In today’s devotional we ask an all important question: How is our conscience? Or put another way: How is our soul doing with God? Is it raising any particular area of alarm? If it is, we need to get after it. Ignoring such a voice is neither safe nor sound behavior! Ask Luther...
Read MoreDoes God have feelings, emotions, and affections? This question has engaged the finest minds of Christendom for 2000 years. How might you answer this question?
In this blog, see how the focus lands on a question—the blasphemous question that King Nebuchadnezzar asks: “And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
Read MoreThe first of a series of articles outline the historical, philosophical, and textual credibility of the Bible.
Read MoreListening to others pray is always instructive. Our prayer life is an outward reflection of our real theology. The way we pray, the frequency of our prayers, and their content and tone all reveal what we really think of God, what we want from Him, and how much we believe that we need Him.
Read MoreWhat is the Christian supposed to do when God does what you were sure He wouldn’t do?
Read MoreA devotional meditation taken from a poem by John Donne for when God’s gentle knockings just aren’t enough.
Read MoreI have said this before, but it bears repeating; namely, if I could recommend one discipline that would make the most radical difference in the lives of every member of our church, it would be to memorize Scripture. Why don’t you try it and see?
Read MoreHow to structure your prayer life…
Read MoreThe Christian lives between two worlds. He is, in fact, a little bit of heaven nestled amidst this present passing age. Alive in Christ and dead to sin, he is like a man who is in between moving houses.
Read MoreThe great Scottish Presbyterian minister, Thomas Chalmers, once said, "Prayer is the subtlest of all (God's ordained) causes. We cannot see it working. We do not understand how it works, but we ask on earth and the majesty of heaven gives.”
Read MoreThe whole sorry affair can’t but remind us of the White Witch’s brutal Narnia, a land where it was always winter and never Christmas? From the Witches perspective--Better to endure a black midwinter than the bleak one graced by the Savior’s rude arrival.
Read MoreIsn’t that a wonderful way to think of death? The date is set in indelible grace. But it’s not the Grim Reaper coming to take you to the grave. Jesus is coming to take you home to God, the Father.
Read MoreRecently, I stumbled across a tweet that really got me thinking: “To complain about God is a sin. To complain to God is a Psalm.”
Read MoreDid Paul claim to be writing Scripture when he wrote his letters?
Read MoreHow are we to judge tomorrow? A stairway to heaven or hell? Is history going anywhere?
Read MoreIn this, the first of a number of pieces, we will unpack the Five Points of Calvinism, or what more accurately could be called the Five Responses of the Orthodox Church to the errors of Jacobus Arminius, and his followers…
Read MoreAt the end of the 1541 edition of his Institutes, Calvin outlines the three habits of a healthy soul: self-denial, cross-bearing, and meditation on the future life.
Read MorePride has this effect upon us all; it turns us into glory thieves. Rather than directing all the glory to God, we bleed part of it off for ourselves.
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