Husbands, 8 Admonitions to Love Your Wife
The more you love God the better equipped you will be to truly love your wife.
Christ loves the whole Christian–heart, mind, body, soul–and every other part. Only as we come to terms with what that means will we be able to obey God’s word. “Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.” Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. (Col. 3:19, NKJV) When... Continue Reading
What Does it Mean to be Devoured by Satan?
The devil desires to consume a believer who is being used by God.
Our adversary, the devil, who is Satan, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. He is not interested in devouring those who are compromising. He is not after those who are not serving. No, he is after those who are humble and serving the Lord, being used by Him in ways that... Continue Reading
How Shall We Be Like God?
This question isn’t merely academic.
Fundamentally, while we are made in the image of God, it remains the case that we are not God. One of the ways that we differ from God is that God determines the difference between right and wrong; our place is to recognize and accept the determinations that God has made. Ponder a paradox... Continue Reading
Wilhelmus à Brakel and The Christian’s Reasonable Service
À Brakel’s work continues to be acknowledged as one of the true classics of the Dutch Further Reformation.
À Brakel wrote this work for church members—not for theologians, though it was his wish that they benefit from it as well. This explains why this work is permeated with practical application of the doctrines he so thoroughly explains. À Brakel’s intent in writing is inescapable: He intensely wished that the truths expounded would become... Continue Reading
The Still, Small Voice You Have to Wait For
The Lord often doesn’t speak in the grand and miraculous, but in the small and silent.
If you want to hear the Lord speak, then don’t be hasty. Understand that you might have to wade your way through a storm, and earthquake, and the fire. And know that those things might take a while. A long while. I don’t like to wait. Neither do you. To be fair, it’s not... Continue Reading
Can Christians Affirm Multiple Wills in God?
Any position that posits multiple wills in God potentially can disrupt the unity of the one, simple God.
If the Father and Son do not have a unified will and nature which can be distinguished by subsistent relations or origin (eternal generation), then the unity of God comes under threat. And specifically, the Arians threatened God’s unity by not affirming eternal generation and instead affirming some sort of relation in which the Father... Continue Reading
Prodigal Daughter
I am a sinner, ransomed and redeemed, lost and found.
That night on the floor with my Bible, I realized that I had two options. The first, of course, was to give in to the despair and walk away for good. In so many ways, it would have been easier. I was so far into the world already, and I desperately wanted what it offered—status,... Continue Reading
Uses of the Law in Psalm 119
Think of this as a starting point for considering the uses and purposes of God’s law.
As strangers and sojourners in this barren land, we are not left without instructions. Just as the Old Testament Jews had Moses as their guide to the promise land, we too have been given instructions for life as we wait to enter our eternal promise land (vs. 54). God’s law shows us the path we... Continue Reading
Time Does not Exist (It Has no Substance)
Everything that has a beginning has motion.
When our bodies grow matter and develop, we call this age. When our bodies atrophy and begin to shut down, we too call this age. We define our own age on the basis of the earth’s rotation and orbit around the sun. One orbit of the earth around the sun, one year we gain. ... Continue Reading
What Is the Kingdom of God?
The kingdom of God is wherever God reigns, and since He reigns everywhere, the kingdom of God is everywhere.
God’s messianic kingdom will be ruled by God’s appointed Messiah, who will be not just the Redeemer of His people, but their King. So when John speaks of the radical nearness of this breakthrough, the intrusion of the kingdom of God, he’s speaking of this kingdom of the Messiah. Suppose someone asked you that... Continue Reading