The Isaac Factor …
Education for Exultation: Beyond the Possible
Why does God make us depend on him for what is humanly impossible?
Why does God make us depend on him for what is humanly impossible?
What are the essential distinctions between true Christians and non-Christians?
The law teaches two things about obtaining salvation.
Jesus Christ is building his church around the world with missionaries.
Of all the things Paul could have chosen as the foundation of your life in Christ, he picks the mercies of God. Why?
If we are true Christians we will want to show mercy to suffering people.
Motherhood is the life-on-life transmission of a God-centered, Christ-treasuring worldview.
Setting apart a day of rest testifies to a self-reliant world that our work does not save or define us, Christ does.
What is God's goal in creating and governing the world? How can I bring my life into alignment with that goal?
What are some practical steps that we can take to stay alive to the beauty of God's world?
Since the first Christmas we have been living in the last days.
God designs human support to sustain his children's faith and to lighten the burdens they bear in the service of love.
You can't cleave to Christ with white-hot devotion if you don't remember and feel what your plight would be without him.
What counts in the new people is not who your parents are but whom you live for; and therefore a new symbol for the new covenant people is given, baptism.
If God undertakes to work for us, he cannot fail. He will succeed in providing all the services we need.
The essence of lukewarmness is the statement, "I need nothing." The lukewarm are spiritually self-satisfied.
If we don't understand why the law was given, we can kill ourselves with it.
Satan might do anything to prevent you from suffering.
I urge you. Humble yourselves. Grow up. Become a godly man.
In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches that the first priority in praying is to ask that our heavenly Father's name be hallowed.
We must walk in the light if we are to go on experiencing the cleansing of Jesus. And if we sin, we do indeed have an advocate with the Father.
Six questions to see if you have genuine faith in Christ and love for others.
It is faith alone which justifies, but that the faith which justifies never stays alone. It is living and active and bears fruit in obedience.
It is not enough to clean up our act on the outside. Jesus is concerned about our heart.
Dads, father your children in a way that shows what kind of father God is.
The Lord's Prayer is an invitation not only to pray but to pray together with other believers.
Obedience to God makes our God-glorifying hope visible and proves that it is real in our lives.
Let us hold fast that Christ is coming and that all the world will be his someday and we will reign with him forever and ever.
God has turned his heart toward you in Jesus Christ. Don't push it away.
Either we press on toward the inheritance or we drift back toward destruction. There is no third option.
Fight against sin by fighting against unbelief in the promises of God.
In sharing the truth of Christianity, Truth #1 is that God created us for HIS glory. Truth #2 is that this is, therefore, the duty of every man and woman and child—to live for the glory of God. And the wonderful thing is that this duty is not a burden. It is freedom and joy.
God created you male or female that you might be utterly and radically and uniquely devoted to the Lord.
Be thankful, pay your vows, call for help. And when God delivers you from the day of trouble, glorify him with all your heart.
The kingdom has come and it has overcome the aimlessness and futility of our lives and given us an awesome reason to live.
In order to be effective instruments of Jesus' life in the world, you need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.
We are saved only by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus. It's the kind of truth that either makes converts or makes enemies.
Luke expects the receiving of the Holy Spirit to be a real, identifiable experience, not just a logical inference from a human act of will.
All God's plans for history from beginning to end have this one goal—WORSHIP GOD!
Serving and loving and helping and encouraging and supporting the saints is the way we show our love for the name of God.
God has a purpose for every obstacle and every frustration and every pain and every affliction that comes into our lives.
If we say we are useless, we not only say no to the idea of the body, but worse, we say no to God. We don't trust him.
The story of Easter doesn't end with a mangled shepherd lying dead among three dead wolves.
We need each other if we are going to escape the drunkening effects of the world and live as sober aliens.
Are the sacrifices we offer spiritual sacrifices?
Those married to unbelieving husbands should be like the holy women of old and hope in God. In fact, we all should.
Believe on Jesus and you shall not perish but have eternal life.
How does Christ's love for us turn into our love for others?
We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
Everyone we lead to Christ is a fulfillment of the promise, "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply."
The message of our great salvation has been confirmed by a cluster of reliable witnesses.
There is a rest open to you today. The door is not shut. The time is not past.
Five reasons for why Jesus' priesthood is superior to all others.
Consider others—study them, know them, figure them out—to the end that you stimulate them to love and good deeds.
Knowing that God's discipline is for our good helps us press on in faith.
Boasting matters to Paul because it is the outward form of the inward moral corruption that lies behind all the evils and miseries of the world.
The stakes of a president's moral life are high for the whole nation.
Should the sins of others keep us captive in a prison of sorrow?
Find hope in the history of God's grace to help you live your life for his glory.
Sometimes Christians have no favor in society. Even so, God can, and often does, pour out his power for effective witness.
Seven things about your money to think and pray over.
Some memorable and meaningful ways to talk to God at the kitchen table.
All the elect in Christ prevail: God's purpose stands and cannot fail.
The next best thing to having a church without conflict is having one that knows how to resolve it in a Christ-exalting way.
It is impossible to mistreat someone because of their race if you are as broken before God and dependent on his mercy as you should be.
A poem from 18 years ago celebrating God's goodness in marriage.