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- Can’t You Let Me Just Attend? · 9 minDavid Mathis | Anxiety plagues our generation, but what if one of our greatest fears proves our greatest remedy? God designed covenant commitment to bring strength and stability…
- The Tyranny of Preferences · 9 minClinton Manley | Our preferences might seem minor, especially when disguised as simple requests. But left alone and unexamined, our desires can become tiny tyrannies in our lives…
- Worldliness and the Friendship of God · 12 minMarshall Segal | Do you love the world more than the one who made it? Worldliness may entice, but it promises only to deceive, defile, disappoint, and eventually destroy us.
- Fruitlessness and the Fear of God · 12 minGreg Morse | Must we bear fruit when we have God’s grace? The parable of the barren fig tree warns us not to squander God’s mercy.
- Laziness and the Gladness of God · 9 minScott Hubbard | Our sinful flesh primes us for laziness. Yet in Christ, we can take up even our dirty dishes and unbalanced checkbooks with gladness and strength.
- Life on the Seas of Death · 14 minGreg Morse | Living can feel like a ship adrift in a raging sea, no anchor, no harbor, no hope. But Moses helps us navigate the chaotic waters by anchoring our hope in God.
- Gluttony and the Fullness of God · 11 minClinton Manley | Do you seek in food what you can only find in God? Gluttony deceives by promising from food what only the fullness of Christ can provide.
- Take Up the Fight Against Small Sins · 9 minDavid Mathis | Too often, we dismiss sins like gluttony, gossip, and laziness as minor. But the Spirit hates the sins we often tolerate. And he’s ready to help us put them to…
- Christ Gives Sleep to His Beloved · 12 minDavid Mathis | Sleep may feel like an inconvenience, a pause in your productivity. But what if every bedtime provides an opportunity to pursue joy in God?
- Christ Sweetens Every Friendship · 8 minMarshall Segal | How does Christ work through friendships? A good friend picks you up, keeps you close, fights your fights, and guards your soul.
- Christ Frees Parents to Play · 9 minScott Hubbard | Parents, what kind of God do your kids see reflected in the way you treat them? Would they ever get the impression that God is happy beyond our wildest imagination?
- Preach Sermons, Not Commentaries · 15 minGreg Morse | Good preaching requires far more than commentary on the text. It marshals unity, order, and proportion to bring God’s word to bear on human hearts.
- Christ Satisfies Those Who Evangelize · 11 minGreg Morse | Many Christians view evangelism as a duty to be endured, but what if proclaiming the gospel is a joy to be pursued?
- Thou Shalt Not Hide from Neighbors · 10 minGreg Morse | When so many obligations demand our attention, we might avoid engaging with neighbors. But love for God and love for neighbor go hand in hand.
- Does Joy in God Touch All of Life? · 9 minClinton Manley | Joy in God touches far more than just Sunday morning. It touches the kitchen and the classroom, the bedroom and the office. Joy touches everything.
- Confess and Forsake · 13 minGreg Morse | God offers free forgiveness to all who will confess and forsake their sins — meager terms for tremendous mercy. What are you waiting for?
- The War Against the Woman’s Offspring · 12 minDavid Mathis | Abortion is not simply wrong. For those who have God’s word, and observe Satan’s devices, abortion is profoundly, diabolically anti-God and anti-Christ.
- The Demons Who Devour Babies · 10 minGreg Morse | Throughout history, cosmic powers have demanded the sacrifice of children on their altars. Those demons are still active and behind abortion today.
- The God Who Defies the Spirit of Abortion · 14 minClinton Manley | The spirit of abortion stands against the heart of God. Abortion sacrifices the weak to the will of the strong; God sacrifices himself to rescue the weak.
- The Ambition That Destroys Children · 14 minScott Hubbard | For all the differences between Pharaoh’s infanticide and America’s abortion, both end in a heap of dead children. And often, both arise from the same ungodly…
- Have Babies and Don’t Kill Them · 11 minMarshall Segal | Recent pro-life decisions have not forced abortions to fade away. When our country kills children by the millions, what should be our response?
- The Sweetest Reasons to Read the Bible · 11 minClinton Manley | When the allures of the world tempt us with ease and comfort, Scripture holds out better promises in every way. Taste and see that God’s word is good.
- ‘I’ve Lost My Taste for God’s Word’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible · 10 minGreg Morse | There are many things we can approach casually, but God’s word is not among them. The Maker of worlds and Redeemer of souls deserves far more than flippant attention.
- ‘I Don’t Understand What I Read’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible · 11 minBrian Tabb | What can you do when reading the Bible feels more bewildering than edifying? Pray for illumination. Ask questions for insight. Read books for instruction.
- ‘I Don’t Need to Hear God Today’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible · 8 minGerrit Scott Dawson | When you sit down in front of God’s word, does pride pull up a chair too? How we respond when we hear from God reveals much about our hearts.
