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The Peacemaker

The Peacemakers

Dustin Benge
Mar 2, 2019
With each passing beatitude in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, it becomes more and more clear that a person cannot be a genuine Christian without have their attitudes and actions completely and radically transformed from the inside out. Regardless the extent of your exegetical gymnastics,...

The Peacemakers

Dustin Benge
Mar 2, 2019
With each passing beatitude in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, it becomes more and more clear that a person cannot be a genuine Christian without have their attitudes and actions completely and radically transformed from the inside out. Regardless the extent of your exegetical gymnastics,...

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

Dustin Benge
Dec 24, 2018
Think back on an exciting time in your life when you were overwhelmed with emotion at the sight of something beautiful, a sudden surprise that captured your attention, or a moment of intense grief that seemed to cause your heart to fail within you. Any scenario we might recall of such intense...

Augustine's Theology of Preaching

Dustin Benge
Nov 21, 2018
From its inception, preaching has held a prominent place within the life and advance of the church. A current revival of expository ministry is being cultivated throughout the evangelical world. However, such renewed awareness and commitment to an expositional pulpit ministry has been nurtured with...

Augustine's Theology of Preaching

Dustin Benge
Nov 21, 2018
From its inception, preaching has held a prominent place within the life and advance of the church. A current revival of expository ministry is being cultivated throughout the evangelical world. However, such renewed awareness and commitment to an expositional pulpit ministry has been nurtured with...

Augustine's Theology of Preaching

Dustin Benge
Nov 21, 2018
From its inception, preaching has held a prominent place within the life and advance of the church. A current revival of expository ministry is being cultivated throughout the evangelical world. However, such renewed awareness and commitment to an expositional pulpit ministry has been nurtured with...

The Comfort of the Glory

Dustin Benge
Oct 12, 2018
We are taken, in Matthew 17:1–8, to a setting that only three disciples are allowed to witness––Peter, James, and John. Six days prior, Jesus had forewarned his disciples what to expect once they entered Jerusalem. He described the events of his rejection, crucifixion, and the...

That is Revival

Dustin Benge
Sep 28, 2018
Writing a foreword for his friend Philip Hughes in 1947, Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote, “There is no subject which is of greater importance to the Christian church at the present time than that of revival. It should be the theme of our constant meditation, preaching and prayers."1 He...

Origen on Prayer

Dustin Benge
Sep 17, 2018
Until the third century, as far as we know, no full treatise on the subject of Christian prayer had been written. According to Eric Jay, "Christian literature of the first two centuries by no means ignores the subject of prayer. It would be difficult to cite any work by a Christian author in this...

Origen on Prayer

Dustin Benge
Sep 17, 2018
Until the third century, as far as we know, no full treatise on the subject of Christian prayer had been written. According to Eric Jay, "Christian literature of the first two centuries by no means ignores the subject of prayer. It would be difficult to cite any work by a Christian author in this...

The Persecution Driven Life

Dustin Benge
Aug 31, 2018
John Hooper, the English Reformer and pastor, was burned at the stake for his unwavering stand upon the truth of Scripture. In 1555, just three weeks prior to his martyrdom, John Hooper gave the following charge in a letter: "You must now turn all your thoughts from the peril you see, and mark the...

A Soul-Refreshed Life

Dustin Benge
Aug 17, 2018
On a spring day in 1747, twenty-nine-year-old David Brainerd rode horseback into the yard of a Northampton parsonage. It was the home of eminent New England pastor and theologian, Jonathan Edwards and his wife Sarah. Edwards and Brainerd, prior to this day, were relative strangers to one another,...