Receive With Meekness the Implanted Word …
Our souls need Scripture just like our bodies need oxygen: moment by moment, every day.
January
Born Again Through the Living and Abiding Word …
The new birth does not give us a mere temporary resuscitation. It gives indestructible, imperishable life.
Probability, Prejudice, and Christ …
What's the difference between necessary judgments of probability and sinful prejudice?
Abortion: The Innocent Blood of Our Sons and Daughters …
How is abortion similar to the child-sacrificing in the Old Testament?
February
Through the Washing of Regeneration …
New birth is God's kindness, philanthropy, and mercy to us. It has nothing to do with even our best deeds.
What Man Does in the New Birth …
Our believing does not cause new birth. The new birth causes our belief.
Faith: Unique and Fruitful Effect of the New Birth …
The Gospel is news and we are born again by believing that it is true and embracing it.
Everyone Who Has Been Born of God Overcomes the World …
A Wide-Angle View of John’s First Letter
Newborn believers obey God's commandments, knowing that even when they fail they will never ultimately fall away.
March
Regeneration, Faith, Love: In That Order …
Faith must come first and be the root of love. Otherwise, love will be destroyed.
No One Born of God Makes a Practice of Sinning …
Being born again doesn't mean being sinless. It means coming to Jesus as your advocate.
The New Birth Produces Love …
By nature, those who are born again love others like God who gave his Son for them.
The God of Peace Brought from the Dead the Good Shepherd …
Easter Sunday
Jesus will always be our shepherd and we will always get the incomparable joy of being his sheep.
April
You Are God's Midwife for the New Birth of Others …
When God gives new birth, he does so through us speaking his word, the gospel.
I'm Sending You to Open Their Eyes …
10 practical encouragments to evangelize.
Let No One Despise You for Your Youth …
A Vision for the Next Generation
How should the gospel affect our vision for the next generation?
May
Songs That Shape the Heart and Mind …
Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God, Part 1
The combination of instruction with emotion in the Psalms.
June
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.
July
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.
August
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.
September
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.
October
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.
November
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.
December
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.
