There is a deadly disease and an awesome enemy. And every one of us will die from this disease and be devoured by that enemy if there is no horn of salvation for us.

If the church has no compelling reasons for believing the biblical portrait of Jesus, then we are acting like well-trained animals who can be turned this way and that by arbitrary incentives.

If you ever meet a man who cares nothing for the praise and approval of men (Mark 12:14), but whose one controlling desire is to glorify God whom he loves with all his heart, believe that man. He is true.

There is no true freedom where happiness depends on denying the inevitable; there is only slavery disguised in a thousand forms of fun and busyness.

We don't have a deep sense of peace and fulfillment when we have successfully deluded everybody about who we really are or what we really feel or think. There is a deep (and I believe God-given) longing to be authentic, not to be hypocrites.

Trusting Christ as Savior, surrendering to him as Lord, and orienting all of your family relations on him, transforms the home into a little heaven on earth.

We crave to be moved by some rare glimpse of greatness. We yearn for a vision of glory.

It is a supreme irony that the people at the cross should look on the dying Savior and mock him with their own misunderstanding of this saying.

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

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

When Jesus comes into the world, he comes as a sun.

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?

Jesus does not like pessimistic views of life or history. He has surprises in store that you have never dreamed.

Jesus frees us from sin, which is one of seven reasons for why you should trust him.

We need to be like lights shining in a dark place. Which means we need to behold Jesus. We need to gaze at Christ.

It was the will of the Lord to crush him, NOT because of his own sins, but because of our sins.

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

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.

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

We are saved by Jesus' suffering because that is what will glorify God most.

Christ became our salvation because he was perfect in three ways: in his dignity, in his eternity, and in his purity.

John Piper preaches a prayer as his final sermon in the book of Romans.

Nothing is more important as a church grows than that its people help each other rejoice in Jesus.

Not only is Jesus the Life that created all material life, but he is the Life that creates all eternal life.

By becoming a man, Jesus shows us the glory of God.

What do Jesus' titles in the first chapter of John say about him?

Jesus knows everything about everyone and is still willing to love those who trust in him.

John the Baptist models how we ought to respond to the exaltation of Jesus.

The woman-at-the-well account reveals woeful truth about us and wonderful truth about Jesus.

The natural timeframe of sowing and reaping does not pertain to Jesus and his saving power.

Look beyond the bread God provides to the Bread of Life.

When Jesus is our highest Treasure something about everything changes.

To know God, we need to be taught by him who Jesus is.

Though numerous questions remain, we know there's no one like Jesus and no words of eternal life like the words he spoke.