This is the life you were saved for. “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7). Put on love. Not once, but daily. Not perfectly, but persistently. And watch as the Holy Spirit binds your life together in... Continue Reading

The New Earth will be a physical, tangible place where believers will dwell after the final resurrection. The New Heavens and New Earth will together constitute the New Universe, which will be the eternal Heaven, a permanent renewal and restoration of God’s original creation, forever free from sin and suffering.   A thoughtful reader asked... Continue Reading

Your soul needs a new language. Break the agreement with false definitions of faithfulness and step into truth. This is not about defiance. It’s about allegiance to a superior reality.   It happened again. The request didn’t come as a question. Rather, it arrived pre-decided. My time was volunteered for me, handed over by someone... Continue Reading

Every moment of every day is significant. The world is more than the sum of its parts. Let every day strike you with child-like wonder, for the creation is a wonder, and the Creator is the Wonder of wonders.    Miracles and Mundanity What do the Northern Lights, ants, and the miracle of birth have... Continue Reading

God has created human government to be a blessing for his people; and as long as this government is under God, it will be and should be supported. Rather than “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” the scriptural view is that government is “over the people, under God, for his glory,... Continue Reading

We can’t afford for us to see each other’s lives as a George Müller biography where only great faith gets highlighted. We need to see the brokenness and contrition too. Our churches need to be full of confession and repentance.   Have you read a really great biography? I love biographies, especially ones that highlight... Continue Reading

Every day, Christian men and women forfeit future happiness for the sake of temporary sexual stimulation. Like drug addicts, we go from fix to fix, trading the con­tentment of righteous living for the quick hits that always leave us empty, craving more.   The following is an excerpt from my book The Purity Principle. I’m... Continue Reading

If devotion to the nation-state is indeed idolatrous then in reality there is no such thing as Christian nationalism. The term itself would be rendered oxymoronic. You can be a faithful Christian, or you can be a faithful nationalist, but it’s difficult to see how one can claim to be both. Christians should abandon both... Continue Reading

The Preacher makes realists of us, but he does not leave us there. He gives us hope. He lifts our eyes to God the Father, who points us to His Son, Jesus Christ.   Introducing Ecclesiastes (4 of 5) In Ecclesiastes the Preacher presents us with the same counsel that God does in the book... Continue Reading

Christ has done what the law could not do. He has carried the burden we could not bear. The church stands or falls on this truth. Christ saves fully. Christ keeps completely. Nothing more is required.   There is a subtle temptation to believe that something must be added to grace to make faith complete.... Continue Reading