Songs That Shape the Heart and Mind …
Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God, Part 1
The combination of instruction with emotion in the Psalms.
Spiritual Depression in the Psalms …
Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God, Part 2
Learn from the Psalmist how to fight for hope.
A Broken and Contrite Heart God Will Not Despise …
Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God, Part 3
Psalm 51 teaches us what it's like to be crushed with guilt well.
Bless the Lord, O My Soul …
Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God, Part 4
Perhaps nothing is more effective in helping children fear God than verbally blessing the Lord in their presence.
Pour Out Your Indignation Upon Them …
Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God, Part 5
How are we to understand the psalms that call down curses on others?
Declare His Glory Among the Nations …
Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God, Part 6
God summons us to sing, and in doing so to summon the nations to sing a new song with us.
How Important Is Church Membership? …
All believers should join a church if possible, because the local church is an expression of the universal church.
What Is Baptism, and How Important Is It? …
The drama of baptism gets its meaning from the gospel.
The Mind of Christ: Looking Out for the Interests of Others …
4 examples from Philippians 2 of people who put others' interests before their own.
The New Commandment of Christ: Love One Another As I Have Loved You …
What's new about Jesus' new commandment?
In the Beginning Was the Word …
When we come to know Jesus in John's Gospel, we come to know God.
In Him Was Life …
Not only is Jesus the Life that created all material life, but he is the Life that creates all eternal life.
John Was Not the Light, but a Witness to the Light …
Let's join John the Baptist in saying, “Jesus must increase, but I must decrease.”
Proclaiming the Excellencies of Christ, Not Prosperity, Among the Nations …
All nations will be reached only with the wealth-renouncing witness of cross-cultural missionaries.
We Beheld His Glory, Full of Grace and Truth …
By becoming a man, Jesus shows us the glory of God.
From His Fullness We Have All Received, Grace Upon Grace …
Those who by grace are born of God have seen the glory of God that Moses asked to see but wasn't permitted.
Behold the Lamb of God …
Those who embrace Jesus as their Lamb and their Lord will be sheltered from God's otherwise inescapable wrath.
This Is He Who Baptizes with the Holy Spirit …
Baptism by the Holy Spirit is mainly about Jesus, not the Holy Spirit.
We Have Found the Messiah …
7 ways John shows us the glory of Jesus.
Son of God, Son of Man, King of Israel …
What do Jesus' titles in the first chapter of John say about him?
Obedient Son, Ultimate Purifier, All-Providing Bridegroom …
3 of Christ's glories on display in John 2.
Destroy This Temple, and in Three Days I Will Raise It Up …
Jesus is the new temple. Authentic worship is no longer attached to any place. It is attached to Jesus.
Put in the Fire for the Sake of Prayer …
God can put his people through the fires of suffering to awaken their appetite for prayer.
If My Words Abide in You …
More than just memorizing Scripture, Jesus' words abiding in us means they take root in us and bear fruit.
He Knew What Was In Man …
Jesus knows everything about everyone and is still willing to love those who trust in him.
The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy …
How the Bible looks at a human being in the womb.
What Is the Recession For? …
Some of God's Purposes
5 of God's purposes in an economic downturn.
The Son of Man Must Be Lifted Up—Like the Serpent …
What does Jesus mean by comparing himself to the bronze snake Moses raised in Numbers 21?
I Have Seen the Lord …
Easter Sunday
Twenty centuries later, we can still see the truth of the Resurrection.
The Free Will of the Wind …
The Wind of God's Spirit gives new birth to whoever he pleases.
God So Loved the World, Part 1 …
In John 3:16, seven of the greatest realities in existence are packed into one sentence.
God So Loved the World, Part 2 …
John 3:16 represents a glorious love, but there is more to God's love than the free offer of the gospel.
This Is the Judgment: Light Has Come into the World …
Jesus didn't come to a neutral world. He came to those already dead and guilty to make some alive and free.
He Must Increase, I Must Decrease …
John the Baptist models how we ought to respond to the exaltation of Jesus.
