As I type this week’s devotional, Baxter, my wee Rat Terrier has just plonked himself down beside my foot. He likes to be near me. On my part, His furry pressure on my calf lends a reassuring warmth to the room.
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It gives me very great pleasure this weekend to introduce to you a young friend of mind, John Prabhakar. We will welcome John to our pulpit this Sunday Evening. John is a gifted preacher and intends to head with his wife, Kelley Beth, back to his home city of Bangalore to begin a church planting works in the heart of that bustling city.
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Happiness isn’t to be found in learning to control our environment, our circumstances, or the people we love. Most all of these things lie forever outside of our control. Happiness is to be found in harnessing the one thing we can control: ourselves.
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God could have made salvation difficult, but he didn’t. It’s as easy as speaking: Just say the word and you’ll be saved.
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Every culture needs virtue. It is the oil that keeps our liberties and our rights flowing together decently and kindly.
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In our covenanter this week, our pastor looks at the ways (the beautiful ways) following Christ will scar the Christian.
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The key mark of a theology of glory is the penchant for judging spiritual things by their natural appearance — how they look to the eyes of the flesh. The Theologian of glory assumes, if these things impress me, well they must impress God! If they look glorious in my eyes, then they must be really be glorious.
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Following a crucified savior will cost you. It will cost you everything that you are, everything you have, and everything that you hold dear in this life...Forsaking Christ is not a choice you can afford to make. Fighting against Temptation is not a fight you can afford to lose. There will be hell to pay if you do?
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Life on earth was not easy for Jesus. He was tempted in all things as we are yet without sin. Now we can easily underestimate the agony of these temptations-- as if it was easier for Him than for us. He, after all, had no sin nature to contend with. He never wanted to sin (To desire to sin is itself sinful). Perhaps you think of Jesus facing temptation as Mr. Teflon: No temptation sticks to Him. And so, you might be forgiven for thinking, it was easy for Jesus.
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I don't know about you, but I think I need a lot more "Turn the other cheek" in my home towards my wife and my children. How are things going in your household?
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Not long after we were married, with a glint in her eye, Catherine began reminding me one of the fundamental rules of marriage (from a wife’s perspective): “What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine.”
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A great part of the Christian life begins in the mind. What pains are you taking to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ?
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Sometimes it is only as the Lord becomes the only help we have, that we realize He is the only help we need. In their calls to worship, the Reformers very often would begin their services with words from Psalm 124:8, "Our Help is in the Name of the Lord who made heaven and earth."
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What will death be like for the Christian?
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We all know John Owen’s famous dictum: “Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you.” But how is the Christian to go about doing this?
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Love is the acid test of the Christian life. Paul says, if we have not love it doesn’t matters how well we speak (1Cor 13:1), how much we know or how much we say we believe (v.2), or even how much we are willing to sacrifice (v.3). Without love, these things are empty facades...
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What does forgiveness look like in healthy Christian relationships? This is often a touchy subject, especially when feelings are hurt by the raw welt of fresh sin. It is easy to say, “Forgive you!?” But do we really mean it, and what are we supposed to mean when we do?
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Romans 8, verse 1 is one of those precious verses that says so much to so many Christians. But are you reading it properly?
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Hurting people hurt others and are easily hurt by them. This dynamic is never more true and seldom more painful than in the dynamic of marriage.
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More than an idea to consider, more than facts to comprehend, Truth is a person to trust.
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