When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace
What would induce God to change His mind? Perhaps new information, some knowledge He lacks until we communicate it to Him for His consideration. However, the Bible tells us that when we come to our Ki...
What is true of Peter is true of all of us: we fall in private before we ever fall in public.
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God? Every Christian should have a passion to please God. We are to delight in honoring Him. It shoul...
What did the Messiah need to do in order to be the Lamb of God, in order to make an atonement for the people of Israel? We know that Jesus came to die for our sins, but why did He not simply come down...
We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run...
We see that God called the nation of Israel His vine. He planted and tended it, and He expected it to bear fruit to all nations (see Ps. 80; Isa. 5; Jer. 2:2 1).
We live in a culture that embraces pluralism and relativism, and we are told every (lay that proselytizing people or trying to convert people to Christianity is taboo. But the Lord Himself was sent by...
We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior.
We do well to remember that only one Man has ever spoken infallibly—our Lord Jesus, who alone is Head of His church. Let us receive His Word—the Scriptures—as the only infallible communication from Go...
We do not want to take credit for our evil choices. We sometimes try to blame them on God, just as Adam did when he said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I at...
We affirm that the written Word in its entirety is revelation given by God. We deny that the Bible is merely a witness to revelation, or only becomes revelation in encounter, or depends on the respons...
Was Paul unloving when he disputed daily in the marketplace about the things of God (Acts 17:17)? Was Jesus unloving when He contradicted the teaching of the Pharisees? Were the prophets of ancient Is...
Very early in my tenure with St. Andrew’s, I determined that I should adopt the ancient Christian practice of lectio continua, continuous expositions, in my preaching. This method of preaching verse-b...
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself. This sort of unbelief is destructive to the church and to the people of God.
Ultimately the only answer God gave to job was a revelation of Himself. It was as if God said to him, Job, I am your answer. Job was not asked to trust a plan but a person, a personal God who is sover...
True prayer presupposes an attitude of humble submission and adoration to the Almighty God.
Todo tiene una causa, y la causa última, como hemos visto, es Dios.
Todo lo que Dios hace es en primer lugar para su gloria y en segundo lugar para nuestro beneficio. Oramos porque Dios nos ordena que oremos, porque eso lo glorifica, y porque nos beneficia.
To be spiritually dead is to be worldly. It is to buy into and follow slavishly the values and customs of the secular culture. Not only do the spiritually dead follow the course of this world, they fo...