God at Work in Every Womb …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
What Does It Mean to Fulfill the Law in Romans 8:3-4 …
Twelve Theses
Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom, Past and Future …
Palm Sunday
The Present Effects of Trembling at the Wrath of God …
Believing that God is furious against sin produces a good fear that transforms everything in life.
Do Not Destroy the Work of God …
Faith is what really matters in Christian behavior, not just whether you accomplish certain things or abstain from others.
How to Argue with God …
Summer Psalms
Sunday Evening Message
Don't let your sinfulness hinder your prayers. Run into the arms of God and fill his ear with arguments that aim for His honor.
Who Should We Invite to Thanksgiving Dinner? …
Who you invite to share in your abundance shows where your treasure is.
What Do Answers to Prayer Depend On?, Part 1 …
Obedience
If we are unloving and unrepentant then we should not think that God is likely to answer our prayers.
The Cosmic Church …
The church is the cosmic showcase of God's mercy, but he gets cosmic reproach when we fail to receive his mercy with joy.
Even the Hairs of My Head Are All Numbered …
Reflections on My First Year in the Pastorate
Do not fear the work God calls you to. He loves you deeply, knows you fully, and will turn all for your good.
Why the Law Was Given …
The law is a description of the obedience of faith; it is not a job description for how to earn the wages of God's blessings.
Jesus Is Precious Because Through Him We Become Authentic …
We don't have a deep sense of peace and fulfillment when we have successfully deluded everybody about who we really are or what we really feel or think. There is a deep (and I believe God-given) longing to be authentic, not to be hypocrites.
Grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of Our Lord …
The best fertilizer for our hope and godliness is the knowledge of our future in God's grace.
Go and Make Disciples, Baptizing Them... …
When we make disciples, we bid people to come and die to their old, destructive ways and to live for Jesus, who loved them and gave himself for them.
Those Who Have Faith Are the Sons of Abraham …
The central concern of your life is to ensure that you are a child of Abraham.
The War Within: Flesh Vs. Spirit …
A Christian is not a person who experiences no bad desires. A Christian is a person who is at war with those desires by the power of the Spirit.
Money: Currency for Christian Hedonism …
What you do with it—or desire to do with it—can make or break your happiness forever.
Holy, Holy, Holy Is the Lord of Hosts …
Revival happens when we see God majestic in holiness, and when we see ourselves disobedient dust.
Tell How Much the Lord Has Done for You! …
Strategies and actions to seek and save the lost must have high priority in the life of our church.
How the Spirit Sanctifies …
Sanctification is obeying the Commander-in-Chief. Sanctification is a wartime word.
I Will Be Gracious to Whom I Will Be Gracious …
When I choose God, it is because he has first chosen me. My will is not sovereign and self-determining. God's is.
The Son of God Appeared to Destroy the Works of the Devil …
The reason there is a Christmas is because God aims to destroy something.
Job: Wrestling with Suffering …
Why did God prolong Job's suffering? Didn't his initial reaction prove his faith?
You Shall Worship the Lord Your God …
Worshiping God is the number one duty of every human being.
Why We Need a Savior: Captive to an Alien Power, by Nature Children of Wrath …
We were dead to God, enslaved to Satan, and were rightfully under the wrath of God. There was only one hope, and it was not in ourselves.
Why Hope? Grace! …
From beginning to end our salvation—our election, our calling, our faith, our sanctification, and our glorification—is a work of divine grace.
The Fruit of Hope: Boldness …
A great hope produces great boldness.
Make Your Mouth a Means of Grace …
Four kinds of rotten language, and a whole new way to think about words.
The Pleasure of God in His Creation …
God rejoices in his works because his works are an expression of his glory.
Risk and the Cause of God: Today …
It is the will of the Lord that we take risks for the cause of God.
The Greatness of God's Electing Love …
Have you learned the love of God in a way that makes you tremble?
Christian Unity and the Cross …
The cross undermines the deepest basis of disunity and lays a new foundation for unity.
Christ's Purpose in Evangelism …
God wants people who welcome his strategic interruptions and surprises.
How Can We Be Clothed with Power? …
Missions Week
God gives special power, extraordinary power, for the extraordinary challenges of an expanding witness to Christ. How do we seek it?
His Dominion Shall Be from Sea to Sea …
Palm Sunday
Jesus has laid down his life so that he might make you a genuine offer of reconciliation.
Husbands Who Love Like Christ and the Wives Who Submit to Them …
Sin didn't create headship and submission; it ruined them, distorted them, and made them ugly and destructive.
Jesus Is the Ruler of Kings on Earth …
Jesus Christ is alive and reigning over all the kings of the earth, and all the events of the world.
