The Savory Sucker of Hurt
Seek to do good to all and pray for those who disappoint you.
“But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.” Luke 6:35-36 There is... Continue Reading
How Can I Increase My Love for God’s Word?
“Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.” (129)
Do you love God? If your answer is yes—and assuming that your answer is true—then you can connect that truth to God’s Word since the Word of God is a reflection of God himself. How can I grow to love God’s Word more than I currently do? One night recently, I had trouble falling... Continue Reading
Knowledge and Analogy
How can we protect ourselves from wrong inferences drawn from analogies?
Each of these analogies discloses something about who Christ is in Himself. Some of them have a further lesson about who Christ is in relation to the Father. Others of them tell us who Christ is in relation to His people—which means that they tell us something about who and what we are as His... Continue Reading
Chasing Out The Demons
How Christians can guard against the darkness and overcome it with the light of Christ.
Christians should not retreat into their homes, trembling at the thought of what the world is doing outside. The kingdom of God is not defensive, it’s advancing. Jesus promised, “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). Gates don’t attack. They get stormed. Every year, October 31st exposes a fault line... Continue Reading
Lemmings
When you see the crowd going one way, stop, ask yourself why, and determine whether the world is conforming you to its patterns or whether the word of God is transforming your life to reflect more of the image of Christ.
“How am I using the technology in my life?” And, “How should Christians approach the use of technology?” “What are the benefits, drawbacks, and in what ways might technology adversely affect the Christian life and the church?”. I can remember sitting at the airport gate awaiting the call to board my flight. As I... Continue Reading
What Happens at Home
A healthy home models the gospel and provides credibility to a pastor’s leadership in the church. It’s a reminder that ministry begins with those closest to us.
The pastor’s home, as they say, is his first congregation. His home life is his primary ministry and a test of his qualifications for leading the church. To “succeed” in ministry and fail at home is to fail. In most professions, one’s personal life remains private. But pastoring is different. It’s more than a... Continue Reading
Hope Matters More than Ever in Hopeless Times
Amidst the hopelessness of our society we are people of hope, and we need to feed that hope over and over again so we put our hope not in here and now, but in then.
How hope full are you? Be honest with yourself. Do you need to resolve to behold your hope? Do you need to ask someone else from your church to help you feed and fuel your hope? Have you got any dimmer switches at home? You know how they work you can dial down the... Continue Reading
How Hard Is Your Heart?
A rejoicing, prayerful, thankful heart is a soft and humble heart.
At the center of every hard heart is pride. God warns Ezekiel, “But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart” (Ezek. 3:7). Do you laugh off being... Continue Reading
The Before and the After
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
When the world caves in, will you still believe? Will you remember that the gospel is good news because the world is full of bad news? Will you admit that beneath your strength runs a current of weakness that only grace can hold? About two years ago, my mom went in for what they... Continue Reading
The Essence of a Sermon: Preach Christ from the Bible
Introduction to biblical preaching course part 2 of 5.
Christian shepherds must only feed the LORD’s sheep the food that they themselves have received from the Chief Shepherd – the Word of the LORD Jesus Christ himself. All of this is reinforced by one of the most magnificent declarations of what it means to be a Christian teacher in all of the Bible. ... Continue Reading
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