One Generation Shall Praise Your Works to Another …
Education for Exultation: in the Next Generation
It is the Biblical duty of every generation to make sure that the next generation hears about the mighty acts of God.
God's Pursuit of Racial Diversity At Infinite Cost …
Racial Harmony Sunday
Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of Christ …
How does the promise of Christ's unbreakable love sustain his people when life is hard?
Quest: Joy! Found: Christ! …
Easter Sunday
What is the basic message of the Bible? And what does it mean for me?
Treasuring Christ Together, Part 4 …
What is the Philosophy of Worship That Unites Us?
A Divine and Supernatural Light Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God …
Desiring God 2003 National Conference
A God-Entranced Vision of All Things
When I Am Raised Up, I Will Go Before You To Galilee …
Easter Sunday
He is risen! Trust him today. By his mercy he can forgive your sins. And by his sovereignty he can turn all things for your good.
Treasuring Christ Together: North Campus Expansion, Part 1 …
Begging for the Favor of Blessing Others
We, Though Many, Are One Body in Christ …
Our true individuality is found only in relationship to the body of Christ.
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, Part 2 …
Desiring God 2004 National Conference
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
Use the Inspired Scriptures to Rejoice in Hope …
If we give ourselves daily to the word of God, our hope and joy will be made unshakably strong—even in suffering.
Boiling for Christ …
When it comes to serving Christ, half-heartedness, lukewarmness, laziness, sluggishness, and slothfulness are utterly inappropriate.
Honoring the Biblical Call of Motherhood …
A Tribute to Ruth Piper
Motherhood is the life-on-life transmission of a God-centered, Christ-treasuring worldview.
Each One Should Be Fully Convinced in His Own Mind …
There are a hundred things we can disagree on in which both convictions can be done to the glory of God.
Is There a “Lord’s Day”? …
Setting apart a day of rest testifies to a self-reliant world that our work does not save or define us, Christ does.
The Wisdom We Speak …
The remedy for the darkness of man's mind is not mindlessness but light.
Delighting in the Law of God …
Summer Psalms
Sunday Evening Message
The Liberating Law of the Spirit of Life …
The death of Christ does not turn away the wrath of God from all people. In order to benefit from the work that God has done outside of us, we must now experience the work that he does within us by the Holy Spirit. What is this work and how is it related to the gift of justification?
Sky Talk …
Summer Psalms
Sunday Evening Message
What are some practical steps that we can take to stay alive to the beauty of God's world?
The Virgin Birth of the Son of God …
Sunday Evening Message
You may have never heard of Nazareth, and this young girl may be poor and obscure, but don't judge by merely human outward appearances. Her son is going to be great.
All the Prophets Proclaimed These Days …
Since the first Christmas we have been living in the last days.
Sex and the Single Person …
God's Word is every Christian's infallible guide to maximum sexual fulfillment.
The Power of Hope …
Easter Sunday
If we are going to love like Jesus loved, even in times of great stress and worry, then we must be filled with living hope.
Is There Good Anxiety? …
Bethel College Chapel
Twin Cities, MN
Worship Is an End in Itself …
Only worship is an end in itself. Only worship should not be done as a means to achieving something other than itself.
Alone in a Big Church …
A Call to Small Togetherness
God designs human support to sustain his children's faith and to lighten the burdens they bear in the service of love.
I Will Raise Up for David a Righteous Branch …
The promise will be fulfilled in spite of all judgment.
Christmas as the End of History …
Celebration of Christmas
Christmas marks the arrival of the end of history, which will soon be consummated by Christ's second appearing.
Believe in Your Heart that God Raised Jesus from the Dead …
Easter Sunday
Faith never says, "The righteousness that leads to life is inaccessible." But faith recognizes its own helplessness and gladly accepts this righteousness as a gift from God.
You Shall Go Forth Leaping Like Calves …
Christ came at Christmas to build a bridge across the chasm of sin to eternal life, but the name of the bridge is purity. The only way to eternal life is along the path of sanctification.
Christ Redeemed Us from the Curse of the Law …
When Christ experienced the curse of the law on the cross it was not his own but ours.
Why God Wills Work …
There are at least four reasons for why God has given work to mankind.
The Bible: Kindling for Christian Hedonism …
When Satan huffs and puffs and tries to blow out the flame of your joy, you have an endless supply of kindling in the Word of God.
A Precious Promise: The Outpouring of God's Spirit …
If you long for the touch of God's Spirit on your life, give yourself daily to the reading of his Word.
The Lord Whose Name Is Jealous …
God responds with terrible wrath against those whose hearts should belong to him but go after other things.
Eternal Life Has Appeared in Christ …
When God becomes a man, he strips away every pretense of man to be God.
Test the Spirits to See Whether They Are of God …
Hearing the gospel with openness and confessing Christ with loyalty is the work and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Those Whom He Predestined He Also Called, Part 2 …
Sunday Evening Message
The doctrines of sovereign grace are not overthrown by problems in Scripture. They stand firm and are the precious foundation of our deepest hopes.
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness …
The hunger of your life that cannot be satisfied by anything in this world is the constant beckoning of God to remember that you were made for him.
Revival and Fasting …
Bethlehem Day of Prayer
Twin Cities, MN
Preparing to Receive Christ: Looking for the Consolation of Israel …
God prepares a person to receive Christ by stirring up a longing for consolation and redemption that can come only from Christ.
The Pleasure of God in Those Who Hope in His Love …
God delights in those responses which mirror his magnificence.
Barnabas: The Weakness of a Great Leader …
Every strength is vulnerable to its corresponding weakness. Therefore we need each other's different strengths
I Will Spare Them as a Man Spares His Son …
God will spare sinful sons, precisely because he did not spare his only sinless Son.
He Who Sows Bountifully Will Reap Bountifully …
God is the Giver, not Taker, on both sides of our giving.
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.
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.
I Entrust You to God and to the Word of His Grace …
If the elders care for the flock, who cares for the elders?
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.
The Importance of the Kingdom Today …
Since Jesus has come, God exerts his right to rule in new and powerful ways.
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.
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.
Spreading Power Through Persecution …
God makes persecution and suffering serve the unstoppable mission of the church.
The Mouth of the Righteous Is a Fountain of Life …
How does God make your mouth a fountain of life?
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.
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.
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.
Like a Lamb That Is Led to Slaughter …
We deserved to be slaughtered for our sin, but Jesus was slaughtered instead.
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.
How Christ Enables the Church to Upbuild Itself in Love …
The New Testament gives no hint that worship services and classes are the sum total of what church was supposed to be.
Racial Reconciliation …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #3
Racial Harmony Sunday
Let us be the salt and the light of our hostile and fearful society with courageous acts of inter-racial kindness and respect.
Do Not Harden Your Heart in the Day of Trouble …
The surety of believers lies not in the absence of conditions but in the promises of power.
From Thy Hand We Have Given Thee …
Celebration of Freeing the Future: Being Debt Free as a Church
Let Us Draw Near to God …
Palm Sunday
Drawing near to God is the heart of the gospel, and we are called to embrace it with informed zeal.
Running with the Witnesses …
Be encouraged by the thousands of saints who have finished the race and testify, "It can be done! By faith it can be done."
Magnifying God with Money …
How can money be used to worship God?
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.
