Addicted to Works

Walter Marshall, a Puritan from the late 1600′s, accurately diagnoses what many times becomes our routine of Christian living and how it steals the joy God intends for us as believers in Christ: By nature, you are completely addicted to a legal method of salvation. Even after you become a Christian by believing the Gospel, [...]

Be Perfect as Your Father Is

When men will be saviors of themselves, when they look for righteousness by the law, Christ bids them go and keep the commandments…and this He does to humble them and bring them to Himself. But if men are humble and broken by a sight of their sins, then, without mention of the law at all, [...]

King Me: What Every Son Wants From His Father

Thanks to Dave Artman for this book review, just in time for Father’s Day. An attractive attribute to the book is the name and photo on the cover. The name is suggestively insightful as to what one would expect to find in its pages, but there is so much more than just the obvious. This is not [...]

A Secret Worth Sharing

I will admit It is nearly impossible for me to keep a secret from my wife. If I buy a gift for her birthday or Christmas I had better buy it the day before I give it to her; otherwise, I’ll blow the surprise of the gift. The secret of the LORD is with them [...]

Ideas on Becoming a Servant

I am struck with shallowness that I think, meditate and apply specific texts of Scripture. One such passage is Mark 10:43-44 But whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. What does that look like? Does it simply mean I [...]

7 Suggestion for Encouraging Good Preaching

We’ve all heard good preaching and not-so-good preaching. Here are seven suggestions for encouraging good preaching. Pray for the preachers. Pray specifically that they will work hard at the Bible passages (1 Timothy 5.17) and preach them faithfully, passionately and in a way that engages the hearers. From time to time, tell the preachers you [...]

A Christian Response to a Doctrinal Difference

This morning I read in my Bible the following passage. I was struck by how two godly Christians acted and reacted to one brother’s doctrinal difference. And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the [...]

Go Ahead, Be the Salt

Matthew 5:13  Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Christ reminds believers that we are the “salt of the earth.” Salt has always [...]

A Steward of Trust

Scandals within one of the largest religions in the world has dominated headlines off and on for the past five years or so. Regularly the new reports other well-known religious personalities who have been ousted from their positions because of questionable ethics or morals. As is often the case the greatest aftershock from a breach [...]

How Do You Please God?

How do you please God? It is often times easy to see the difference between irreligion and the Gospel, but what is most dangerous (for me, at least) is the difference between religion and the Gospel. HT: Matthew Hoskinson