Marriage for God’s Glory The ultimate thing to see in the Bible about marriage is that it exists...
The Gospel and the Christian Life
The Priesthood of Believers: A Lens for Viewing the World
January 09, 2020 by: Edward T. Welch We Aspire to Be Close As we live in our identity as a...
The Substitutionary Death of Christ
Today we’ll continue our study of “Great Doctrines of the Bible” by Martyn Lloyd-Jones by...
Why Hospitality Is for All Christians
The Diverse Family of God Radically ordinary hospitality—those who live it—see strangers as neighbors and neighbors as family of God. They recoil at reducing a person to a category or a label. They see God’s image reflected in the eyes of every human being on earth....
The Joy of Gospel Partnership
Philippians 1:3-5, “3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, 4 always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.” Partnership is crucial for any worthwhile endeavor in...
Thankfulness for Christ and the Joy He Alone Provides
Philippians 1:3-4, “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,” When I was a child, I learned a song called “I’ve Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy” from my mother, and to this day I can still hear her...
The Lord Is Faithful
2 Thessalonians 3:3-5, “But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and...
Grace and Joy in Christ Alone
Philippians 1:1-2, “Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” An Incredible Book Full of the Grace of God...
Praying For our Children With A Genetic Condition
In 2013, I received a devastating phone call from a pediatric gastroenterologist diagnosing our two-year-old son with a rare and serious genetic condition called alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. While relieved to hear an explanation for his elevated liver enzymes...
Are We Meant to Enjoy Our Work?
What Is the Good Life? The stories we tell reveal our understanding of the world, with our hopes and fears, and the songs we sing are poetic crystallizations of the deep longings of our hearts. The deep longings of our hearts correspond to what we envision as the good...
Teaching Your Kids Gratitude in the Media Age
Turbo-Charged Dissatisfaction Having the ‘gimmees’ is nothing new. Kids have struggled with excessive longings to have more than they do for as long as there have been kids. It’s also not new for them to feel that they should have immaterial things as well as physical...
Bible Reading: Duty or Delight?: Guidance on Bible Reading
As a pastor, I desperately want the people in my church to read the Bible. Not just when they come to big church or Bible study, but during the week on their own. I want the Lord’s people in my local church to read the Bible regularly and consistently. I also desire...
What C. S. Lewis Can Teach Us about Youth Ministry
A Case Study C. S. Lewis provides a case study of what is missing from most youth ministries in the United States. When he was a teenager, he was the kid that would not have had a place in most youth ministries. During his teenage years, C. S. Lewis drifted into...
5 Myths about John Calvin
Dispelling Urban Legends Like many larger-than-life figures in the history of the church, the memory of the French Reformer John Calvin has been subjected to various distortions that amount to urban legends. Myth #1: Calvin had Michael Servetus executed. During what...
10 Things You Should Know about Christian Hospitality
1. Hospitality reflects the gospel. Faithful Christians are—and have always been—a strange minority in a hostile world. Redeemed by Christ, we have lost our old lives—and with our lives, we have left behind the history, identity, and people who once claimed us....