I Will Meditate on All Your Work and Muse on Your Deeds …
Moment by moment, our vital union with Christ is sustained, shaped, and carried by the Word of God.
Moment by moment, our vital union with Christ is sustained, shaped, and carried by the Word of God.
How can our hope be steady on days like 9-11?
How does the Holy Spirit pray for us?
Three things that love for God is not.
The people of Christ should not be known primarily for what we don’t do, but for what we do do.
No one's obstinance can stop them from being saved, because God can remove the hardness.
What does Scripture say about the Promised Land and Israel's rights to it today?
What is the balance between being in the world and yet not of the world?
What is wrong with homosexual marriage? Is it possible to believe this and still love homosexual people?
Millions of abortions are the outworking of racism and sexism. Let us find another way to freedom and equality than killing the babies.
Christ’s promise to meet all of our needs is what frees us from fear and greed and enables us to joyfully share with others.
What is Bethlehem's strategy for spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things to all the world?
God gets glory not from our heroic exertion but from our reliance upon his strength—when we serve as one who serves with the strength which God supplies.
Don't be like the mule but run headlong to God in prayer while he may be found. For the contrite heart which prays will be forgiven and protected and taught the way to God and will be glad in the Lord forever.
Baptism gives expression to our faith that we are God's from head to toe.
God is about to change the course of all human history; the most important three decades in all of time are about to begin. And where is God? Occupying himself with two obscure, humble women—one old and barren, one young and virginal.
There is a deadly disease and an awesome enemy. And every one of us will die from this disease and be devoured by that enemy if there is no horn of salvation for us.
You can tell where a man's heart is resting by the way he handles his money and by the attitude he has toward his possessions.
What does it mean to "fear the Lord"? And why is it so important that we praise a woman who fears the Lord?
What is wisdom? And what are some biblical instructions for how I can get it?
Total abstinence may be the best way to treat alcohol today, but it should not be a requirement for church membership.
The essence of the Fall and of our depraved hearts is the desire not to depend on God.
Your power to give a compassionate witness about Jesus is in direct proportion to how precious Jesus is to you.
Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn't look like one.
If the knowledge of God's glorious promises does not spur us on to strive against the tide, then we will be barren and fruitless and drift to our destruction.
The difference between mythical speculations and Christian faith is history. Our doctrines are not the result of clever head-work. They are the result of historical observation.
God will fight against us and clog the joy of our lives until we return with our whole heart to him. For his purpose is to be God alone in the midst of his people.
The freest people in the world are those who submit most fully to the authority of Christ in Scripture.
There is one, and only one, gospel. It is therefore astonishing--and tragic--to turn away from it and lose both God and his grace.
When you entrust yourself to Christ you honor him, and he would be denying himself to turn you away.
The human heart hates the truth that creation teaches because it is too humbling.
None of us knows when our toying with sin will pass over into irrevocable hardness of heart. Very few people feel how serious sin is.
God will reward Ruth because she has sought refuge under his wings.
The ultimate goal of the church is to reflect and display the glory and worth of God. Missions is a means, not an end.
Hate is the evidence of blindness to the light of God. Love is the evidence that sight has been given to the blind.
Faith says to every temptation of the world: NO, BE GONE! I know where true satisfaction is to be found.
To the degree that you believe what Jesus sees in heaven, to that degree you will be able to rejoice and be glad in suffering.
God has ordained that we be related to other believers in such a way that we can help each other fight the fight of faith successfully day in and day out until the end.
Fight the social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany and imagine what is really happening behind clinic doors.
God's joy, his desire, his want and wish and hope and pleasure and gladness and delight is to give the kingdom to his flock.
When circumstances arise that alarm you, the key is to hold fast to the traditions that were taught by the apostles.
The prerequisite for divine guidance is not a quest for messages, but a quest for holiness.
One of the ways God causes us to persevere in faith and be saved is by warning us that we could make shipwreck of our faith and be lost.
The death of Jesus Christ is the only way that any of us can escape the righteous wrath of God and find peace with God.
Zeal for the glory of the Lord is zeal for the glory of his mercy or it isn't missionary zeal—and it isn't holy zeal.
The purpose of the Holy Spirit is invincible and he has an unwavering zeal for the glory of the God-man, Jesus.
For people who desire the salvation of sinners, the magnifying of God's glory, and the vindication of Jesus' name, this is the way to pray.
The test of the authenticity our worship on Sunday is whether we are a radically Christ-like people on Monday.
Children prove whether you are truly great or not—whether you live to serve or live to be praised.
The suffering love of Christ for sinners is seen in the suffering love of his people for sinners.
The Bible's picture of our Savior too radical that it should be the mere creation of sinful men.
The wicked flee for fear of the retribution that their wrongs deserve, but the righteous--those cleared of wrongdoing through Christ--stand boldly.
Our security is not in making heaven unconditional. Our security is in God's infallible commitment to fulfill the conditions of heaven.
You will not be asked to live tomorrow on today's strength. The mercy to carry you through this hour is given in this hour.
The course of history has been changed again and again through the fasting of God's people.
Loving God sustains us through all the joy and pain and perplexity and uncertainty of what loving our neighbor should be.
Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the form of love that people can see.
Until the wrath of God figures as largely in our worldview as it did for Paul, we will not have the passion for evangelism that he had.
Because we have a great High Priest, the throne of God is a throne of grace.
The promises of God are the key to love and victory over sin. But we need people in our lives to "encourage us day after day" with those promises.
It is by prayer that our eyes will be opened to see wonder in God's Word and be changed.
God is one, and everyone he justifies is justified in the same way. Therefore he is God not only over the Jews but over all peoples.
Whatever else you do or say or feel, of this you can be certain: God wills that you rejoice in the hope of seeing his glory.
If God grants faith, why wouldn't he give every believer the same amount?
Surely God means for our minutes on earth to count for something.
The experience of God's love is the Spirit giving unspeakable joy in response to the mind's perception of Jesus Christ.
How are we to understand those psalms that express hatred and call down curses upon the enemies of God?
We never move beyond the need for grace, so let us trust God to do great things with our little faith.
Knowing God's purpose for prayer deepens our commitment to pray and helps us glorify God for why he does what he does.
Anger is often a worse enemy than lust in marriage. What can you do to keep it from ruining yours?
The almighty mercy of God is able to break into any life and immediately change the desires of their heart.
Every deadly calamity is a merciful call from God for the living to repent.
Something is deeply amiss in the soul that does not descend to love a child.