Ventura, Rob, Expository Outlines & Observations on Romans: Hints and Helps for Preachers and Teachers. Ross-shire: Mentor, 2023 I just checked my Logos Bible Software to find 160 different commentaries on the book of Romans, and another dozen or so on my...
Ventura, Rob, ed. A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689. Ross-shire: Mentor, 2022 Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, well over 100 reformed confessions of faith were written and adopted by faithful congregations. These...
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to...
Food is one of the greatest gifts from God. I love food. I love to smell it, I love when it’s put together in a way that is visually beautiful, and I love to cook it and prepare it and try new things with it. Think of all the colors and textures and tastes, and the...
If a Christian spends all his time reading and listening to the mainstream media, he will undoubtedly come to the conclusion that the world is radically divided. Conflict drives ratings and increases clicks online, but human conflicts and divisions have been with us...
Legalism is an attempt to win God’s favor apart from the finished and sufficient work of Christ on behalf of sinners. This is a doctrinal legalism that undermines the gospel. There also exists a practical legalism that is often ignored or misunderstood—a legal root...
In John Bunyan’s classic tale, The Pilgrim’s Progress the main character is a man named Christian and he meets many people along his journey. One of the men he meets is a man named Faithful. Faithful recounts to Christian something that happened to him when he found...
The Threefold Division of God's Law Christians often find it difficult to understand the place of God’s law in the New Covenant. Without making proper distinctions of the various kinds of laws found in Scripture, many Christians have struggled to find answers to the...