Where is the Love of God?
It is possible even for Christians to feel disconnected from God’s love. Here’s how to stay connected.
The most effective way to combat the impact of trials that roll like sea billows is to grow in the love of God before the wind begins to stir the sea around us. The key anchor for believers in Christ is God’s Word. Objective proof of God’s love is the starting point for experiencing or... Continue Reading
The Message of The Consummation: Christ, The True Center
Highlighting the central elements of Christ’s return as they are reflected in his words to the disciples.
Who or what is your center? To whom or what are you devoting your life’s time, talent, treasure, and energies as you journey through this world toward the hour of your death or the day of my Son’s return? Have you considered him: his life, his miracles, his teachings, his death, his resurrection, his exaltation,... Continue Reading
The Idol of the People Pleaser
If our attitude to service changes with who’s around then we are pleasing people.
When the temptation comes to please people more than God let’s remember what men are like. Don’t be fooled by the compliments of men. They will not give you what you need. Only Jesus is worthy of our worship. Men will have ulterior motives but Jesus has already served us even before we accepted him.... Continue Reading
The Power of Song and Testimony in Church Tradition
Sojourning songs tell the narrative of how God meets with, walks with, and sustains his people through the various hardships of life.
Our churches need to sing songs of the good news of our great redemption in Christ and the hope that we have because of that truth. However, we also need to sing songs of sojourning in our gatherings to train believers how to walk as pilgrims through this barren land with an enduring faith in... Continue Reading
Entitlement is the Enemy of Worship
We cannot worship God until we believe he owes us nothing.
May the Lord help us to kill entitlement. May he remind us by his Gospel what it cost his son to save us. That it’s his breath that keeps us alive and his hands that hold the universe together. Help us Lord to kill this sense of entitlement in us. Help us so that we... Continue Reading
Why is the Toy Market Targeting Adults?
Toy companies are expanding special lines of products that appeal to kidults.
The appearance of the kidult is troubling from several non-economic perspectives. It speaks of the state of a decadent culture that embraces childish and immature things. Childhood is a transitory state through which all pass. It can be a time of innocence and happiness where everything is full of wonder and freshness. However, it is... Continue Reading
Living as Christians in a National Fertility Crisis
For Christians, the decision to pursue childbearing isn’t ultimately an economic decision; it’s a theological one.
In many places today, younger generations face difficult living conditions. Sadly, many are dealing with deep hopelessness. But Christians aren’t called to judge the legitimacy of God’s purposes based on our personal situation. Whether in the age of Korea’s birth control policy or today during the fears of ultra-low fertility, God’s command is unchanged. My desire... Continue Reading
This is My Beloved Son | Matthew 3:17
Though we cannot understand the depths of this mystery, we must remember that Christ lived His earthly life in His humanity.
The Father was pleased with Christ because He was perfectly and entirely obedient. He is only pleased with us because the perfect obedience of Christ has been fully imputed onto us. Therefore, whenever we think upon the works (Ephesians 2:10) or ministry (Ephesians 4:12) that the Father has set for us to accomplish, we do... Continue Reading
Longing, Lament, and Joy
The Kingdom is here, the Kingdom is not yet here. We live in the Twixt, the time between the times.
We can cultivate joy. We can learn joy. We can choose joy—in fact you have to, it won’t come naturally. But there is no shortcut to joy. There are no five steps that will get you there. We simply have to realise that nothing we have is worth anything all that much when viewed eternally, that the... Continue Reading
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntington
The more Selina let go of her earthly ties (only her daughter Elizabeth outlived her), the more she poured her life in the spreading of the gospel.
As the Church of England tightened its rules in preventing dissenters from obtaining a license to preach, she found a loophole in the legislation by calling preachers to minister in her private chapels, which was allowed. She stretched however the rule by enlarging her chapels and inviting thousands to attend the services. By the end... Continue Reading
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