the wisdom of the English Puritans. The eighteenth-century evangelist George
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