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
Religion
Anyone Who Discards Gay People Doesn’t Have A Human Heart – Pope Francis
Pope Francis who addressed celebrities who visited him, stated that anyone who discards Gay people doesn’t have a human heart. The Catholic leader whose speech Read more
Why do we celebrate Easter And How is the date for Easter determined?
Why do we celebrate Easter? Answer: Easter is celebrated in countries throughout the world. For some, the traditional festivities center on welcoming the spring season, whereas 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
Seven Jehovah’s Witnesses Tortured By The Police (Photos)
At least Seven Jehovah’s Witnesses have been tortured In northern Russia by the police because of their religious views. The organisation was banned by Russia’s 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
Pope Francis Travels to UAE in Support of Tolerance, Interfaith Dialogue
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is seeking to turn a page in Christian-Muslim relations while also ministering to a unique, thriving island of Catholicism as he Read more
Why Did God Create the World?
After the question: Does God exist? to which God answers, I Am (Exodus 3:14), the next question that has shaped us most deeply at Bethlehem is: Why did God Read more
It is shameful stealing pants for rituals, says cleric
The founder , Faith Revival Apostolic Church , Apostle Paul Adenuga, has described the stealing of female pants to make quick money as very Read more
The Pleasure of God in His Son
We begin a new series of messages this morning that will take us, Lord willing, through Easter Sunday morning, April 19. So I would like to begin Read more
Pray to Receive Your Reward: Five Lessons from Jesus’s Prayer Life
Prayer can be difficult. As one theologian of the past said, “There are times in my life I’d rather die than pray.” When it comes Read more
FIGHTING FOR JOY AFTER TRYING EVERYTHING: When I still don’t desire God
It’s been fifteen years since I wrote When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy. I wrote it because hundreds of people who hear Read more
Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name
What an unspeakable and undeserved privilege it is to stand in this pulpit again and look out on you, the flock that the great Shepherd Read more
