“It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God – men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These men mould a generation for God.”  ... Continue Reading

What is Romans about? It’s about a gospel-transformed apostle who wrote to a gospel-created church about the gospel that changes everything. What does this passage mean for us? If the good news of Jesus was central to Paul, the centerpiece of Scripture, and powerful enough to transform Romans living in a godless world two thousand... Continue Reading

The world sees people as objects to be used for the gratification of others. Pornography and sexually explicit content turn nakedness into a commodity to sell with little to no regard for the naked person. Marketers know that “sex sells” so they pursue money, power, and fame by exploiting the nakedness of others. Even immodesty... Continue Reading

Our confidence is that the subduing of the hearts of our covenant offspring will occur along the way, in the context of an intentional full orbed gospel that envelops creation, fall, redemption and consummation (both personal and cosmic). Accordingly, we hold out to our children along life’s way, according to their dynamic (not static) cognitive abilities, a gospel-centric... Continue Reading

Geerhardus Vos is a giant in church history, a man rightly honored as the founder of evangelical Biblical Theology. He taught us that when we read the Bible, we need to acknowledge and account for its “redemptive-historical nature.” Therefore, we should always read the Bible with a sensitivity to the historical progression of God’s redemption... Continue Reading

If you stand before God in your sins, you will stand condemned, and you will suffer the consequences of living in rebellion to the living God.But God in His mercy has provided a way of escape. He has given the way to be saved from your sins. And it is not through peace deals, or... Continue Reading

Numbers has everything. There are journeys and battles, deliverances and judgments, temptations and failures. The book certainly isn’t nonstop action. There are also travel records, ceremony protocols, and special instructions for certain tribes. So where does the title “Numbers” come from? It chiefly comes from two censuses reported in the book.    The book of... Continue Reading

“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

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

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