There they are, day after day, meeting in the temple for prayer. They really believed that God would keep all the gospel promises he had made in the scriptures. There was not much evidence that he would. All around them was ungodliness, false religion, hypocrisy – the very opposite of gospel. But they believed; they... Continue Reading

It is from the pulpit that God speaks to His people through the preaching of His Word. When His voice is removed and replaced with another, the church is quickly led astray. History bears witness to the fact that when the church loses its influence, the culture suffers and degrades. But worse than the damage... Continue Reading

The event also marked the official launch of the Detransition Advocacy Network headed by Charlie Evans, 28, a woman who identified as a man for a decade. Evans decided to found the group to help the hundreds of young people she says have reached out to her after regretting their own experiments with hormonal treatments... Continue Reading

Throughout this section of Sermon of the Mount, Jesus is speaking to His disciples about the difference that grace in the heart makes, how it is the key to a deeper righteousness than the Pharisees ever had, indeed than they could even understand. They saw the doing of good works, things like prayer and almsgiving... Continue Reading

Giant Christmas trees. Times Square in NYC has decked the halls. The tallest Christmas tree in America is in Idaho. But it’s all about the spectacular. It’s always been about the spectacular. The big. The great. The large. Well, if that’s what you think Christmas is all about then your God is too big. Because Christmas is... Continue Reading

Luke deliberately calls attention to the political setting of his narrative in the first two chapters; he mentions King Herod (Luke 1:5), Caesar Augustus (Luke 2:1), and the Syrian governor Quirinius (Luke 2:2). Mary praises her God who has “brought down the mighty from their thrones” (Luke 1:52). During the Roman occupation of Jewish land,... Continue Reading

O unbelief, how strange a marvel thou art! We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of his people. He keeps his promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt him. He never faileth; he is never a dry well; he is never as... Continue Reading

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God … Returned to where? They returned to where they were when the angel appeared to them to give them the announcement. They returned to their work. They returned to being the social outcasts that they were according to the community standards and traditions of the time. They went,... Continue Reading

Some of us think God is lenient about sin. Or at least we think that God is more tolerant of sin for Christians. We rightly emphasize God’s grace: that “where sin increased, grace abounded all the more” (Romans 5:20). And we should emphasize God’s grace. But I sometimes worry that we’ve fallen into the mistake of... Continue Reading

Jesus is called the “Day-Spring.” The dayspring is the dawn – it’s that moment, which ebbs and flows according to the season, when light first breaks over the darkness. But it’s more than that – it’s the first sign every day of the dispelling of darkness. It is the daily reminder that the mercies of... Continue Reading