Worship must have heart and worship must have head.

Jesus did not come to snuff out your struggling flicker but to fan it carefully into a torch for his glory.

A Good Friday Meditation
What can we learn from Jesus about how to die?

If the Spirit of God indwells you, God is going to raise you from the dead at Christ's second coming and give new life to your mortal bodies.

Christianity is not merely an array of glorious ideas. It is the life-changing experience of the Holy Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ the Lord of the universe.

God's great desire for his people is that we feel secure in his love and in his power.

Sanctification is obeying the Commander-in-Chief. Sanctification is a wartime word.

The first and most fundamental work of God's Spirit in the life of the natural man is to shatter pride.

What is the kind of unity that will bring honor and credit to our high calling?

The Spirit wants the world for Christ, but the goal is not yet reached.

In their hour of greatest trial God gives his children courage and faith.

I urge you. Humble yourselves. Grow up. Become a godly man.

When it seems that God is farthest from you or has turned against you, he is actually laying foundations for your greater happiness.

God will reward Ruth because she has sought refuge under his wings.

Hopelessness makes us think we need to have illicit pleasures to be happy. But hope gives us a thrilling impulse to do good.

The life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. No matter where you are, if you love God, the best is yet to come.

Jesus gives us eight reasons in Matthew 6 for why we shouldn't be anxious.

All Christians must lay hold on eternal life by fighting the good fight of faith.

Contained in the name Yahweh is the first and most important truth about God: he exists.

Disciples of Jesus should remove all hindrances that keep children from coming to Jesus.

When I choose God, it is because he has first chosen me. My will is not sovereign and self-determining. God's is.

The omnipotence of God means reverence, recompense, and refuge, for his covenant people.

God's self-sufficiency and sovereign freedom are the very sources from which his mighty mercy overflows.

At the end of every road is God. You will meet him as light and life or as fire and torment.

The lofty One whose name is Holy dwells with crushed and humble saints.

God responds with terrible wrath against those whose hearts should belong to him but go after other things.

In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches that the first priority in praying is to ask that our heavenly Father's name be hallowed.

Jesus the Passover Lamb was slain to ransom people from every tribe and tongue and nation.

The ultimate goal of the church is to reflect and display the glory and worth of God. Missions is a means, not an end.

If the truth is lost, salvation is lost.

There is no better way to spend a brief life on this little earth than to spend it in the ministry of the Word.

Without the Word of God abiding and taking root in our heart we cannot bear fruit, be disciples, or inherit eternal life.

When you battle with sexual temptation, you battle against Satan.

The only way to get victory over anger is to put off the old nature and put on the new.

The reason there is a Christmas is because God aims to destroy something.

Regret can be good if it produces repentance and leads to salvation.

Jesus planned for our joy; we ought to plan for his glory.

Singing to God is not a nice little emotional trip to spice up a worship service—it is a matter of life and death.

When God becomes a man, he strips away every pretense of man to be God.

If we are not walking in the light, we have no warrant for believing that our sins are covered.

We must walk in the light if we are to go on experiencing the cleansing of Jesus. And if we sin, we do indeed have an advocate with the Father.

You can know that you know Christ if you obey his commands.

Hate is the evidence of blindness to the light of God. Love is the evidence that sight has been given to the blind.

Unless there is hope of winning there is no motivation to fight. The apostle John motivates the fight with the confidence of victory.

Anything that is not God can draw your heart away from God.

The Spirit agrees with the apostolic doctrine or it is not the Spirit of God.

Hearing the gospel with openness and confessing Christ with loyalty is the work and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

The evidence of being indwelt by the Spirit of God is the experience of loving Jesus the way the Father loves him.

Six questions to see if you have genuine faith in Christ and love for others.

A life poured out in love for others yields peace of mind and the hope of a glorious destiny.

Faith says to every temptation of the world: NO, BE GONE! I know where true satisfaction is to be found.

Nothing is more important than having eternal life.

Job's worship was remarkable because it came in the midst of great suffering.

Why did God prolong Job's suffering? Didn't his initial reaction prove his faith?

The suffering of the righteous is not a token of God's enmity but of his love. It is not a punishment of their sins but a refinement of their righteousness.

It is presumptuous to assume you can counsel God about how to run a more just world.

What God is after in all his dealings with his children is a brokenhearted joy that trusts like a little child in God and returns good for evil.

Our homes and apartments should stand constantly ready for strategic hospitality—a readiness to welcome people who don't ordinarily live there.

God's help is always well-timed.

Preserve your freedom in Christ! Can you say with Paul, "I will not be enslaved by anything!"?

Worshiping God is the number one duty of every human being.

Where the gospel flourishes people share their souls—their joys, guilts, fears, and passions.

God's invitation to the banquet of his eternal joy is sent through the church indiscriminately to all people.

When the massive weather front of God's love meets the massive weather front of God's power in the heart of a believer, it produces a hurricane of doxology.

Humbly accept the fact that your true advancement in life depends far more on God's labor than yours.

No promise in all the world surpasses the height and breadth and weight of Romans 8:28.

The glory of the preeminence Christ is the ultimate goal of predestination.

Our call, our conversion, our regeneration, and the gift of our faith are based on God's eternal election and predestination not on our self-determination.

The doctrines of sovereign grace are not overthrown by problems in Scripture. They stand firm and are the precious foundation of our deepest hopes.

God flattened the mountain of his wrath that blocked the railroad between my predestination and my glorification. He justified us by the death of his Son.

It is faith alone which justifies, but that the faith which justifies never stays alone. It is living and active and bears fruit in obedience.

Glorification is the work of God by which he makes his children both spiritually and physically glorious.

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to the Son of God and he declares, "I must bring in my other sheep." He will do it.

Thankfulness guards our souls because it nurtures humility and kills triviality.

We need a Savior because we are spiritually dead and helpless without him, no matter how good we look on the outside.

We were dead to God, enslaved to Satan, and were rightfully under the wrath of God. There was only one hope, and it was not in ourselves.

We were dead in sin, BUT GOD made us alive with Christ.

It is the duty of Christians to seek God's power to fulfill good resolves.

It is fitting for those who believe in the sovereignty of God to feel a deep sorrow and for the lost and a deep longing for their conversion.

Paul does not pray for ineffectual influences, but for effectual influences. And that is how we should pray too.

Authenticity and depth in worship characterize those who suffer with Christ by bearing the burdens of others.

The powerful mercy of the kingdom has already come in Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Blessed are those who feel keenly their helplessness and their unworthiness and their emptiness and are driven by them to the grace of God.

Meekness begins with God and ends with God.

The hunger of your life that cannot be satisfied by anything in this world is the constant beckoning of God to remember that you were made for him.

Mercy comes from mercy. Our mercy to each other comes from God's mercy to us.

It is not enough to clean up our act on the outside. Jesus is concerned about our heart.

God is a peace-loving God, and a peacemaking God. God's children have the character of their Father.

To the degree that you believe what Jesus sees in heaven, to that degree you will be able to rejoice and be glad in suffering.

You were made to admire Jesus Christ the Lion and the Lamb.

Academic stature has never been a guarantee of religious insight.

Biblical hope not only desires something good for the future; it expects it to happen.

From beginning to end our salvation—our election, our calling, our faith, our sanctification, and our glorification—is a work of divine grace.

The gospel is the good news that there is hope for sinners, the worst of sinners.

To get well from the disease of sin, and to have a living hope, you have to undergo surgery.

The strength to endure comes from the hope before us. And the hope before us comes from the Scriptures.

The daughters of Sarah fight the anxiety that rises in their hearts. They wage war on fear, and they defeat it with the promises of God.