The Father Has Given All Things into Jesus’s Hands …
The Gospel of John lifts Jesus up as coming from God, being full of God, and speaking and ruling as God.
Sustained By Sovereign Grace: How to Endure to the End …
Treasuring Christ Church
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God ordains our darkness and keeps us through it.
You Will Never Be Thirsty Again …
The woman-at-the-well account reveals woeful truth about us and wonderful truth about Jesus.
The Tragic Cost of Her Cavernous Thirst …
We are blind to Jesus' living water, but he'll expose this sin in us and then save us from it.
Not in This or That Mount, but in Spirit and Truth …
Only those who know Jesus have the Spirit and know the truth that makes real worship possible.
The Food of Christ Is to Give Eternal Life …
The natural timeframe of sowing and reaping does not pertain to Jesus and his saving power.
Go, Your Son Will Live …
What do Jesus' miracles say about Jesus?
Healed for the Sake of Holiness …
Miracles should motivate us to look past the miracle to Jesus and move away from sin.
Jesus: Equal With God …
John 5:1-24 has at least 3 extraordinary things to teach us about Jesus.
The Life-Giving Voice of the Son of God …
At least six observations about the final judgment can be made from John 5:25-29.
The Love of Human Praise as the Root of Unbelief …
What does Jesus see as the underlying problem when he indicts unbelievers?
If You Believed Moses, You Would Believe Me, for He Wrote of Me …
Wherever God is revealed in the Old Testament, Jesus is revealed.
The Legacy of Antioch …
Partnering with the Church of the Global South for the Sake of the Gospel
How to partner with the churches of the Global South for the sake of the Gospel.
The All-Providing King Who Would Not Be King …
Look beyond the bread God provides to the Bread of Life.
Twelve Baskets of Bread and the Walk on Water …
Jesus’ presence brings the kind of fullness that produces generosity and risk-taking in his church.
Do Not Labor for the Food That Perishes …
When Jesus is our highest Treasure something about everything changes.
Behold, Believe, Be Raised …
Jesus and all that God is for us in him is what we hunger and thirst for, and saving faith is being satisfied in him.
Skeptical Grumbling and Sovereign Grace …
What does it mean that no one can come to Jesus unless the father draws them?
They Will All Be Taught of God …
To know God, we need to be taught by him who Jesus is.
It Is the Spirit That Gives Life …
As once-adoring followers disappear, Jesus' message becomes clearer and clearer: Their resistance itself is in God's hands.
You Have the Words of Eternal Life …
Though numerous questions remain, we know there's no one like Jesus and no words of eternal life like the words he spoke.
Praying in the Closet and in the Spirit …
Both disciplined and spontaneous prayer should flow from our confidence that God is already 100% on our side.
Holding Fast the Word of Life in 2010 …
There can be no spiritual life and health and growth without God's word.
Help the Children Love the Different People …
Racial Harmony Sunday
Eight ways to help children love those who don't look like them.
Born Blind for the Glory of God …
Eugenics by Abortion Is an Abomination to God
Sanctity of Life Sunday
All children, of every degree of ability, are conceived for the purpose of displaying the glory of God.
I Will Build My Church …
Multiplying churches with different strengths and weaknesses means coming closer to meeting the needs of the world.
Parenting With Hope In the Worst of Times …
In every stage of parenting, knowing God's mercy gives us brokenhearted boldness—and hope.
The Son of Man Must Suffer Many Things …
The death of Christ was planned by the Father and approved by the Son to ransom many people from their sins.
The Immeasurable Greatness of His Power Toward Us …
Easter Sunday
The resurrection of Jesus shows the greatness of God's power toward us now in this life.
How Much Does God Love This Church? …
We are precious to God—so precious that he will not have us make that preciousness into our god.
Consider Your Calling …
God’s love for his people is so rich and full that they need the Holy Spirit's help to really feel it.
Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name …
The Lord's Prayer teaches us to go to God for every need, especially our need to hallow him above all things.
