Recommended Devotional Tool: Tabletalk Magazine

If you haven’t seen Tabletalk magazine, you’re missing out. Tabletalk is a monthly magazine which includes daily devotional readings and a Bible reading plan. It also includes several feature articles devoted to one specific theme for the month.

For a sample of some of the individual articles, see this “Best of 2011” collection from the Ligonier Blog. Contributors to the articles include R.C. Sproul, the founder of Ligonier Ministries (the publisher of Tabletalk), Al Mohler, Sinclair Ferguson, Carl Trueman, John and Noel Piper, Elyse Fitzpatrick and a host of additional scholars, writers and pastors.

This magazine would serve as an excellent daily devotional reading for 2012, and is available for only $23 a year. Best of all, you can get a free 3 month trial subscription!

Click here to learn more about Tabletalk, or just go ahead and sign up for your free trial.

Quotes to Note 4: The Bible is Truth

I subscribe to Table Talk, a monthly devotional published by R.C. Sproul’s Ligonier Ministries. Each month the magazine focuses on a theme, and this month that theme is “The Canonicity of Scripture”.

In the openeing column, Burk Parsons, the editor, captures the gist of the issue. The Bible is the Word of God, and canonization was simply the church receiving God’s Word as His Word. Canonization was not a process whereby the Church invented Holy Scriptures. Here’s how Buck said it:

The Bible is not a cleverly contrived collection of fanciful tales of mythical gods and prophets, sorcerers and goblins, hobbits and elves. It is not a Judeo-Christian anthology of sixty-six ancient books that were deemed politically and ecclesiastically correct by influential Christians of the early church who coveted worldly acceptance and prestige. On the contrary, the Bible is the book of the Lord God Almighty. It is the authoritative, inerrant, and infallible Word of God, and, as Jesus taught us in His prayer to the Father: His “Word is truth.” It doesn’t merely contain truth or speak about truth; it is truth “” it defines truth (John 17:17). We must, therefore, regard it as such.

Go on and read Buck’s entire article. Some of the other columns are also available online here.