Where Can You Find Peace and Safety?
The fallenness of the world is very real.
Peace and safety are granted by God’s grace through faith in His word, not through the self-righteousness and pride of religious and political activism. Paul thus humbles us, but also encourages us greatly, “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a... Continue Reading
3 Marks of Christian Ministry
The agony you go through in ministry is for the sanctification of those you serve.
True Christian ministry is affectionate affliction for another’s sanctification. You need all three pieces. You must have a genuine love for the person you are serving, not just a “I love them for what they can do for me” mentality. You must be committed to laboring on through suffering and difficulty. True Christian ministry fights... Continue Reading
Homosexuality: To Affirm is to Apostatise — The Bible Demands That We Treat Human Sexuality as a First Order Salvation Issue
All those who encourage others to persist in homosexual relationships are in extreme spiritual danger.
The Bible treats the issue of human sexuality as one of primary importance. It is a salvation issue. Those who practice, teach and encourage sexual sin of any kind without repentance are in great eternal danger. This is not simply an issue of differing interpretation between brothers and sisters in Christ. It is not something... Continue Reading
Our Tender Shoots Ravaged by the “Mouse”
Our nation has a widespread plague of sin-sickness that is victimizing and destroying our youth.
America has been uniquely blessed with the opportunity to repent from this sinfulness which is quickly destroying the younger generation of our nation. In fact, we have been commanded by God to raise our children in the training and admonition of the Lord to avoid that great tragedy (Ephesians 6:4). This is why Christians, above... Continue Reading
The Temptation for a Quiet Life
It Isn’t Workable
As tempting as it is to just say “do whatever you want”, we are not serving another person’s good by doing that. If someone is deviating from God’s Word, if someone is moving away from the commands of Christ – whatever they may be – we serve their interests best by calling them back to... Continue Reading
The Christian’s Ongoing Battle with the Devil
One of the Devil’s most effective strategies is to destroy the church from within.
Anyone who has served Jesus for any length of time will appreciate the truth of there being an evil entity who is intensely opposed to the reign of Christ. Plans to prayerfully spread the Gospel are met with a myriad of obstacles, and we often experience persecution (Revelation 2:9). Especially, getting the family ready for church on... Continue Reading
Death and the Intermediate State
God’s Word answers our longing for a glimpse of things to come—not exhaustively but sufficiently; not to satiate our curiosity but to reassure our anxious hearts.
To depart in death and be with Christ is “far better” than life in this sin-cursed world, but that intermediate state is not our final hope. Better still is that day when our Savior appears from heaven to “transform our lowly [physical] body to be like his glorious [physical] body” and we are reconstituted as... Continue Reading
Does Revelation 5:9 Prove That All Kinds of Cultural Expressions Will be in Heaven?
The New Testament perspective on ethnicity seems to be that of eliminating ethnic distinctions rather than highlighting them.
While it is certainly possible (and even probable) that lots of different kinds of cultural expressions will be present in the worship of heaven, there is no Scriptural proof of this, and there is certainly no proof that all cultural expressions will be there. For one thing, it is at least instructive to note that at... Continue Reading
Blessed Weakness
Weakness really is a blessing for the believer.
Weakness is how his power and all-sufficient grace are seen and known. The one who is never weak, who never suffers or breaks down, will not be able to know the perfect power of God or his all-sufficient grace. So then, I will glory in my weakness that his grace and his power might rest on... Continue Reading
Four Ways of Serving God During Christmas
In his sermon, “Holy Work of Christmas,” Spurgeon unpacks Luke 2:17-20
Let your soul lose itself in wonder, for wonder, dear friends, is in this way a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship; being astonished at what God has done, you will pour out your soul with astonishment at the foot of the golden throne with the song, “Blessing, and honor,... Continue Reading
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