Abhor What Is Evil; Hold Fast to What Is Good …
There is such a thing as objective good and evil outside ourselves.
Abortion and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Abortion, Race, Gender, and Christ …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Millions of abortions are the outworking of racism and sexism. Let us find another way to freedom and equality than killing the babies.
Abortion: Shall We Listen to Men or God? …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
We are not called to win; we are called to witness.
Abortion: The Innocent Blood of Our Sons and Daughters …
How is abortion similar to the child-sacrificing in the Old Testament?
Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have, So You Kill …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Fight the social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany and imagine what is really happening behind clinic doors.
The Absolute Sovereignty of God: What Is Romans Nine About? …
John Piper tells how Romans 9 changed his life and then discusses its overarching theological purpose.
Adam, Where Are You? …
Father's Day
I urge you. Humble yourselves. Grow up. Become a godly man.
Advancing and Sustaining the Covenant Community …
Every Christian has a crucial need for covenant relationships, regardless of how un-American it may be.
Advice to Pastors: Preach the Word …
Installation Sermon
Scripture turned into glad tidings—that is what happens in expository exultation.
Affirming the Goodness of Manhood and Womanhood in All of Life …
Life is more beautiful and more exciting because we are so different as male and female.
The Age of Ignorance Is Over …
Today is a day of repentance and salvation, of missions and evangelism, and of loving and sending.
The Aim of Dr Luke …
Sunday Evening Message
It is important to try to persuade people, like Luke in his Gospel, of the truth of Christianity.
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.
All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God and Profitable …
Thoughts on Bible translations and loving the Word of God.
All the Promises of God Are Yes in Christ …
Are you living in the fullest enjoyment of God's YES to you in Christ Jesus? Have you said yes to all of God's YES to you?
All the Prophets Proclaimed These Days …
Since the first Christmas we have been living in the last days.
All Things Are from God, Through God, and to God. The Glory Is All His …
Do you love the thought that you exist to make God look good?
All Things for Good, Part 1 …
Three things that love for God is not.
All Things for Good, Part 2 …
A call to follow Jesus in the risks of love no matter what it costs.
All Things for Good, Part 3 …
God takes the initiative to cause a person to love him, and he takes the initiative to keep them to the end.
All Things Subject to the Risen Christ …
Easter Sunday
All Things Were Created Through Him and for Him …
In the end, even sin serves to glorify Christ and increase the gladness of his people in him.
The All-Providing King Who Would Not Be King …
Look beyond the bread God provides to the Bread of Life.
Alone in a Big Church …
A Call to Small Togetherness
God designs human support to sustain his children's faith and to lighten the burdens they bear in the service of love.
Always Pray and Do Not Lose Heart …
Jesus makes it clear that eternal life hangs on whether we are ready when he comes.
Ambushing Satan with Song …
Singing to God is not a nice little emotional trip to spice up a worship service—it is a matter of life and death.
Amen …
A Word Common to Many Languages
God's beauty is magnified when it is echoed in prayer and preaching with agreements like "Amen!"
The Anatomy of Backsliding …
Sunday Evening Message
We need to see how the reality of imperfection turns up in the saints of Scripture and how they handled it.
And All the Earth Shall Own Him Lord …
Festival of Mission
In order to be acclaimed Messiah and Lord, the Son of God had to come, defeat the enemy, and lead his people out of bondage in triumph over sin and Satan and death. And that he did on Good Friday and Easter.
Angels and Prayer …
Daniel's Experience and Ours
Take the supernatural seriously and realize that we are in warfare.
Anxieties: to Be Cast Not Carried …
Humble yourselves under the hand of God by casting your anxiety on him.
Are Signs and Wonders for Today? …
Did the apostles have spiritual gifts that are now obsolete?
Are We to Continue in Sin That Grace Might Increase? …
Believers are commanded to become in practice what we are in Christ: dead to sin and alive to God.
Are You Humble Enough to Be Care-Free? …
Humility is what we need if we hope to find rest in the promises of God.
Arming Yourself with the Purpose to Suffer …
The Great Commission will not be completed without suffering.
The Aroma of Christ Among the Nations …
Who can bear the weight of the responsibility of missions work?
Paul gives us five tests to help us know.
As We Forgive Our Debtors …
What Does Forgiveness Look Like?
If we hold fast to an unforgiving spirit, we will not be forgiven by God.
Asa's Folly …
The very nature of God is that he is eager to show his power on behalf of people who trust him.
The Ascent of Joy …
Why was Jesus' ascension into heaven good news for his disciples?
Ask Whatever You Wish …
God designed prayer to give his disciples the joy of bearing fruit while God himself gets the glory.
Ask Your Father in Heaven …
God's lavish invitations to ask him for good things, with the promise that he will give them, is unimaginably wonderful.