- Are You Tempted to Leave Jesus? · 12 minGreg Morse | If you are growing bored with daily bread, longing for the world’s pleasures, and grumbling against God, beware — that is the path to apostasy.
- ‘I’m Too Distracted When I Read’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible · 11 minScott Hubbard | When you sit down to read God’s word and a hundred distractions flit through your mind, how do you fight for attention?
- ‘I’m Not Feeling It Today’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible · 9 minDavid Mathis | We will experience few, if any, moments of spontaneous joy with friends if we don’t make a habit of being together. The same is true of our relationship with God…
- The Real Reasons We Don’t Read the Bible · 11 minMarshall Segal | Why don’t we read the Bible more often? Many of us say we’re too busy, but what if the real reasons for our neglect go much deeper than that?
- Humbled to Be an American: A Hopeful Exile at 250 · 12 minDavid Mathis | At the 250th anniversary of their nation, American Christians have two reasons to add humility to their gratitude: America’s party spirit and the church’s greater…
- Pornography and the War for the World · 11 minGreg Morse | Too often, we imagine pornography as an individual sin, but the cumulative effects are cosmic. Satan loves to use lust to cripple God’s army.
- Faith Never Prays, ‘If You Can’ · 12 minGreg Morse | No problem is too big for God, but our faith may be too small. Sometimes the biggest barrier to freedom is a prayer that begins “If you can . . .”
- Ask Whatever I Wish? God’s Unblushing Promises for Prayer · 11 minDavid Mathis | “Ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” Why would God attach such a staggering promise to prayer? Because he really wants us to pray.
- Submission Holds Heaven’s Attention · 14 minScott Hubbard | When you imagine a submissive wife, what kind of woman comes to mind? Is your picture embarrassing — or is it beautiful?
- Sin Will Find You Out · 15 minGreg Morse | No matter how hidden sin seems to be, it will always find you. You can’t run from the consequences, but you can hide in Christ from the condemnation.
- When Friends Fail and the Earth Gives Way · 11 minGreg Morse | When you find yourself in one of life’s caves, shut off from the sun, forsaken by friends, confused and full of sorrow, know that God makes his kings in caves.
- Find Heroes Better Than Harry Potter · 8 minDavid Mathis | For as helpful as fictional heroes can be, Christian parents have no lack of real-life heroes to hold before our kids. Jonathan Edwards is one of them.
- Tomorrow May Be Too Late: Testimonies of the Damned · 14 minGreg Morse | If the damned could speak, they would warn us that delay is deadly. The gospel offer is urgent; tomorrow may prove too late.
- Artificial Preaching: The Temptation of AI · 15 minGreg Morse | Ministers desire to be fruitful, but the means matter. What can Joshua’s battles at Ai teach leaders about their use of AI?
- Jesus Raged? The Righteous Anger of God Incarnate · 14 minDavid Mathis | Our anger easily gets corrupted by our sin. But as the life of Jesus shows, human anger can also be holy, a flare of righteous love for God and man.
- Keep Praying for a Breakthrough · 12 minScott Hubbard | However long you’ve been praying for some deep, God-honoring desire, don’t lose heart. Keep asking, seeking, and knocking. Keep praying for a breakthrough.
- This Little Light of Mine: Why Don’t I Let It Shine? · 9 minGreg Morse | Our Lord tells all his followers, “You are the light of the world.” Yet are we too timid, too modest, or too lazy to shine as bright as we should?
- The Trial of Daily Bread · 15 minGreg Morse | We may not walk through a physical wilderness, but pain still tempts us to ask, “Will God provide?” Yes, he will — just what we need, just when we need it.
- Lead at a Pace They Can Follow · 10 minGreg Morse | When it comes to shepherding a family, faster is not always better. Wise leaders know whom they lead and guide them at a pace they can manage.
- Take That Risk for Jesus · 10 minScott Hubbard | Jesus calls all of us to follow him, but he leads each of us down a peculiar path. Only by following Christ, not the crowd, can you become all he made you to be.
- No Sin Is Worth Hell · 12 minGreg Morse | At the final judgment, the pleasures of sinners will be forever forgotten, and the poverty of believers will be swallowed up by eternal life. Which will you choose?
- The Voice of ‘A Great Awakening’ · 20 minGreg Morse | What kind of voices might God use today to awaken souls? Voices like George Whitefield’s: consecrated, capable, convicting, courageous, and quickening.
- The Day Death Tried to Swallow Life · 10 minClinton Manley | Easter Sunday was a very bad day for Death. Just three days after he swallowed the Lord of life, Jesus broke through Death’s teeth and doomed him to die.
- He Came, He Died, He Conquered · 10 minGreg Morse | What do you see when you look at the cross? The eyes of the world see only defeat and death, but the eyes of heaven witness glory and triumph.
- The Agony of Sin and Love · 8 minDavid Mathis | As the cross approaches, our desire to imitate Jesus stops in its tracks and stands in awe. Maundy Thursday is not for dreaming of our love but for marveling at his.
