Teachers are forever finding new ways to categorise, summarise, and compartmentalise the many truths that make up the Christian life. But teachers run a great risk. When they are in the mode of rational analysis, they are not experiencing the things they teach.   Humans seem to be able to experience pleasure, or analyse our... Continue Reading

For the Christian, there is never a point of no return. God can restore the lost years eaten by locusts (Joel 2:25). That being said, things won’t magically turn around without concerted effort. Husbands, it starts with you. You are not your wife’s helper. God has not made you to help realize your wife’s vision... Continue Reading

If you are a believer, then the body of Christ needs YOU, and the specific gifts that God has given you. He has equipped you and called you to use your gifts and talents for the benefit of the church. Just like you need the encouragement, prayers, rebukes, etc. of others, they need those very... Continue Reading

“….You have taken hold of my right hand, with Your counsel You will guide me, and afterward receive me to glory” (Psalm 73:23b, 24).   Are you familiar with the story Asaph in Psalm 73? He was about to tell God’s people that being one of His people wasn’t all that special. There were those... Continue Reading

We are serving a God—the one, true God, to be exact—that is completely sovereign over his creation and is exalted about the heavens and the earth. But that same God who is exalted above all things also condescended to us in Jesus Christ to make himself known, to live a perfectly holy life, to die... Continue Reading

Scripture teaches us to persist in prayer, but should we be repetitive? If God hears our prayers the first time, why should we keep coming back to the throne of grace with the same petition?   Jesus calls us to be persistently repetitive in our prayers. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus commands that... Continue Reading

It’s thrilling—and to His glory—that modern forensic pathology can add to our understanding of 2,000-year-old scriptures.   Luke 22:14–23 (ESV) And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell... Continue Reading

“how can I best use my life to honor God?” Or spent time carefully listening to the advice of people who have already lived life and done it well? If “I can’t” paralyzes people, “I can do it all” sends them off pursuing the wrong things and forever wondering if they missed their passion.  ... Continue Reading

When confession is followed by a proclamation of forgiveness in Christ (e.g. Psalm 32:1-2), our sincere thanks will naturally spill over in joyful songs of thanksgiving and praise. What could be better than to live out this rhythm of confession, assurance, and praise, week after week?   Both style and substance are important, but substance... Continue Reading

Elders are not left to figure out where to lead the church and how to get them there.  God makes his wisdom and direction available to us in his word by his Spirit.   In an antiauthoritarian age and with concerns about abuse common, and not without substance, the danger is that we rebel against... Continue Reading