Guaranteed!
Both our survival and arrival are guaranteed.
Paul compares our bodies to a tent – fragile and temporary. But one day we will trade in our earthly tent for a glorious dwelling. Our sin-riddled lives, worn by the years lived in a falling-apart world, will be turned in for solid, permanent lives, handmade by God. Mortality swallowed up by life. As pilgrims... Continue Reading
A Worthy Wife to Be
Tracing the Rare Beauty of Ruth
Ruth did what she could (even straining her capacity at times) to care for those God had given to her, even when the risks were great, even when her strength ran low, even when others would have understood if she stopped, because Ruth was a worthy woman. She knew that typically the man would... Continue Reading
Authentic Ministry: Servanthood, Tears, and Temptations
The Lord calls pastors to do His will with lowliness of mind and heart, compassion, and faithfulness.
The Lord calls pastors to do His will with lowliness of mind, compassion, and faithfulness. He calls us to serve the Lord in humility, tears, and temptations. That is what we learn from Paul’s words in Acts 20:19. We have this calling from a glorious Lord, who is worthy of our faith and of such faithful... Continue Reading
5 Ways to Grow in Love for Christ
Love to Christ makes us want to be like Him.
Faith in Christ increases love for Christ. Faith and love together enliven us in all holy obedience and spiritual worship. The Christian then reads and hears the word of Christ, because they love to hear His voice. They pray because they love to speak to and pour out their heart to their best friend. They... Continue Reading
It Has To Be Dark Before We Can See
It had to be dark for Adam to truly see.
Just like the sun needed to set and the light needed to fade before Adam could see the glories of the heavens opened up before him, those who want to know spiritual light must first know spiritual darkness. To know the hand of comfort we need to know the pain of sorrow. To know the... Continue Reading
6 Encouragements To Live By Faith
For as we walk with God by faith we walk in the shadow of those gone before, encouraged and inspired by their faith.
Everyone is always dealing with something. With this being the case Hebrews 11 provides for us a hope. A future hope. A hope that one day things will be better, that one day we will be with God and it all will be made perfect. One day the acute pain of living now will be made... Continue Reading
The Jesus Bible
Was Jesus’s Bible, the Jewish Scriptures, different from the Old Testament we use today?
While it is an interesting question to ask what Bible Jesus read, it is a beautiful thing to see how we are able to read Jesus on every page. From the Old Covenant to the New, Jesus looms large. God’s comfort in the light of the curse was the promise of a child who would... Continue Reading
Do You Have Job’s Fainting Heart? Should You?
Job had a deep yearning to see God with his own eyes in his glorified resurrection body.
When a believer has the profound, heart-felt desire to see God, like Job did, it demonstrates how valuable God is. People and things that matter to us make an emotional impression on us. And who is of more worth, objectively speaking, than God? What is of more worth, objectively speaking, than the gospel? In... Continue Reading
John’s Conversations
Did you know there were different ways in Greek to describe how one person responded to someone else?
Thankfully, we can all become better acquainted with the Lord Jesus without ever knowing John used two different strategies to report responses in conversation (as fascinating and potentially useful as that might be). John’s Gospel, and the Word of God as a whole, reveal the Son of God, who deserves our worship. Conversation has... Continue Reading
Who Will “Stand in the Gap”?
The need to stand in the gap before God is as urgent now as it was six hundred years before Christ.
There are many biblical passages in which God seeks out and appoints prophets, priests, kings, apostles, gospel heralds. In the context of Ezekiel 22, however, God is looking for an intercessor who by God’s own appointment blocks God’s way, as it were (not unlike Moses in Exodus 32–34). I looked for someone among them... Continue Reading
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