God’s Grace is Sufficient in Your Weakness
We want to rejoice in God’s good plan in our lives and His supply of grace.
God’s grace is sufficient in your weakness – whatever that is – today as well. If you are physically weak, spiritually weak, emotionally weak, or mentally weak, in any case, God promises to provide you the strength in your weakness today and this week. What an incredible gift from God! Do you ever feel a... Continue Reading
Love and Respect: Rediscovering the Beauty of Biblical Marriage and Gender
Paul makes very clear that every marriage is to reflect the relationship between Christ and the Church.
In a culture that has lost its way on marriage and gender, one of the best ways we can display the Gospel is by embracing what Scripture teaches about them and living lives that display their beauty to the world. Christians need to take their cues from Scripture and perform the marriage and gender dance... Continue Reading
The Surprising Fruit of Cultural Christianity
Cultural conformity to biblical morality can even work as the catalyst to help an unbeliever realize that they need Christ.
If you live in a part of the country (or world) that’s more “culturally Christian,” don’t merely look down on those who you live among as being “inauthentic Christians.” That’s your mission field, and the fields just might be ripe for harvest. Several months ago I had the opportunity to visit some family friends... Continue Reading
“Guilt, Grace & Gratitude”: Part 1 — Guilt
We are all guilty before God.
Where is the exceptional self-made saint? There is “none…no, not one…together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one” (Rom. 3:10, 12). We cannot escape our guilt and sin because we are “by nature children of wrath” (Eph. 2:3) and there is no escaping nature—it is what we are. “If you, who... Continue Reading
The Gospel Spreads Widely in the Present, and Forward Into the Future.
Christ’s victory carries on throughout all generations.
The gospel going forward has nothing to do with OUR LEGACY. Becoming focused on our legacy will distract us from the gospel mission. Worrying about how people will remember us is a surefire way to succumb to all sorts of temptations, distractions, and pitfalls. The gospel going forward means we are primarily concerned with how... Continue Reading
How to Live for God with Fear of Rejection
Developing Pauline Confidence
The fear of rejection is often a fear piled on top of other fears and uncertainties. The solution is to make the fear of rejection “a small thing”. And the way to make the fear of rejection a small thing is to make the acceptance of Christ a bigger thing. And the only way that... Continue Reading
Polity Protects the Pulpit
Church government is subordinate to the worship of God.
God has appointed for the protection of the pulpit is biblically regulated and sincerely administered polity.[1] Note that polity is an instrument. Polity is not an end in itself. The proper end toward which biblical polity is aimed is the worship of God. Worship comprises the reading and preaching of God’s Word, along with various other... Continue Reading
He Made Them Male and Female
The ongoing relevance of Genesis 1 and 2.
God created male and female, boys and girls, men and women. Our bodies are not opposed to our identities but, rather, give objective and biological clarification to who we are. We are not bodiless image bearers. We are embodied creatures because bodies matter. And bodies matter because God made them. The first time the... Continue Reading
The Forbidden Woman: Some Thoughts on Love, Marriage, and Adultery
Proverbs 5 provides us with great insight into the pathway of adultery.
In Proverbs 5, the father makes clear that adultery, beginning in the mind as sinful desires are entertained, is a pathway to death. Sexual sin destroys one’s strength, life, and has the curious effect of suppressing all truth that was once know as it leads to ruin (read carefully the consequences detailed in Proverbs 5).... Continue Reading
Going to Church Is Hard but Worth It
Having the ideal Sunday is kind of like having only green lights on the way to work.
God’s pattern in Scripture is not to shower His people with blessings in the midst of comfortable and pleasant circumstances; rather, He most often calls us into difficult and uncomfortable scenarios, pouring out His blessing upon us there. That is what we can rightly call normal. Because Sundays are a time of great blessing, we should expect them... Continue Reading
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