Christian, You Must Seek Your Glory (From God, Not From Others)
We as Christians have largely forgotten the goal of our glory. We emphasize bringing glory of God. “Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).…
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The Ultimate Purpose of Christian Parenting
God in the Bible instructs parents to lead their children to know and love the Lord (Deuteronomy 6:4-9). He charges parents to raise up their kids in the “way they…
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We All Struggle With Wanting Praise, So What Does It Mean to Seek God’s Glory and Not Your Own?
This past weekend I preached a sermon from John 5:30-47. The message peaked in 5:44 where Jesus firmly warned his listeners, “How can you believe, when you receive glory from…
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“Natural” Analogies Illustrate God
God organized nature in certain ways to teach us about who he is. Specifically, the reason I’m writing this post is thinking about the contrast between light and darkness. I meditated a bit on this idea in a previous post, but here I want to consider that God is the one who invented light and it’s counterpart, darkness, for a reason. Such inventions illuminate…
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God Is Happy: What It Means for Our Joy
Have you recently stood amazed at how happy God is? God isn’t frivolous, shallow, flippant, lacking in seriousness nor weightiness. He is almighty and fearful. Let’s be clear on that. But God is happy. Even hearing so may seem a tad strange. But recently I found encouragement in this truth: God is happy, at this moment, with himself, with all he’s doing, with his world…
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Splendor and Sin: How Seeing God’s Light Shows Us Our Darkness
After being in a dark room, we can’t help squinting when a bright light is illumined. Staggered, our eyes try to adjust as the brightness exposes how dim it’s been. We pay attention to the light we’re seeing, but simultaneously, we can’t help but focus on our struggle assimilating to the light…
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24 Comparisons Between C.S. Lewis and Jonathan Edwards
I briefly want to compare and contrast C.S. Lewis and Jonathan Edwards. I read both this year, and enjoyed them almost equally. They had some similar traits, but also were quite different. For the sake of my own ease, I’ll make a bullet list of similarities and differences—twelve of each…
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Why Fighting Worldliness Is So Serious (And Not Legalistic)
In the edited book, Worldliness, C.J. Mahaney explains in the opening chapter why worldliness is so serious. After showing the importance of loving Jesus above all else biblically, and after debunking the idea that fighting worldliness is legalism, he ends the first chapter of the book with a powerful, brief sentence summarizing it all. He writes…
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Jesus’ Love Displayed in How He Sets Things Up to Love Us
What do we usually think it means for Jesus to love us? How do we usually imagine Jesus acts in order to love his people? I immediately would answer that he shows his love in his sacrificial dying for us in our place on the cross. This is the gospel message. And it is true…
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