The course of history has been changed again and again through the fasting of God's people.

We have tasted the wine of Christ's presence by his Spirit and cannot now be satisfied until the consummation of joy arrives.

Fasting is God's testing ground—and healing ground.

Perhaps the Christian church has not used all the spiritual resources available to us in the effort to overcome darkness.

Shall we long for the Christ less than Anna longed for him?

Jesus is not teaching on whether we should fast or not. He assumes we will and teaches us how to do it and especially how not to do it.

Be ware of substituting religious fervor for righteous living.

Let's trust the Great Physician—the Lord, our healer. Let's accept the fast that he has prescribed for us.

God is love. The implications of this for the way we live are big.

If we are to grow in our love to one another, we must first experience being loved by Christ with a deep, unshakable love.

The most worthy of living, the least worthy of dying. This is the life Jesus gave for you—that you might live.

God loved us while we were enemies. God sacrificed his Son for us while we were enemies.

God might have rescued us, sacrificed for us, forgiven us, and not gone any further. But instead he took us into his family.

Of all the great things that Easter means, it also means this: it is a mighty "I meant it!" behind Jesus' death.

How does Christ's love for us turn into our love for others?

All of Scripture hangs on two great purposes: that God be loved with all our heart, and that we love each other as we love ourselves.

Loving God sustains us through all the joy and pain and perplexity and uncertainty of what loving our neighbor should be.

Becoming a child of God and being transformed on the inside precedes and enables love, not vice versa.

Jesus is calling us not just to do good things for our enemy; he is also calling us to WANT their best.

God intends for us not merely to do to others as we would have them do to us, but he wants us to feel toward other believers a certain way.

Without seeing Christ, the burden to show him to others becomes slave labor.

Is there something in your life that is hindering your fruitfulness in Christ—something that you need to die to?

We simply cannot love the way Paul describes until we die.

The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost. He sought them, he received them, he ate with them, and he saved them.

Jesus is the seeking heart of God going out after sinners and winning our repentance.

When sinners turn from their sin and accept Jesus' fellowship as the joy of their lives, they have come home to God. And God is glad.

It dishonors God to treat him as a master in need of slave labor. What honors God is not slave labor, but childlike faith in his all-sufficiency.

To give is not to buy. And that weekly crisis is utterly important to maintain.

The New Testament gives no hint that worship services and classes are the sum total of what church was supposed to be.

We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.

Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the form of love that people can see.

Believing that the Bible is the Word of God is a gigantic event in the soul. Therefore God does not leave it merely to man.

All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.

When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.

All Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other stay satisfied in God.

Our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in everything, including choosing where we live.

The abiding foundation of our corporate worship is God-centeredness.

The fact that Jesus was born to a poor couple in a cow stall tells us something about the way God meant to reach the world.

At the end of this season, receive the best present imaginable: Jesus giving himself to die for you and serve you.

Were you ransomed when Christ died? Are you still under the guilt and power of sin when you might be free?

God calls us from time to time, and some of us as a kind of vocation, to strive—to struggle, and wrestle, and persist, and prevail in prayer.