The only qualification for receiving a welcome from Jesus is to be in need of what he can supply....

The antichrist just might be closer to you than you thought....

God tests his people, but he never tempts them with evil....

Resurrection is the promise to reunite all that death has separated....

Ignoring the real facts that separate us holds no promise for finding unity....

Trying to maintain unity apart from a commitment to pursuing truth is destined to fail far worse than any division that comes while ignoring the pursuit of truth....

Keeping a weekly Sabbath just might be the gift of grace we desperately need....

Christians can pray with the expectation of seeing God’s kingdom come day by day....

The Christian response to authority ought to demonstrate our confidence in the One who occupies the highest place of authority above all....

If you cannot gather with your church right now, be sure you do all you can to mitigate the risk to your soul....

The Bible calls us to live in the reality that the most consequential prophecies have already been fulfilled....

How we vote is a matter of Christian liberty requiring us to develop our biblical convictions and acting in a manner worthy of our calling as Christians....

Christians are called to a bold, unhurried life that refuses to bow to the unhealthy busyness of the world....

God sees the idols of our heart and will tolerate no rival. He loves us too much to do that....

How good it is for God to require us to have as our God nothing less than the best....

The Ten Commandments require a love that will inevitably lead to their fulfillment....

The power we need to see real change take place in our lives is the assurance that God’s love for us is secure....

The grace of God can be fully seen and applied to our lives only as we begin to grasp the inseparable realities of Christ’s person and work....

God requires an obedience that is unachievable without the Savior....

The Bible calls both husbands and wives to be homemakers....

Evangelical Christians should learn from some basic principles that guided King and the Civil Rights Movement in its earliest days....

He who is one with God in deity has become one with us in our humanity....

A new creation brought about by the incarnate Word of God is the only hope for our eternal salvation....

We should come to Christ whose blood washes away our sin and whose body was completely broken and wasted to remove any last hint of our reproach....

The Bible exhorts church members to do what they can to minimize the hardship and to maximize the joy of ministry for their pastors....

The world is not headed for obliteration but for the liberation of the new creation....

Once the soul has been fully satisfied with God, there is only eternal pleasure....

The church ought to baptize only those who profess faith and are unbreakable members of the new covenant....

We must not make too much of baptism, but we must not make too little of it either....

Just as in salvation, God is the primary actor in the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper....

Three ways we can not only fuel our prayer lives but also become more fruitful in prayer....

We imitate God’s generosity when we ourselves enter into his lavish gift by faith....

God saved us when it could only be explained as an act of unilateral grace....

To freely confess that we are the most despicable moral creatures on earth encourages us to hold on to Christ as our only hope....

The good news upon which Christianity is based is true whether anyone believes it or not....

Would people repent if God sent a messenger back from the dead?...

What are Missional Families and why are they essential to the ministry of the local church?...

Christians must prioritize the kingdom of God over every kingdom of this world although this will make them appear less patriotic in the eyes of the non-Christian world....

Boredom might be our clue that we have lost the ability to delight in the ordinary goodness of God....

The ground for assurance is always what Christ has done and never what we have done....

Just because you feel affection for someone doesn't mean you don't feel superior to them....

John Perkins and the conviction that only the church and the love of Christ can overcome racial injustice....

What if this was the year that you and I could witness an extraordinary work of God if only we would faithfully ask him for it?...

What we believe about eternal security determines our beliefs on the doctrines of grace....

Even if we are externally doing the “right things,” we might find sin lurking in the motives and attitudes of the heart....

We need God’s commands as much as we need his comfort....

The doctrine of the Trinity is mind-blowing, but it is essential that Christians know the doctrine well....

Our disbelief and disobedience ends up teaching us the most glorious truths we must believe about God....

Before we can appeal to the Bible's teaching or ethics, we need to ask and answer this important question: How do we know that the Bible is the Word of God? ...

Because God is the first and best of beings, we either live in this reality or live in a fantasy....

Remorse and resolution are easily confused with repentance....

There is a purpose for rest, a purpose we need to work hard to achieve....

The second commandment urges us to resist making God by our imagination....

Ambition, diligence, and hard work are vices and not virtues when they are driving the building of our own glorious kingdom....

Let us commit ourselves to the work of careful meditation of the Word of God....

How do we explain Jesus's apparent lack of truthfulness in John 7?...

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