Think about it; the Bible is full of encouragement; it’s full of motivation. Motivation to obey the Lord and be blessed. Motivation to believe the promises of God because they are true. Motivation to go forward and not be afraid because God is with us.   Some people make fun of those who listen to... Continue Reading

Individual souls mattered to Christ, and thus must matter to us. Sure, we can reach the masses. But may it never be at the expense of our private and personal ministries where we truly do admonish and teach each person with all wisdom and with sincere tears, in order to present each person complete in... Continue Reading

As we sojourn in this fallen world, we feel the gravitational pull of glory. Our longing now has to do not only with the depletion caused by weariness and weakness but also a longing for our completion in Him who began a good work in us.  Brethren, pray for us. 1 Thessalonians 5:25, NKJV The... Continue Reading

The cross does not tell us that God no longer cares about sin. It tells us something far better: God cared so much that He judged it in Himself, so that sinners might be forgiven without justice being compromised.   Is God still angry at sin after the cross? Few questions cut closer to the... Continue Reading

In the end, the most surprising thing about the Bible is that it is not simply a book at all. It is the voice of the living God, speaking across centuries, revealing His Son, and accomplishing His purposes. Its unity, clarity, and power show that it is not a human invention but divine revelation. For... Continue Reading

Submission is the theme of this song [Isaiah 53]. Jesus would succeed as the servant by living in total surrender to God. All praise to the Submissive Servant! Jesus’s submission is our salvation. Through him we are taught and sustained, indicted and redeemed.   Allusion-Seeking and Thread-Pulling in Isaiah 50:4–9 The Lord GOD has given... Continue Reading

No one is going to make you. That means tomorrow morning, under no forceful coercion, you have to get out of the bed. You have to refrain from hitting the snooze button. You’ll have to start praying. No one is going to make you, and no one can do it for you.   As the... Continue Reading

“The problem that we need to correct,” say the authors, “is our view of the addict, so that we can minister to them as the Lord Jesus would have us to. We must see the addict as the Lord Jesus sees the addict–as a soul made in the image of God, broken by sin and... Continue Reading

The push for non-judgmentalism and tolerance and reckless acceptance of all things harms us all, and harms cultures and nations as well. Being free of all limits, constraints and boundaries may sound quite liberating, but in the end it simply and inevitably leads to servitude, and finally, to death.   That worldlings can greatly misunderstand... Continue Reading

We embrace our duties, not as shackles of an impersonal Fate, but as the vocations given to us by a loving Father. We stand at our posts not because “Reason” dictates it, but because Christ has placed us there.   In the lexicon of modern Western culture, few words have fallen as far or as... Continue Reading