English minister David Clarkson preached one of the most comprehensive and searching sermons on counterfeit gods ever written.113 About idolatry he said, Though few will own it, nothing is more common...
En virtud de Su obra redentora, Jesús es a la vez nuestro Amigo y nuestro Prometido, y ese es el modelo que ha de imperar en el matrimonio cristiano. Marido y mujer tienen que ser al mismo tiempo aman...
Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don’t obey God to get God himself—in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him. So
Change my heart so I can walk in your footsteps. Amen.
But this is an impossibility.23 You cannot get an identity through self-recognition; it must come in a great measure from others.
But the Bible locates the root issue as our separation from God.
But second, this truth removes general fear and anxiety when life goes wrong. We know it hasn’t gone wrong at all! If God works in all things, it means his plan includes what we would call little or s...
Building our lives on something besides God not only hurts us if we don’t get the desires of our hearts, but also if we do.
Are you withholding your full trust in God until you get an explanation for some bad thing that happened to you? In light of Jesus’ undeserved suffering for you, are you willing to let go of that dema...
According to the Bible, the evil of the world ultimately stems from the self-centeredness, self-righteousness, and self-absorption of every human heart.
You hold either position, however, your life will be characterized by fear and insecurity, because you will never feel like you are being quite good enough; or it will be marked by pride and disdain f...
When you try to get payment through revenge the evil does not disappear. Instead it spreads, and it spreads most tragically of all into you and your own character.
The gospel is the A to Z of the Christian life. It is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live as part of the kingdom. It is the way Christ transforms people, churches and communit...
Is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances. It is certain that they lived in the midst of many dangers and hardships...
His judgment of the world was purposeful. Even as he judged the world with suffering, he had in view a plan for the redemption of all things. God judged the world in hope of a final redemption from ev...
Your work will be only partially successful, on your best days, in bringing that world about. But inevitably the whole tree that you seek—the beauty, harmony, justice, comfort, joy, and community—will...
Yes, we should pray regardless of feelings, and yet we should do everything we can to engage and warm our hearts, because prayer is a lifting of the heart to God (Lam 3:41).
Work has dignity because it is something that God does and because we do it in God’s place, as his representatives . We learn not only that work has dignity in itself, but also that all kinds of work...
Work and achievement, without the peace of God in our lives through the Spirit, will never be enough.
While anger is not a sin in and of itself, it should be a passing thing, directed without excess to solve a problem, resulting in calm at the end (29:11). In the same way, God’s anger is for a moment,...