You Need to Know Jesus to Understand the Bible: The Clarity of Scripture Part 5
The Son of God lights the Word of God.
If you do not read the Bible with the ultimate goal of seeing the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, you don’t understand Scripture. We need to see Christ’s glory through his illumining power to truly appreciate why his Word is and what his Word does. Without illumination, Scripture is a textbook... Continue Reading
Two Ways We Argue with God
False humility is always at one of two extremes. It is either lower than God would have it, or it is higher than God can tolerate.
False humility goes lower than God allows when it treats it as a faux pas to put little things into God’s hand. Many think it would be injudicious for them at such a time as this to ask God to heal their sore head which incapacitates them from hearing the preaching, or to help their... Continue Reading
Our Response to Suffering is a Powerful Teacher
Suffering with Patience Opens a Door
Our faith and obedience in the midst of suffering matters—a lot! It matters not just in regards to our own relationship with God, but because both unbelievers and fellow saints look on. When we respond in faith, as Mike did, we shine the light of the Gospel brightly. When we endure well in God’s grace,... Continue Reading
4 Ways to Show Your Love for the Lord
What does it practically look like to love the Lord and how can we grow in that love?
My prayer is that as Christians we would grow in that love as we go about our daily lives learning to be satisfied in the situations that God has placed us in, reading and trusting in God’s Word and promises, obeying His commands as a sign of our faith and always thanking Him for the... Continue Reading
Brokenness is His Speciality
Yes we are all broken, but we have a God who specialises in dealing with this.
I need to be reminded afresh of a gentle, tender Lord who wants to heal our wounds and deal with our hurts. And because he has shed his own tears as the perfect God-Man, he is well placed to wipe our tears as well. Our God specialises in mending the brokenhearted and restoring the prodigal.... Continue Reading
Christ or Chords? The Manipulated Emotionalism of Hillsong, Asbury, and Pentecostalized Evangelical Worship
Musically Manufactured Emotion is No Work of God
True religion does consist in the religious affections, and music is a wonderful gift from God that helps to give expression to the affections created by the Spirit through his Word. But we must be careful to define spiritual affections biblically and put music in its proper place. Otherwise, we risk worshiping chords instead of Christ.... Continue Reading
How the Divine Armor of the Messiah Becomes Ours
The different elements of the “panoply of God.”
One temptation we have in our examination of the armor of God is to get wrapped up in the armor itself and not in the one who gives it to us. As noted, this armor is the Lord’s own which he wore to defeat all his and our enemies in his great conquest of sin... Continue Reading
How Does the Bible Talk about Sin?
Sin’s most basic feature is that it puts human beings at odds with God and His good design.
One of the strategies of the Evil One is to try and convince us that sin is no big deal. He wants to convince us that “sin” is just a handful of harmless things that prudish church people don’t like. He says, “Nobody knows. Nobody sees. And even if they do, it doesn’t matter, because... Continue Reading
The Christian’s Justification
How the Gift and Grant of Faith is Our Eternal Hope
If your faith is in your good deeds, the idea that being a “good person” is enough to get you into heaven, than that faith is worthless. It has no power, nor worth, to gain you entrance into the celestial kingdom. True saving faith will show itself in the obedience the redeemed give to the revealed testimony... Continue Reading
You Would not Believe if Told | Habakkuk 1:5
Habakkuk received this word with fear and trembling.
Just as God predicted, Habakkuk could not believe his ears. Yes, Israel was sinful, but they were still God’s people. How could God use such wicked tools to punish His people, the very people that He redeemed out of Egypt? This revelation from God must have hit Habakkuk like a battering ram to the chest. Habakkuk... Continue Reading
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