The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ and Their Significance
The seven statements that Jesus Christ made on the cross were (not in any particular order): (1) Matthew 27:46 tells us that about the ninth hour Jesus Read more
Inspiration
If We Could See What Happens On Sunday from Heaven
Have you ever caught yourself looking past Sunday morning? Has the promise of the week ahead ever begun to eclipse the wonder of gathering with Read more
The Path to Full and Lasting Pleasure
The main point of Psalm 16, at least as I understand it, is this: God will bring you — body and soul — through life Read more
You’re Not a No-Body Because God Has Made You His Own Through Jesus Christ
As I recently prepared to celebrate my 51st Easter, it occurred to me that one of the most important journeys I have taken during my Read more
‘The Lust of Pornography Is Insatiable’: How Porn Is Affecting Single Men and Marriages
A man’s pornography addiction has devastating impacts on himself, his wife, and his family. Countless marriages and broken families have been a direct result of Read more
Jesus Is Most Magnified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him
God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him and since God created the universe to be glorified in, therefore, our Read more
Weakness and Failure Will Build Your Faith In God
Letter to My 30-Year-Old Self There are so many things I wish someone could have told me at thirty, because at thirty I thought I Read more
Grab Hold of God: – The Importance of Wrestling in Prayer
I struggle with knowing how to pray. Should I trust that everything is in God’s hands and rest knowing he will do the best thing Read more
We Sin Because We Forget: How do you stop committing a certain sin?
How do you stop committing a certain sin? Some suggestions may involve putting guardrails up around areas of temptation or being held accountable by trustworthy Read more
How to Confront Disappointment with God’s Promise
I hung up the phone, discouraged. Weeks before, a leader in our church told me they might have to leave the country because of work. Read more
Why Did God Create Us? How God Answers Today’s Skeptics?
Did God just make me to punish me? Why did he create me in the first place? To what end? Huge, massive questions arrive every Read more
He Wept as They Welcomed Him: The Hope and Sorrow of Palm Sunday
Save us, we pray, O Lord! . . . Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! (Psalm 118:25–26) When Jesus approached Jerusalem on what history Read more
10 Things “Yahweh” Means
God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God Read more
Jesus Christ is the Same Yesterday and Today and Forever
Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for he himself has said, “I will Read more
Consider Each Other How to Stir Up Love
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one Read more
Why Do Christians Preach and Sing?
Spectacular News and the Beauty of Christ I wonder if you have paused to ponder how simple and strange these Passion events are. Year after year Read more
How to Experience the Outpouring of God’s Love
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access Read more
Marriage Firmly Based in Grace: Forgiving and Forbearing
You recall perhaps that my wife, Noël, said, “You cannot say too often that marriage is a model of Christ and the church” (see Ephesians 5:31–32). Read more
Why Does God Choose Some and Not Others?
We currently have 150 emails now about Romans 9, by far the most asked-about chapter in the Bible in the inbox. Here’s one of them, Read more
We Complain Because We Forget
I am stunned every time I read the story of the exodus. How can the people of Israel complain like they do? How could they Read more
God Works Through the Weak
“You want me to do what?” It was all I could muster. For some reason, I didn’t immediately say no. Being asked to speak at Read more
Is Jesus Christ Man’s Only Hope for Salvation?
1. Posing the Question The question posed in this title really contains three questions, and they are utterly crucial for the missionary task of the Read more
The Pleasure of God in Those Who Hope in His Love
Up until now, we have focused our attention on the pleasures that God has in himself and in his work. He has pleasure in his Read more
Preparing to Receive Christ: Willing to Do the Will of God
About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. The Jews marveled at it, saying, “How is it that this Read more
Battling the Unbelief of Anxiety
Let me hang a bridge between last Sunday’s text and our concern today with the unbelief of anxiety. In Hebrews 3:12, it says, “Take care, brethren, lest their Read more
Live to Die: A Leader Who Suffers Well
We read in 1 Thessalonians 1:6, “You also have become imitators of us and of the Lord.” In this text there are two people who are Read more
Living Holy: Four Ways to Fight Sexual Sin
Sexual sin goes against who God created humans to be. The Bible teaches us this lesson in Proverbs 5 as the sage warns a young married Read more
The Pleasure of God in Election
Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it; yet the Lord set Read more
The Meanings of Love in the Bible
Love in the Bible, as in our everyday usage, can be directed from person to person or from a person to things. When directed toward Read more
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
There is a connection between the beheadings of Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong and Nick Berg and Paul Johnson and perhaps Kenneth Bigley, and this Read more
