Far from being a burden, the commands of God are meant to bring us life.  Pastor Ben Miller, in The Kingdom Has Drawn Near, illuminates:
I remember wrestling as a younger man with the whole “problem” of authority. I have concluded over the course of my life that I do have a problem with authority. I [...]

An excerpt from Ben Miller’s book, “The Kingdom Has Drawn Near: Studies In The Gospel Jesus Preached“, from chapter 3, “The Kingdom and the Church”:
The church is not a voluntary society. It is the sphere in which God’s loving, gracious, faithful rule of his people concretely operates through the keys of the Word and sacraments [...]

Pastor Ben Miller, author of The Kingdom Has Drawn Near: Studies In The Gospel Jesus Preached, gives us his recommended readings.
Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments by Geerhardus Vos
Not always easy reading, but the foundational text of Reformed biblical theology. A must-read.
Paul: An Outline Of His Theology by Herman Ridderbos
A seminally insightful exploration of the [...]

Here are some interesting links that have been posted to SD News in the past week:

John Calvin’s 500th – a superb collection of resources relating to John Calvin.  One could learn a lot just reading these articles.
Books and Ideas That Helped Shape the Way I View the World – Six books that have shaped the [...]

It is not life’s busyness that eats the life out of the soul, if by “busyness” one means simply having a lot to do. To be human is to have a lot to do. What wears down the inner life is the near-impossibility of sustained concentration on any one thing in a world in [...]

Last night, some friends and I were enjoying the late spring night while discussing the current economic situation.  One fellow was lamenting the loss of manufacturing jobs to countries like Mexico and China, jobs that created the middle class of this country not too long ago.  America is becoming less and less a nation that [...]

Since the first book we are publishing is about the Kingdom of God, I have veered away from the Covenanters and have been digging into books related to Kingdom theology and eschatology.  If you want to experience a paradigm shift in your thinking, not only about Paul’s theology, but your entire concept of the Kingdom [...]

The question of how to turn fools into sages may not be particularly interesting to those unable to discern the difference. To those, however, who understand what scripture is talking about when it uses such terms, the question is one of some urgency. For fools, to state the thing plainly, are [...]