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‘All Will Rest in Peace’

‘All Will Rest in Peace’

How Satan Comforts the Bereaved

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Only Halfway Home: Demons, Disciple-Making, and Middle-Age

Only Halfway Home

Demons, Disciple-Making, and Middle-Age

Laboring for others’ happiness in Jesus, at every stage of our lives, is a vital element in laboring for our own happiness in Jesus.

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Grace Flows from Joy in the Trinity: Ephesians 1:7–10, Part 5

Grace Flows from Joy in the Trinity: Ephesians 1:7–10, Part 5

Grace Flows from Joy in the Trinity

Ephesians 1:7–10, Part 5

“To the praise of the glory of his grace” summarizes the purpose of Ephesians, your life, and history.

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Do We Need Extrabiblical Texts to Understand the Bible?

Do We Need Extrabiblical Texts to Understand the Bible?

Do We Need Extrabiblical Texts to Understand the Bible?

Extrabiblical sources can help fill in some details of our Bible study, but all the gold we need to mine for life and godliness is in our English Bibles.

Brave Words with a Broken Heart: The Unusual Boldness of the Apostle Paul

Brave Words with a Broken Heart: The Unusual Boldness of the Apostle Paul

Brave Words with a Broken Heart

The Unusual Boldness of the Apostle Paul

Boldness without gentleness betrays the unrelenting kindness of God. Gentleness without courage betrays the God who never compromises.

Time Alone for God: The Ageless Habits of Jesus Christ

Time Alone for God

The Ageless Habits of Jesus Christ

We know more about the everyday habits of Jesus than we often realize. And you may be surprised how timeless and relevant they are today.

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Did God Save Me to Call Attention to Himself?

Did God Save Me to Call Attention to Himself?

Did God Save Me to Call Attention to Himself?

Over and over in the Bible, God says that he saves us in order to draw attention to himself. Why did God design salvation that way?

America Was Never Home: How Christian Exiles Love a Nation Like Ours

America Was Never Home

How Christian Exiles Love a Nation Like Ours

This world is not our home, yet God has placed us here for a purpose. We are both strangers and citizens, exiles and ambassadors.

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Christ Redeems Us from Disobedience: Ephesians 1:7–10, Part 4

Christ Redeems Us from Disobedience

Ephesians 1:7–10, Part 4

Christ’s blood not only purchases our forgiveness, but our obedience. We were not only redeemed from guilt, but from our futile ways of living.

Already, Not Yet: How to Live in the Last Days

Already, Not Yet

How to Live in the Last Days

At Christ’s first coming, he inaugurated the last days; at his second coming, he will complete them. Until then, we live in “the overlap of the ages.”

Brokenhearted Boldness: A Christian Alternative to Outrage Culture

Brokenhearted Boldness

A Christian Alternative to Outrage Culture

Without a broken heart, our boldness can become brash, harsh, severe, cruel, angry, impatient, and obnoxious — all in the name of Christian courage.

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Books Don’t Change People, Paragraphs Do

I have often said, “Books don’t change people, paragraphs do — sometimes sentences.” This may not be fair to books, since paragraphs find their way to us through books, and they often gain their peculiar power because of the context…

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The End of the Gospel

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Is God for Us or for Himself?

Expository Exultation

Expository Exultation

Christian Preaching as Worship

Christian preaching is a God-appointed means of transforming its hearers in both head and heart — not only in intellect, but also in affections.