The blessed hope of all who believe is the appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Do you eagerly await the coming of Christ?

There is coming a day when our bodies are going to be redeemed and there will be no more groaning.

The presence of a struggle with sin in this life is not a sign that we are lost. Perfection is not the test of spiritual life in this age.

A wise son makes a glad father, says the Lord, and it is the Word of God that makes a son wise.

Dads, father your children in a way that shows what kind of father God is.

If there is any wonder or awe or admiration or fame or praise or applause, it belongs to the glory of God. For all other glory is like grass compared to God's.

Without Christian hope my life and your life cannot yield Christian joy or love or boldness or endurance.

Heavenly-mindedness is what frees our hands to do the works of love.

A great hope produces great boldness.

Endurance is a gift and endurance is a duty. And these are not in conflict.

Escape from futility! Live a different way. Walk a different path.

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.

When Paul says, put off the old person and put on the new person, he is not talking about an optional elective. This is the core curriculum in the school of Christ.

If we walk with Jesus, we will be straightforward, open, and honest in all our dealings and in every relationship.

You can live to HAVE, either legally or illegally. Or you can become a Christian and live to give.

Four kinds of rotten language, and a whole new way to think about words.

Christian kindness is not merely an external change of manners; it is an internal change of heart.

Success in morality without the gospel is suicide.

God's purpose is to be known and praised and enjoyed and feared among all the nations of the earth.

How are we supposed to understand and live out the paradoxes of Scripture?

To recognize and receive Christ for who he really is, God the Father must reveal it to you.

The great obstacle to recognizing the truth of Christ is not deficient resources but deep rebellion against God.

The use of money can make or break your eternal destiny.

God prepares a person to receive Christ by stirring up a longing for consolation and redemption that can come only from Christ.

We all need a cause to live for that accords with our Creator's purposes.

The Lord's Prayer is an invitation not only to pray but to pray together with other believers.

God lives in the soul of man by the indwelling of his Spirit.

Fight the social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany and imagine what is really happening behind clinic doors.

The first and most fundamental thing we can say about the pleasures of God is that he takes pleasure in his Son.

God is never constrained to do a thing that he despises. He does whatever he wants.

God rejoices in his works because his works are an expression of his glory.

God's first love is his name and not his people. And because it is, there is hope for his sinful people.

God has given us the joy of spiritual sight so that we might spread the reputation of our eye doctor.

God takes pleasure in election because it magnifies his name.

God does not do you good out of some constraint or coercion. He is free! And in his freedom he overflows in joy to do you good.

There were two ongoing offices in the NT church for the management and care of the church: elders and deacons.

God's pleasure in his name and his pleasure in doing good to sinners meet and marry in his pleasure in bruising his Son.

A deacon is an office in the church with a special focus on practical and more material needs.

God delights in those responses which mirror his magnificence.

Prayer is that wonderful transaction where the wealth of God's glory is magnified and the wants of our soul are satisfied.

Obedience to God makes our God-glorifying hope visible and proves that it is real in our lives.

Having just and honest dealings in the world displays our confidence that God always cares and provides for his children.

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.

On Easter Sunday morning Jesus blew the lock off the prison of death and gloom and returned to the gladness of God.

Risk only exists because of ignorance.

It is the will of the Lord that we take risks for the cause of God.

In Christ's triumph our enemy is not just defeated, but captured and made to serve our eternal good.

Today is a day of repentance and salvation, of missions and evangelism, and of loving and sending.

We are ruins being rebuilt by the grace of God. And we are here that the rest of men may seek the Lord.

Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.

Consider the outcome of Barnabas' life and imitate his faith.

We need to see how the reality of imperfection turns up in the saints of Scripture and how they handled it.

Don't quench the Spirit of God this morning. He may be calling you to be a leader-maker.

Every strength is vulnerable to its corresponding weakness. Therefore we need each other's different strengths

Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.

All affliction is designed to make us worthy of the kingdom of God.

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.

Before the day of the Lord comes, the man of lawlessness must come first.

When circumstances arise that alarm you, the key is to hold fast to the traditions that were taught by the apostles.

What will be the strongest witness in the last days?

God is worshiped and honored and savored both by fainting for him and by feasting on him.

The mark of living worthily of the gospel is a unified, fearless striving for the faith of the gospel.

Have you learned the love of God in a way that makes you tremble?

Those who know God as Father should honor their majestic Father.

If you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God, you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

A great danger to the pastoral ministry is that the voice of God in Scripture may be drowned out by other voices.

The ministry of the Word can destroy and the ministry of the Word can save.

Don't back out on your commitments, don't marry an unbeliever, and don't divorce your covenant wife.

If God were only an incinerating fire, heaven would be empty. And if he were no fire, heaven would be empty.

Everything we spend on ourselves should be to build a platform for giving, that is, for loving.

God will spare sinful sons, precisely because he did not spare his only sinless Son.

When Jesus comes into the world, he comes as a sun.

God has turned his heart toward you in Jesus Christ. Don't push it away.

Prayer is not a mere devotional interlude in the real business of living; it is the pathway of faith and obedience. There is no other.

The prerequisite for divine guidance is not a quest for messages, but a quest for holiness.

The freedom of God in the calling of sinners gives us hope. No one is too bad. No one is too hard. No one is too far gone. God is free.

We should aim at full doctrinal unity and full heart unity.

The cross undermines the deepest basis of disunity and lays a new foundation for unity.

God's purpose in creating man and saving sinners is that we might boast in him.

Saving faith can be so weak at times that the heart gives way to grievous sin.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life!

Without the Spirit, we are so rebellious against the Lord that we cannot recognize the truth and beauty of a crucified Christ.

There is a group of people whom Paul calls not spiritual and not natural, but "fleshly," or "babes in Christ."

It's the absence of the centrality of the biblical God in all of life that is leading to the collapse of our civilization.

Let us be vigilant to keep Christ as the foundation of our church.

For those who live to spread my praise to all nations, says the Lord, nothing shall be lacking.

God is the Giver, not Taker, on both sides of our giving.

An allegory of a man in a prison called "conviction" and how he got out.

Jesus' love for his people is wonderfully durable, distinct, and deep.

The great word of the resurrection is OPEN! Therefore write in capital letters over every closed door in your life, OPEN!

Either we press on toward the inheritance or we drift back toward destruction. There is no third option.

The coach of Scripture and the floor of Christ conspire to keep the saints from breaking our necks again and again.

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.

Being responsible parents is a serious business. Far more serious than most of us think.

Our great challenge is to be the kind of church and the kind of parents that raise up children who hope in the triumph of God.

Giving the gospel away is one of the best ways of experiencing its power in your own life.

God wants people who welcome his strategic interruptions and surprises.