Tabletalk Magazine

15/10/2025

For Martin Luther, the questions of the true nature of God’s grace in Jesus Christ and how the gracious God saves sinful humans was central to the Reformation. —Nicholas R. Needham

Before the fifth century dawned, Christians had discoursed about the freedom of the human will in the setting of their long dispute with paganism and gnosticism.

15/10/2025

In heaven, the church will be beautiful, as well as good and true. —R.C. Sproul

15/10/2025

God’s abundant provision in Him—every spiritual blessing—is far greater than our weaknesses. Looking to Christ in faith, may we learn with Augustine that God indeed grants what He commands. —L. Michael Morales

In describing his experience in terms of bo***ge and deliverance, Augustine was assessing his life through the lens and worldview of Scripture, his thoughts expressed in a profoundly biblical manner, supplying us with a helpful entry into the topic at h...

14/10/2025

Christians have never been content to treat free will as a philosophical abstraction. We want to know how the will relates to salvation. Does man choose God? Does God choose man? Or is it a combination of both? —Thomas Brewer

Few questions have spilled more ink--or stirred more hearts--than this: Does man have free will?

14/10/2025

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. —Sinclair Ferguson

14/10/2025

By bearing and enduring pain, we walk in the footsteps of Jesus and mirror and reflect Him to onlookers. Pain and suffering are opportunities to show the love that God has shed abroad in our hearts. —R.C. Sproul

If love is going to endure in the Christian life, love must be able to bear a certain amount of pain and disappointment. I think Paul is talking about the grace of God in the gift of love that makes it possible for us to deal with suffering.

13/10/2025

God’s unchanging truth is sure, certain, and objective and is displayed in either the natural revelation of His created order or the special revelation of His inspired Word. —George Grant

God is truth (John 14:6). In fact, truth is such an essential aspect of His character that He is called by the name “Faithful and True” (Rev. 19:11).

13/10/2025

The human dilemma is this: God is holy, and we are not. God is righteous, and we are not. —R.C. Sproul

13/10/2025

Between “bearing” and “enduring,” we are told that love “believes all things, hopes all things.” It’s only as we believe the Word of God and have confidence in our future that we’re able to bear and to endure. —R.C. Sproul

If love is going to endure in the Christian life, love must be able to bear a certain amount of pain and disappointment. I think Paul is talking about the grace of God in the gift of love that makes it possible for us to deal with suffering.

11/10/2025

Unhampered and unfettered truth is the only ground on which honest, open, and free relationships may be built—whether in families and communities or among societies and nations. —George Grant

God is truth (John 14:6). In fact, truth is such an essential aspect of His character that He is called by the name “Faithful and True” (Rev. 19:11).

11/10/2025

If the bravest thing we can do is ask for help, it’s a good thing God gave us a Helper. —Pierce Taylor Hibbs

I’ve heard it said that real hope is painful, because hoping means risking disappointment—even despair. That’s why we sometimes avoid hope. But avoiding hope is a perilous move. It leaves us hollow and heartless. Without hope, we become obsessed with ourselves in the here and now.

11/10/2025

Christ is made our righteousness, and we are counted the righteousness of God in Him. —John Calvin