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Not Dead Yet: Fighting Nine Fears of Old Age

Not Dead Yet: Fighting Nine Fears of Old Age

Not Dead Yet

Fighting Nine Fears of Old Age

As we age, fears can multiply like wrinkles. But for every concern, we have a blood-bought promise far, far older than our fears.

Press Afresh into Jesus: Four Truths About Genuine Faith

Press Afresh into Jesus: Four Truths About Genuine Faith

Press Afresh into Jesus

Four Truths About Genuine Faith

Genuine faith welcomes, enjoys, fears, strives after, and rests in God. And in doing so, genuine faith perseveres.

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The Demons, the Fever, and the Word of the King

The Demons, the Fever, and the Word of the King

While on earth, Jesus spoke with unmatched power. Demons obeyed him, and fevers fled at his word. Everything was subject to him — then and now.

Do Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors

Do Outsiders Still Matter?

An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors

For pastors to be “well thought of by outsiders” certainly isn’t everything, but it made God’s list of requirements. Is it still on ours?

The Story of the Greatest Coronation

The Story of the Greatest Coronation

When Christ ascended into heaven, an otherworldly ceremony commenced. Here was the long-awaited Son of David, the only man angels ever worshiped.

Danger Averted, Destiny Attained: Funeral Message for Lois Nelson (1919–2023)

Danger Averted, Destiny Attained

Funeral Message for Lois Nelson (1919–2023)

When a Christian goes home to be with the Lord, we who remain have the chance to rehearse God’s loving design in every believer’s death.

Saving Faith as Treasuring Christ

Saving Faith as Treasuring Christ

What is the actual experience of receiving Christ? What happens in the soul? Saving faith sees the Son not only as useful, but precious.

A World God Could Admire: Recovering His Pleasure in Creation

A World God Could Admire

Recovering His Pleasure in Creation

Do you ever stop, slow down, and marvel at something God has made? If we could see it all like he does, we’d see far more than we do.

What Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages?

What Will Man Be Like for Countless Future Ages?

When our hearts run dry, and our good works languish, the Bible bids us: “Consider the end.”

It Will Be Worth It: Overcoming Obstacles to World Missions

It Will Be Worth It

Overcoming Obstacles to World Missions

When it comes to missions, reasons abound to stay rather than to go. But for every apparent obstacle, countless promises say, “It will be worth it.”

Ordinary Elders, Part 2: Governing as Men Who Teach

Ordinary Elders, Part 2

Governing as Men Who Teach

Pastors are first and foremost teachers, but they are not only teachers. They feed the sheep and lead the sheep — and they lead by feeding.

Ordinary Elders, Part 1: Working for the Joy of Others

Ordinary Elders, Part 1

Working for the Joy of Others

The pastors we all want are men who want to pastor, who want to see God move in them and through them for the joy of others.

Is Jesus an Egomaniac? Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian Faith

Is Jesus an Egomaniac?

Overcoming a Major Obstacle to Christian Faith

What do we call an obsessively self-centered person? An egomaniac. Then what should we call God, who demands all our praise? We call him gracious.

The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good: All of Psalm 16 for a New Year

The Lord Governs My Good and Is My Good

All of Psalm 16 for a New Year

When we pray for God to preserve us, we ask that he would be not only our Lord, but our life — not only our God, but our highest and everlasting good.

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