King Josiah was the godliest of the Israelite kings. “Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his…
Someday you will stand before God. What feeling did that statement evoke in you? Due to our innate feeling of sin and of God’s God-ness (or “holiness”), we fear. But…
The apostle Paul—with all his devotion, leadership of churches, sufferings for Christ, brilliant theological letters, and missionary work in unreached areas—was saved by the same way as the thief on…
“Images have always become substitutes for God, and no age makes more images than our age,” writes Tony Reinke in his recent book Competing Spectacles (117). He’s right, but we…
Right away I’ll make this quite personal: For the last few years now I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating with anxiety. I’ve tried to track…
The previous post discussed the two opposite ways we can receive God’s gifts. One one hand, God’s gifts can (ironically) lead us to turn from God, as we cherish the…
When we receive gifts and blessings from God, there are two opposite ways our hearts can go. The gift is the same, but the paths lead to drastically different results.…
The previous post centered on how we must be careful to not wrongly emphasize eternal life in our evangelism to the point that we make Christ a mere means instead…
Many of us are familiar with the Romans Road style of evangelism, as displayed here. With supporting Bible verses, this evangelistic technique attempts to show a way to receive the…
Tim Chester, in his 2018 book Enjoying God, uses the term “fathered world” frequently. It’s a helpful term. He uses it to explain how the world we live in—and each…