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.