Dear Christian, we seem too often to wrongly think that everything and everyone must align to please us, or all is loss and everything is a failure. This is painful idolatry and must be replaced with sincere worship.
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When Jesus changes your heart, your motives and affections and desires change.
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People wonder all the time if they are really a believer. Sometimes other people see a person who says they are Christian and wonder if that is a true profession of faith. This can be for any number of reasons. But there is one specific way found in 2 Timothy 2:19 where are you can know if a person is truly a Christian.
Keep ReadingLet’s pattern our baptisms and church membership as closely to the scriptural pattern as we can. Let's link baptism and church membership more closely. Let's see them as part of a unified process to glorify God, build up believers, and reach the world.
Keep Reading As we live a Christ-honoring life… Pure gospel living looks different than posing for pictures It stands in stark contrast to life lived under lights A sovereign God changes our motives The authoritative Word renews our minds
Keep ReadingAs I am alive, raised, and seated with Christ by God’s grace… 5 ongoing outcomes I observe about God’s grace towards me.
Keep Reading Has life put a lot of mileage on you? Are you weighed down by the toll it has taken? Are you weary? Are you troubled? Do you feel hopeless? There is hope of forgiveness in Jesus.
Keep ReadingMay 4
2021
We just finished a one-year-plus verse-by-verse preaching series through Ecclesiastes! Only our sovereign God, who providentially orchestrates everything, could have it start when Covid19 stopped life, and end when things are somewhat getting back to normal. Wow.
Apr 25
2021
What if you are the one who seeks to be pleasing to God in all your ways and you cling to the Word every day? What if you are the person that’s in the Word all the time? You know you aren’t perfect but you want to please God and you are living your life carefully and for God’s glory.
Jan 13
2021
5 ways to make the most of the opportunity at Thanksgiving.
Dec 25
2020
It’s a rather un-Christmassy Christmas, so here’s an UnChrismassy Christmas poem.
God intends for Christian parents to teach their children the Word of God, systematically reading through Scripture and explaining it to them, teaching them the faith from the earliest age and praying in dependence on the Lord.
Nov 6
2020
As a Christian, I am a citizen of heaven. I belong heart, soul, mind, and strength to the Lord Jesus Christ. I am saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, as seen in Scripture alone, for the glory of God alone. As an American Christian, I am a citizen of the USA.
In Ecclesiastes 7:1-6 we see that death is a preacher giving us crucial life-lessons. We do not eagerly anticipate funerals, yet we learn from them.
Jun 2
2020
In a season of international pandemic, we now face national waves of injustice and unrest. We are seeing what an invisible virus can do. And every day, we are seeing what sin in human hearts can do.
May 19
2020
Christian, God will bring you through a thousand sorrows to make you the humble servant He wants you to be.
May 10
2020
God provides us with multiple conduits of comfort in Christ. Some additional thoughts on 2 Cor. 1:3-5.