We must remember that the tree doesn’t eat the fruit; others eat it. We must also remember that fruit isn’t the same as results, because fruit has in it the seed for more fruit. Fruit comes from life,...
We may not understand all of His purposes and ways, but that isn’t important. We know that He is working all things together for our good and His glory, and that is all that matters.
We have no control over the weather or over the traffic on the expressway or over the things other people say and do. The person whose happiness depends on ideal circumstances is going to be miserable...
To serve God means to fear Him, obey Him, and worship only Him. It means to love Him and fix your heart upon Him, obeying Him because you want to and not because you have to.
This introduces a second reason why we must know who God is and what His name is: We were created to worship and glorify Him.
The will of God ought to be a source of strength and satisfaction to the children of God, just as if they sat down to a sumptuous feast.
The wicked go through life thinking only of getting, but God’s people go through life thinking of giving, of sharing with others, and of showing mercy. God has blessed us. We have inherited everything...
The way to God was opened, not by the life of Jesus or the example of Jesus, not even by the teaching of Jesus, but by the death of Jesus on the cross. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just...
The suretyship of Jesus is the assurance that God will keep his salvation covenant with his people. God has made a covenant of grace with us through the Lord Jesus Christ. By so much more Jesus has be...
The sacrificial death of the Son wasn’t an accident, it was an appointment (Acts 2:23; 4:27–28), for He was slain from the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:
The primary task of the church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God, said Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. The decadent periods and eras in the history of the church have always...
The arrangement of chapters 40—66 is not accidental. The Book of Consolation is divided into three sections; each focuses on a different Person of the Godhead and a different attribute of God. Chapter...
That this complex universe should appear by accident out of nothing from a big bang is as probable as the works of Shakespeare resulting from an explosion in a printing plant.
Satan is a liar and the father of lies (John 8:44), and human nature is such that many people find it easier to tell lies than the truth.
No doubt you have heard people say, or perhaps you have said yourself, Christmas is for children. Take a long look at this group standing in the temple and you will never say it again. You have Mary,...
Like every good teacher and preacher, he turned the ear into an eye and helped people to see spiritual truth. He knew that the mind is not a debating chamber—it is a picture gallery.
It was bad enough that Judah rebelled against God by trusting Egypt instead of trusting Jehovah, and depending on money instead of on God’s power, but they even went so far as to completely reject the...
It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.
Isaiah is the prophet we need to hear today as he cries out God’s message above the din of world upheaval, Comfort, yes, comfort My people! (40:1 NKJV). The English word comfort comes from two Latin w...
In Greek the name Christ is χριστός (christos). The first letter looks like the English letter X. Every vocation has its shorthand, and those in the church used the letter chi (χ) to represent Christ...