To Be a Mother Is a Call to Suffer …
Mother's Day
"I Will Build My Church" -- From All Peoples …
Missions Week
Jesus Declares His Kingship …
Palm Sunday
God's Ultimate Purpose: Vessels of Mercy Knowing the Riches of His Glory …
Heaven is where old glories only ripen in memory, and the thrill of new glories breaks upon us every day.
Let Love Be Genuine …
You can be a liberal hypocrite, and you can be fundamentalist hypocrite. But love is not that way.
Lavish Giving, Loving Guests, Living Christ …
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.
How Not to Be a Mule …
Summer Psalms
Sunday Evening Message
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.
Jesus Is the Horn of Salvation …
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.
What Is the Fruit That Befits Repentance? …
Sunday Evening Message
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.
Get Wisdom …
What is wisdom? And what are some biblical instructions for how I can get it?
The Emergence of Sin and Misery …
The essence of the Fall and of our depraved hearts is the desire not to depend on God.
Flesh Tank and Peashooter Regulations …
Legalism is a more dangerous disease than alcoholism because it doesn't look like one.
Listen to the Eyewitness of His Majesty …
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.
The Locust Horde and the Day of the Lord …
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.
When Not to Believe an Angel …
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.
Don't Go Back from Sonship to Slavery …
If Satan can't get you to disobey God's commands, then he'll try to make you obey them with the wrong spirit.
God Seeks People to Worship Him in Spirit and Truth …
Worship must have heart and worship must have head.
Ruth: Strategic Righteousness …
Hopelessness makes us think we need to have illicit pleasures to be happy. But hope gives us a thrilling impulse to do good.
Contend for the Faith …
If the truth is lost, salvation is lost.
The Strong Need Strength …
Unless there is hope of winning there is no motivation to fight. The apostle John motivates the fight with the confidence of victory.
He Who Has the Son Has Life …
Nothing is more important than having eternal life.
Those Whom He Called He Also Justified, Part 2 …
Sunday Evening Message
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.
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart …
It is not enough to clean up our act on the outside. Jesus is concerned about our heart.
Fathers Who Give Hope …
Father's Day
Dads, father your children in a way that shows what kind of father God is.
Sweet "Our" of Prayer …
The Lord's Prayer is an invitation not only to pray but to pray together with other believers.
The Pleasure of God in the Prayers of the Upright …
Prayer is that wonderful transaction where the wealth of God's glory is magnified and the wants of our soul are satisfied.
The Pleasure of God in Obedience …
Obedience to God makes our God-glorifying hope visible and proves that it is real in our lives.
Suffering and the Second Coming …
All affliction is designed to make us worthy of the kingdom of God.
Questions on the Second Coming …
Sunday Evening Message
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.
The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise …
When Jesus comes into the world, he comes as a sun.
He Will Turn the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children …
God has turned his heart toward you in Jesus Christ. Don't push it away.
He Must Reign …
Easter Sunday
The great word of the resurrection is OPEN! Therefore write in capital letters over every closed door in your life, OPEN!
The Danger of Dull Hearing …
Either we press on toward the inheritance or we drift back toward destruction. There is no third option.
The Great Invitation: Break Forth in Song! …
Your happiness is God's reputation. Your peace is God's memorial. And this is an everlasting sign of his love that shall not be cut off.
"Tentmakers" in Minneapolis …
God wants you to see your job primarily in terms of its strategic effect in making him known.
Rescuing Unborn Children: Required and Right …
We have no right to put the unborn in a subhuman class that does not qualify for our rescue. We ought to rescue as many as we can.
The Joyful Purpose of God …
No matter what part of your Christian commitment you focus on, the Bible leads you from that focus to the urgency of evangelism.
I Entrust You to God and to the Word of His Grace …
If the elders care for the flock, who cares for the elders?
At the Price of God's Own Blood …
Can you say say from the bottom of your heart, "Lord, Jesus, there is nothing I want more in my life than what you bled to obtain"?
The Sacrifice of Suffering …
Let your light so shine before lost and needy people outside the camp, not just in the ease and comfort of your church and your home.
Out of Zion, the Perfection of Beauty, God Shines Forth …
If you trust Christ, you are already a permanent citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem.
The Importance of the Kingdom Today …
Since Jesus has come, God exerts his right to rule in new and powerful ways.
