This world is uncertain, and the mode of leaving it is also hidden from us. We can rejoice, though, that our Savior Jesus Christ has in his resurrection defeated death and hell and thereby secured a place for us in heaven with him forever. He will welcome us into his loving arms the moment our... Continue Reading

Don’t remove yourself from the world—we aren’t called to bunker down, lock out the world, and wait for our “beam me up, Jesus” moment. Pray, study, research, and learn as much as you can about the culture God has placed you in. It’s not by accident that you are drawing breath in a certain corner... Continue Reading

Do you wish you could control your child’s experience in the world and guarantee the outcome? Zoom out: that’s not on you. Sometimes it sounds trite to say God is sovereign, but not so here. Here it makes all the difference to a concerned parent. You are freed to steward your household without assuming the... Continue Reading

We are saved by God, from God, for God. That is the full irony of the drama of salvation. Finally, we read of God’s promise of a new heaven and a new earth, the promise of a new Jerusalem that will descend from heaven itself. This is the capstone of the revelation that John received while... Continue Reading

Union with Christ is such a glorious reality that it should transform every moment of our day. There is never a moment when we are alone. He is with us when the day ahead of us is more than we can handle. When we turn off the TV at the end of the day, and the silence of... Continue Reading

Because Jesus willingly humbled himself, made himself lower than the angels in his incarnation, he suffered unto death on the cross securing for us the grace of God. Jesus even tasted death just as we will. He is now at God’s right hand, having been given that glory which is rightfully his. No doubt, things... Continue Reading

The table of the Lord has a cherished place in the church because it bears his name — it’s the Lord’s Table. As King and Head of the Church he determines who may come and in what manner they may come. In a way that is fitting to the nature and received benefits of the... Continue Reading

To reject Jesus is not terminal, but to reject the Spirit’s testimony to him is. Sins of ignorance are pardonable. The case of Paul, blasphemer, persecutor, and apostle proves this (1 Tim. 1:12–17; Acts 8:1–3; 9:1–4). This implies that blasphemy against the Spirit must be a deliberate act. Hebrews 6:4–6 and 1 John 2:18–24 suggest it is a sober, measured... Continue Reading

In deep compassion, the Father puts all our tears in his bottle. He does it for Jesus’s sake, the one He sent as a man of sorrows into this groaning world. While He was here, Jesus wept, mourning death, brokenness, and sin, and then conquering them by his cross. Now in Jesus’s name, God hears... Continue Reading

The couples who endure with joy are most often the couples who embrace one another as a complex bundle of strengths and weaknesses, helps and hurts, joys and sorrows, and who set their expectations for marriage accordingly. They are each more concerned with their own holiness than their spouse’s, each quicker to embrace an opportunity... Continue Reading