When Will Prophecy Cease? …
The spiritual gift of prophecy has not passed away, but is meant for the good of the church until Jesus comes.
I Will Pour Out My Spirit …
We live between the beginning of the kingdom of God and the consummation of the kingdom. What is that like?
The Price and the Preciousness of Spiritual Power …
The preciousness of spiritual power is that it is finally in God's control, not ours.
Who Are the Elders? …
Then and Now
Congregational authority and strong leadership under that authority are not incompatible. They are biblical, and they are vital.
What God Has Cleansed Do Not Call Common …
Missions Week
Cornelius would not have been saved if no one had taken him the gospel. And no one will be saved today without the gospel.
God Vindicated His Righteousness in the Death of Christ …
God put sent Christ to die in order to demonstrate his righteousness.
His Body: The Fullness of Him Who Fills All in All …
God means to fill the universe with the glory of his Son by putting the church on display as the embodiment of his Son.
Ask Whatever You Wish …
God designed prayer to give his disciples the joy of bearing fruit while God himself gets the glory.
The Noble Army of the Martyrs Praise Thee …
There is a number of martyrs appointed by God which must be fulfilled before the consummation comes.
True Christianity: Inexpressible Joy in the Invisible Christ …
You love Jesus and trust him and rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory. This is true Christianity.
But Christ Has Been Raised, You Are Not Still In Your Sins …
Easter Sunday
If we are saved by Christ's death, what does his resurrection add?
Strengthened to Suffer: Christ, Noah, and Baptism …
The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. Let's follow him.
Fasting for the Safety of the Little Ones …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Perhaps the Christian church has not used all the spiritual resources available to us in the effort to overcome darkness.
Love One Another with Tender Affection …
God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.
Sustained by All His Grace …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.
Vision for the Harvest: 2000 by 2000 …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.
I Have Other Sheep …
The sovereignty of God over the wills of men doesn't make evangelism unnecessary; it makes it hopeful.
Getting Right with God and Each Other …
Human reconciliation is much harder than financial donation.
Who Rules the World to Come? …
The second Adam, Jesus Christ, defeated death and restored the hope of Psalm 8 for all who are in him.
For Whom Did Jesus Taste Death? …
Christ tasted death for everyone who has faith. Because the faith of everyone who believes was purchased by the death of Christ.
By This Time You Ought to Be Teachers …
Do you have the disease of "dullness of hearing," and if so, how can you get well?
Let Us Press On to Maturity …
The writer of Hebrews calls you to grow and press on to maturity. And you will—if God permits.
Purified to Serve the Living God …
How can people destroyed by their sin draw near to a perfect God?
Let Us Go with Jesus Bearing Reproach …
Christians have a hope that frees them to move toward need, not comfort.
Obey Your Joyful Leaders, Part 1 …
Spiritual leaders are to keep watch of the word, of Christ, of themselves, and of their people.
The Other Dark Exchange: Homosexuality, Part 1 …
God means for the beauty of worship to be dramatized in the right ordering of our sexual lives.
How to Pray for the Soul—Yours or Another's …
How you pray is based on what you believe God can do.
Here are 7 things to ask God to do for your soul and others'.
Christian Courage …
Are you willing to say and do the right thing regardless of the earthly cost?
Endings Are for Gratitude, Beginnings Are for Faith …
Every moment is an opportunity for gratitude toward the past and faith toward the future.
It Is Sown in Dishonor, It Is Raised in Glory …
Let us learn how to help each other die. It will not be easy, but, by grace, we will help each other say in our final pain, "To die is gain."
Planting a Passion for the Supremacy of God in All Things …
A Call to Focused Prayer, Soul Searching, and a Church-Wide Dream
Are there enough churches in America? The answer is no.
Love Her More and Love Her Less …
The greatest gift you give your wife is loving God above her life.
Why Satan Is Left on Earth …
Incentives in the Battle for Joy in Jesus
God's plan to glorify himself involves defeating Satan in stages.
A Taste of Mueller and His God …
George Mueller's life is a testimony to the surpassing power that belongs to God and not to us.
Interracial Marriage: Celebrating and Serving Diversity in Christ …
In Christ ethnic differences are not barriers. Rather, they are blessings that visibly express the glory of the gospel.
When Unclothed Is Unfitting …
Thoughts on Selling with Sex
There are at least nine reasons--even from a secular perspective--for why sexually-explicit advertising is socially irresponsible.
Answers to Objections to Going into Missions …
What I Said at Missions in the Main Hall
Consider these 8 potential excuses for why a person can't do missions and what the Bible has to say about them.
Called …
A poem to remind us that, "None of us would live at all but by the Lord's triumphant call."
Is abortion a form of discrimination? …
John Piper talks about the connection between abortion and racism.
