Sometimes, the best way God can teach us that we need His help is by letting us do without it for a while. After that, we’re in a better position to be grateful for the help when it does come. And it surely will come, when God sees the time is right.
As in Jesus’ day, people today still “come to Jesus” for a confusing range of reasons. So let’s ask this: in the New Testament, who were those who came to ...
We can’t receive the benefits of the gospel ourselves and not want to do something to share those benefits with other people. In some kind of personal way, we should ...
Learning God’s character is a growth process that takes time. In Christ, we “are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another” (2 Corinthians 3:18). ...
We would not have been baptized into Christ if we had not decided to die with Him. It was a choice. And our old self will not stay dead if ...
There is something special about the act of baptism. Whether we understand God’s reasons or not, He has made baptism the doorway separating the old from the new. In the ...
If broken trust in God is the root of sin, then for the problem of sin to be fixed, trust will have to be put back in its rightful place. ...
If we turn away from the gospel because of the costliness of the love involved in discipleship, there is nothing left but lesser loves — counterfeits that offer little more ...
In a “feel-good” age, it is hard for us to see that our first response to the gospel must be grief. Yet if the gospel is about sin, we are ...
We often reject ideas as being “untrue” for no reason except that we don’t want them to be true. But the more painful a truth may be to accept (at ...
Hope is a powerful thing. And one reason the gospel of Christ is the greatest of all messages is that it offers the greatest of all hopes. Here is the ...
In the New Testament, there are two phases or stages in obeying the gospel: first, we accept God’s forgiveness on His terms, and second, we live the rest of our ...
The fact that our salvation is by grace does not mean the gospel requires no response. It is a message that must be responded to, and in the absence of ...