January
Purified to Serve the Living God …
How can people destroyed by their sin draw near to a perfect God?
Be Strong and Fervent in Spirit in the Cause of Truth and Life …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Boredom with Christ is blindness. Open your eyes and let him inspire in you a new passion for the cause of life.
How the Called Receive an Eternal Inheritance …
How is the New Covenant like a last will and testament?
February
March
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.
What Jesus Built by Rising from the Dead …
Easter Sunday
April
Consider Each Other How to Stir Up Love …
Consider others—study them, know them, figure them out—to the end that you stimulate them to love and good deeds.
Woe to Those Who Trample the Son of God …
Threatening judgment is an effective (and biblical) way to motivate people.
May
I Baptize You with Water …
The Baptism of John
What was significant about John's baptism, and how does it relate to the way we baptize today?
June
The Faith of Noah, Abraham, and Sarah …
Installation of Chuck Steddom As Minister of Worship and Music
Saving faith isn't merely the one-time act of receiving Jesus. It goes on trusting him.
The Hope of Exiles on the Earth …
God honors faith and obedience by using all of his wisdom, power and love to turn that kind of life into one of great joy.
August
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."
The Painful Discipline of Our Heavenly Father …
God is not an ER doctor who only repairs our hurts; he is a master surgeon who plans our hurts in order that he might do us greater good.
Fail Not to Obtain the Grace of God …
Knowing that God's discipline is for our good helps us press on in faith.
September
You Have Come to Mount Zion …
Obedience is not our way of getting God to do something. It is how we act when we trust that God is already working for us.
Small Group Life in the Power of God's Promises …
The promises of God are the key to love and victory over sin. But we need people in our lives to "encourage us day after day" with those promises.
Be Strengthened By Grace …
How can I find and keep the strength I need to obey God's commands?
Let Us Go With Jesus Bearing Reproach …
Christians have a hope that frees them to move toward need, not comfort.
October
Obey Your Joyful Leaders, Part 1 …
Spiritual leaders are to keep watch of the word, of Christ, of themselves, and of their people.
Obey Your Joyful Leaders, Part 2 …
Part Two
Elders should see themselves as servants, and the church should have a bent toward trusting them.
It's All the Work of God …
Christians are secure, not because they are strong, but because God is sovereign and faithful to his new covenant promises.
World Missions and the End of History …
Missions Week
The price will be high, but God's promise that the gospel will spread to all nations will be fulfilled by his omnipotent hand.
November
All of Life as Worship …
God is worshiped when we seek to express and increase our satisfaction in all that he is for us in Jesus Christ.
December
Magnifying God with Money …
How can money be used to worship God?