christianity

God’s redemptive revelation in the Holy Scriptures is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Saviour is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God. To me this is a plausible explanation of all that is best out of Christ.

What, then, is marriage for? It is for helping each other to become our future glory-selves, the new creations that God will eventually make us.

Sometimes we try so hard to be good that we aren’t real. The result is functional deism, where we are separated from God. The real you doesn’t encounter the real God.

Desire and surrender are the perfect balance to praying.

If even the preacher cannot tell (or has not bothered to determine) how the sermon’s truths relate to life, then people not only are unlikely to make the connection but also will wonder why they bothered to listen.

Tom Landry, coach of the Dallas Cowboys football team for most of three decades, said, “The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don’t want to do in order to achieve what they’ve always wanted to be.”[5] In much the same way, Christians are called to make themselves, by the Spirit’s power, do what they would not naturally do—practice

It’s your heart’s experience of the Father’s love for you that will change your life, not just once but again and again, and make you dangerous to the enemy. Woe to him if you get a grip on who you really are! That’s why Satan does everything he can to keep you from trusting and enjoying the truth. Because once you do, the training has begun for a

Endings matter. How many books have you read, movies have you seen, or TV series have you watched and loved that were ruined by a lousy ending? We don’t want our otherwise strong sermons to be weakened by sloppy endings.

The purpose of all methods of Bible intake is to “keep it,” that is, to do what God says and thereby develop in Christlikeness. But the method of intake Jesus encourages in this verse is hearing God’s Word.