Is the Kingdom Present or Future? …
The kingdom of God is present and future. There has been fulfillment, but there has not been consummation.
Explosive Fellowship …
This age is too evil for us to treat fellowship as a kind of comfortable togetherness that has no transforming, empowering, explosive effect.
What Jesus Did After the Beginning …
The book of Acts is not just the acts of the apostles; it is the acts of the risen, living, enthroned Jesus.
Sweeter than Honey, Better than Gold …
In meditation on the Word of God and in following it there is great reward—greater than much fine gold.
These You Ought to Have Done Without Neglecting the Others …
Don't live for comforts, live for justice and compassion.
Spreading Power Through Persecution …
God makes persecution and suffering serve the unstoppable mission of the church.
Simon's Perversion of Signs and Wonders …
There is a "faith" or a "believing" that does not save, even though it rises in the presence of true preaching and true miracles.
The Mouth of the Righteous Is a Fountain of Life …
How does God make your mouth a fountain of life?
The Fullness of Hope and the Fellowship of Love …
The purpose of every small group—whatever else it is—is to keep the love of its members warm.
Enough for Us …
Abundance for Every Good Work
The Bible teaches that God's aim is not for us to be rich in material goods, but rather for us to be rich in good works.
Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
How can Christians serve as the conscience of our culture?
Olympic Spirituality, Part 1 …
Beyond the Gold
The way you run your race and fight your fight will make the difference between sharing in the promises of the gospel or being disqualified.
Olympic Spirituality, Part 2 …
How Then Shall We Run?
Eternal life hangs on the way we run and the way we fight.
You Were Bought with a Price …
Glorify God with Your Bodies
Christianity has to do with everything your body has to do with—food and sex and sleep and talking and playing and working.
Living in the Spirit and in the Body for the Common Good …
Gifts are for the glory of God and the good of the church.
Like a Lamb That Is Led to Slaughter …
We deserved to be slaughtered for our sin, but Jesus was slaughtered instead.
He Shall Be Satisfied with the Fruit of His Travail …
Palm Sunday
It was the will of the Lord to crush him, NOT because of his own sins, but because of our sins.
What Happens When You Die? All Appear Before the Judgment Seat of Christ …
If there is no condemnation for believers, why will they have to be judged?
Preparing for the Discipline of a Vocational Minister …
An Introduction
We lead by example not just when we succeed, but also when we fail.
Christ Died for Our Sins That We Might Die to Sin …
Jesus died for us to make us like him.
The Danger: Perishing …
Perishing means wrath; it means fiery torment; it means separation from God; and it lasts forever.
The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Lavish Benefits …
Palm Sunday
God might have rescued us, sacrificed for us, forgiven us, and not gone any further. But instead he took us into his family.
Paul's Ambition and Bethlehem's Mission …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Challenging the Church and Culture with Truth …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #6
Believing in the supremacy of God leads us to believe in the existence of absolute truth.
Eternal Security Is a Community Project …
It's the cavalier Christians who need to be worried about their standing.
What Jesus Built by Rising from the Dead …
Easter Sunday
The Painful Discipline of Our Heavenly Father …
God is not an ER doctor who only repairs our hurts; he is a master surgeon who plans our hurts in order that he might do us greater good.
The Wrath of God Against Ungodliness and Unrighteousness …
How is the wrath of God being revealed in this present age?
The Agonizing Problem of the Assurance of Salvation …
Often the biggest question isn't "What is true," but "Can the truth save me?"
Walk Worthy of God? …
Can we deserve or earn anything good from God? If not, then what does it mean to be worthy of him?
Bad Title, Great Book …
The Church Is Bigger Than You Think By Patrick Johnstone
How to Be a Refuge for Your Children …
Dads, fear God and put your confidence in him so your children will have a refuge in you.
How to Pray If You Are Dead to the Law and Love to Bear Fruit …
What would a Pharisee pray at his conversion?
Guilt, Grace, and the Global AIDS Crisis …
The fact that any sinner is healthy is Christ’s mercy. Therefore, the fact that some are sick should bring out Christian mercy.
Christ Suffered and Died to Deliver Us from the Present Evil …
Don't follow a defeated foe; follow Christ. You will be an exile in this age, but you will be free.
