The book of Hebrews stands there like a giant appeal to use the salvation God has granted us. What we have in Christ is incredible. We must use it. For this reason, at the outset of the book, the author answers three questions. Each question is designed to help us rejoice at the salvation Christ brought us so that we might enjoy his salvation to the fullest.
Read moreArchival Post: Lovers of Self
Self-love is heralded as the accepted religion of our day. The Roman Empire had its religio-licita, and today's West has its own. To love the self is the greatest of all religions for many of earth's inhabitants today.
Read moreArchival Post: Steward God's Gift
According to Peter, everyone with a gift in the church has something to offer the others in the church. This is particularly impressive when you think of the original recipients of Peter's letter.
Read moreArchival Post: 7 Ways Modern Church Leadership Can Walk By Faith
It would have been awesome to have been part of the first church. But instead, I was born in 1978. Still, in my mind, I am part of that first church. That age still exists. I’m in it. When I read Acts and 1 Timothy and Philemon and 1 John it still applies. I feel at home. I might have to think through how it works out in my setting, but work out it does.
Read moreArchival Post: A Picture of Love
"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:35)
Read moreArchival Post: An Almost Unbelievable Truth
Let me remind you of an almost unbelievable truth, one I say to myself a dozen times a day. "So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus."
Read moreArchival Post: The New You - Truthful and Free of Anger
After reminding the Ephesians of what they had learned from Jesus, namely to put off the old and put on the new, Paul explained five areas to take off and put on. Like the removing of old garments and the putting on of fresh ones, the Christian life is one of putting off and putting on.
Read moreArchival Post: 3 Groups the Gospel Can Certainly Reach
God can save anybody. If you are a Christian, you know it's true. God can reach into any life and heal their brokenness and forgive their sin. Often, though, what we know disconnects itself from how we act. We say God can save anyone, but do we believe it?
Read moreArchival Post: Overnight Success?
Joseph, the ultimate rags to riches story. One day in prison, the next day on the throne. Unknown to Egypt, then announced to the land as the right-hand man of Pharaoh. The world came to know his name, but not before his brothers tried to erase it. He was an overnight success. Or was he?
Read moreArchival Post: Slave Shipped
Peter said, They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption.
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