Thanksgiving is worry’s kryptonite.
While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God’s mercy and grace.
Truly, God’s plan of redemption is about more than me and you and our neighbor down the street. It’s about men and women from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth becoming a part of His covenant community.
Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn’t need a makeover.
Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.
If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.
Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’
Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.
The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.
I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.
I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends – friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
Godliness is sexy in a way that physical attraction can never be.
If someone doesn’t have much use for praising Him now, it’s foolish to think they’re ready for heaven.
The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.
The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.
The idolatry the exists in a man’s heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.
Don’t create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.
God’s response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.