The Hardest Word to Obey
Jon Bloom | Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself. Could any two commands be simpler and more beautiful, and yet so difficult to practice?
Nov 14, 2021•9 min
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Impatience Is a War for Control: How God Prepares Us to Wait
Marshall Segal | Nothing outside of us makes us impatient, and nothing in us can make us more patient. To wait well, we need a miracle from God.
Nov 12, 2021•12 min
Take the Hill: How Mission Brings Men Together
Greg Morse | The apostle Paul labored shoulder to shoulder with men in such a way that he could call them “fellow soldiers.” Do we have such men beside us?
Nov 11, 2021•11 min
Kindness in a World Gone Mad
David Mathis | It’s only human to respond in kind. But Christ calls his church to something more: respond in kindness.
Nov 10, 2021•13 min
Food Rules: How God Reshapes Our Appetites
Scott Hubbard | Some indulge their appetites, some deny their appetites, and some learn to follow Jesus in directing their appetites.
Nov 08, 2021•10 min
Courage for Normal Christians
Joe Rigney | Courage is not the character trait of super-Christians; it is the God-empowered gift of every child of God.
Nov 07, 2021•13 min
What Love Is Not: Four Ways We Avoid the Costs
Marshall Segal | What if we fail to love because we fail to see what love is? God shows us four subtle counterfeits we often seek.
Nov 05, 2021•14 min
Laziness Ruins Happiness: What Makes Diligence a Virtue
Jon Bloom | Diligence is not just about our self-discipline, our self-esteem, or our self-satisfaction. Diligence is about our joy in God.
Nov 04, 2021•9 min
Two Truths About the One Percent: How Important Is Corporate Worship?
David Mathis | The Sunday gathering may be the most important hour of the week, but it is also only one in 168. We are the church every hour of every day.
Nov 03, 2021•10 min
Sin Is Not Who You Are
Greg Morse | If you could see yourself how God sees you in Christ, you would have all you need to overcome any temptation.
Nov 02, 2021•9 min
The Reformation of English: How Tyndale’s Bible Transformed Our Language
Scott Hubbard | Not only did William Tyndale bring the word of God into English, but he brought English into the form we know and use today.
Oct 31, 2021•17 min
A Strange and Holy Calm: Holding Our Peace in an Age of Outbursts
David Mathis | If God, by all accounts and remembrances, is indeed slow to anger, how can his people not seek to be like him?
Oct 28, 2021•15 min
For God So Warned the World: How He Keeps the Ones He Loves
Greg Morse | When you come to a warning in the Bible, do you ignore it because of grace, or do you look for the grace in it?
Oct 26, 2021•13 min
Disrupt Your Dullness: Rekindling the Flame of Earnestness
Marshall Segal | In our shallow and distracted age, we desperately need friends whose lives pierce through all the worldliness with earnestness.
Oct 24, 2021•14 min
Live Like You’ll Live Forever
Greg Morse | How might it change us if we really believed that we, and every soul we meet, will live forever?
Oct 23, 2021•9 min
Bible Memory Brings Reality to Life
Jon Bloom | For many, Bible memory conjures up feelings of futility, fear, and past failure, but Bible memory is about so much more.
Oct 22, 2021•12 min
You Are and Will Be Justified: The Future Promise of a Finished Work
Scott Hubbard | If you are in Christ, you are and always will be justified. But one day God will unveil that justification for all to see.
Oct 21, 2021•12 min
A Reason to Be Vaccinated: Freedom
John Piper | The decision to be vaccinated (or not) need not be a political decision, whether left wing or right. It can be a Christian decision — informed by Scripture and free from the fear of man.
Oct 19, 2021•16 min
Beware the Anger of Your Soul: How to Restrain Ungodly Passion
Joe Rigney | As we feel the temperature of our souls rising, we need to stop and remind ourselves that ungodly anger will only add iniquity to our injury.
Oct 17, 2021•11 min
Can Anything Mend Our Conflict? How Cynicism Dies in a Divided Church
Jon Bloom | Many of us today need to learn what love means, and looks like, when we’re faced with a difficult, complex issue.
Oct 16, 2021•11 min
Every Other Way Leads to Death: Why We Keep Sharing Christ
Greg Morse | No matter how many rejections you’ve received, no matter how much fruit hasn’t come, no matter how discouraged you feel, do not grow weary in sharing Christ.
Oct 14, 2021•10 min
Don’t Miss the Marriage: Why the Justified Love Holiness
Marshall Segal | Justification is the gate, but not the garden. It is the door, but not the palace. It is the wedding day, but not the marriage.
Oct 13, 2021•13 min
Feed His Sheep: Whom Does Christ Call to Preach?
David Mathis | We cannot well answer the question of whom should preach on Sunday without coming to grips with the nature of preaching in the local church.
Oct 10, 2021•13 min
Encouragement for Beginners: How to Strengthen a Soul in God
Marshall Segal | How might you strengthen someone’s soul in Christ? How might God use you to stir confidence in him?
Oct 07, 2021•13 min
Our Lives in His: How Justification Leads to Holiness
Joe Rigney | Does our right standing before God depend on our becoming more like Jesus, or does our becoming more like Jesus flow from our right standing before God?
Oct 05, 2021•12 min
The Sluggard in Me: Four Lies That Lead to Lazy
Scott Hubbard | A life of laziness usually does not grow overnight, but through day after day of little excuses, trivial indulgences, small defeats.
Oct 04, 2021•11 min
Feed the Sheep by Any Hand: Fighting Envy in Pastoral Ministry
Greg Morse | The best shepherds know they aren’t the best shepherd. And so they gladly lead their sheep to him.
Oct 03, 2021•9 min
The Real Protestant Ethic: How ‘Faith Alone’ Sparks Industry
David Mathis | Justification by faith alone marks the end of our work to secure God’s favor — and the beginning of our work to secure others’ good.
Oct 01, 2021•13 min
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