Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live...like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, [these lone rangers...
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. God’s thoughts are indeed higher than ours, but when he reduces his thoughts into wor...
As a biblical Christian, I must not only affirm the inspiration of God’s Word; I must also consciously critique everything else in light of Scripture (otherwise all else will unconsciously conform my...
A steward manages assets for the owner’s benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It’s his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry o...
When God provides more money we often think, This is a blessing. Yes, but it would be just as scriptural to say, This is a test. Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It’s his prov...
We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s...
We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord). —Edward T. Welch
Thomas Watson (1620–1686), a Puritan preacher and author, said, He has no design upon us, but to make us happy. . . . Who should be cheerful, if not the people of God?
There is no one human individual or group who can fully bear or manifest all that is involved in the image of God, so that there is a sense in which that image is collectively possessed. The image of...
Sometimes we read Scripture about rejoicing or trusting and think, Easy to say, but you’re not facing what I am. But few people have faced conditions as dire as Habakkuk, with the impending destructio...
Romans 8 contains a powerful theology of suffering. There’s the groaning of those dying without hope, and in contrast, the groaning of those in childbirth. Both processes are painful, yet they are ver...
Perry continued, his voice even but firm as granite; Do you prefer the easy platitudes? You said you didn't. How dare you speak about God like He's some frivolous clown? Do you think you're the only o...
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different t...
Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we’re smart, we’ll live not for the dot, but...
Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?
If you are looking for a religion centered around yourself, Ben, I must agree that Christianity is a poor choice.
If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord.
God is the ultimate salvage artist. He loves to restore things to their original condition—and make them even better.
God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing. —C. S. Lewis
Forgiveness is not automatic. It’s conditioned upon confession: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). Christ...