At the Price of God's Own Blood …
Can you say say from the bottom of your heart, "Lord, Jesus, there is nothing I want more in my life than what you bled to obtain"?
The Author of the Greatest Letter Ever Written …
First in a Series of Messages on Romans
The Authority and Nature of the Gift of Prophecy …
Prophecy is prompted and sustained by the Spirit and yet does not carry intrinsic, divine authority.
Avoiding Sexual Sin, Part 1 …
Pitfalls and Protections for Christian Leaders
Sunday Evening Message
Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.
Avoiding Sexual Sin, Part 2 …
Pitfalls and Protections for Christian Leaders
Sunday Evening Message
Ten reasons people fall into sexual sin and ten ways to protect ourselves.
The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy …
How the Bible looks at a human being in the womb.
The Baptism and the Genealogy of Jesus …
Sunday Evening Message
You can learn more from a book if you stop and ask it questions than if you just read it passively. That includes the Bible too.
Barnabas: The Goodness of Great Faith …
Consider the outcome of Barnabas' life and imitate his faith.
Barnabas: The Maker of a Great Leader …
Don't quench the Spirit of God this morning. He may be calling you to be a leader-maker.
Barnabas: The Weakness of a Great Leader …
Every strength is vulnerable to its corresponding weakness. Therefore we need each other's different strengths
Battling the Unbelief of a Haughty Spirit …
The battle against pride is the battle against unbelief. The fight for humility is the fight of faith.
Battling the Unbelief of Anxiety …
In your warfare against anxiety, take up the book of God, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and battle on.
Battling the Unbelief of Bitterness …
Anger is very dangerous. If it takes root in your heart and becomes a grudge or an unforgiving spirit, it can destroy you.
Battling the Unbelief of Covetousness …
All covetousness is unbelief. Learn how to use the sword of the Spirit to fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life!
Battling the Unbelief of Envy …
Envy steals your joy when you don't trust that God is doing what he has promised, namely, that which is best for you.
Battling the Unbelief of Impatience …
God says he will bless us if we wait patiently for him.
Battling the Unbelief of Lust …
If you don't fight lust, you won't go to heaven.
Battling the Unbelief of Misplaced Shame …
The battle against misplaced shame is the battle against unbelief in the promises of God.
Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem …
Fight against sin by fighting against unbelief in the promises of God.
Battling Unbelief Together …
We must help each other battle unbelief. We must help each other fight the fight of faith.
Be Diligent to Enter God's Rest! …
There is a rest open to you today. The door is not shut. The time is not past.
Be Filled with the Spirit …
The fundamental meaning of being filled with the Spirit is being filled with joy that comes from God and overflows in song.
Be Kind to One Another …
Christian kindness is not merely an external change of manners; it is an internal change of heart.
Be Like Barnabas Not Like Ananias! …
Faking faith in the presence of God is a fearful thing.
Be Strengthened By Grace …
How can I find and keep the strength I need to obey God's commands?
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.
The Beatitudes and the Gospel of the Kingdom …
The powerful mercy of the kingdom has already come in Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Beautiful Faith of Fearless Submission …
True womanhood is defined by hope in God, fearlessness, and inward adornment.
Beautifying the Body of Christ …
Christ did not simply die for an unworthy woman or for a reluctant woman, but for a woman who found him repulsive.
Becoming a Spiritual House and Holy Priesthood …
Are the sacrifices we offer spiritual sacrifices?
Becoming All Things to All Men to Save Some …
Until the wrath of God figures as largely in our worldview as it did for Paul, we will not have the passion for evangelism that he had.
Behold the Lamb of God …
Those who embrace Jesus as their Lamb and their Lord will be sheltered from God's otherwise inescapable wrath.
Behold, Believe, Be Raised …
Jesus and all that God is for us in him is what we hunger and thirst for, and saving faith is being satisfied in him.
Behold, I Make All Things New …
God wants us to have assurance that no matter how much evil and suffering and futility we see now, he will make all things new.
Being Loved by Christ …
Maundy Thursday
Jesus' love for his people is wonderfully durable, distinct, and deep.
Being Pro-Life Christians Under a Pro-Choice President …
Sanctity of Life Sunday
How shall we obey God's command to honor the king—or the president, or the governor—when they promote dishonorable deeds?
Believe in Your Heart that God Raised Jesus from the Dead …
Easter Sunday
Faith never says, "The righteousness that leads to life is inaccessible." But faith recognizes its own helplessness and gladly accepts this righteousness as a gift from God.
Believing God on Election Day …
The only person who does justice to the sovereignty of God is the person who sings about it.
Bethlehem, Break Forth Like the Dawn …
The people of Christ should not be known primarily for what we don’t do, but for what we do do.
Better Never to Have Known the Way …
The more you know of Christ and his way, the more severe your judgment will be for not trusting and obeying him.
