If you're new here to Servants of Grace, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s once again that time of year where Christians take time to figure out what Bible reading program we are going to do. I’d like to offer some suggestions and let you know which one I’m going to be using this year. Discipleship Journal Several years ago, I used NavPress’s Discipleship Journal plan and found it helpful when I...

Explanation of Hebrews 6:20             Jesus has entered the heavenly sanctuary on our behalf. He has gone there as forerunner, a designation found only here in the New Testament but which appears in a variety of athletic and military contexts of the Hellenistic world. In Hebrews, where the term is employed figuratively, the notion of precedence prevails over that of speed. As forerunner Jesus did not simply ‘run on ahead’....

Francis Chan once noted that: We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God….shouldn’t there be a huge difference between the person who has the Spirit of God living inside of him or her and the person who does not? There certainly should be. It’s important to remember that God the Holy Spirit is not some apathetic entity who just...

So many times I fall into the trap of thinking that preaching or leading worship are both so super-spiritual that they are of more worth than any other way of serving. Pride becomes my master and sets the course for my ambitions. My over-joyful reaction at being asked to lead a small group quickly turns to dispassion when asked to be a parking monitor. Christ taught and modeled that a servant was more than being seen as a leader. Biblical...

Introduction According to Roger Olsen, the “Calvinist account of God’s sovereignty inevitably makes God the author of sin, evil and innocent suffering… [He] is at best morally ambiguous and at worst a moral monster hardly distinguishable from the devil” (Olsen, 84). But is this assessment fair to the Calvinist position or consistent with Scripture? Olsen, a professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor...