The Path to Personal Integrity from First Command to Tenth
If we are not supposed to be led astray by rivalry or boasting over others, how much more is it wrong and perverse to be consumed by envy and resentment?
If we trust God, then we can be confident that our problems are tests meant for us and that God is providing what we need. We can serve Him and help others without being distracted by perceived inequality. God establishes our place and allows us to develop personal integrity. Ultimately, the prohibition on covetousness means... Continue Reading
We Can Know Who Jesus is by Observing What He Did
Jesus performed many miracles that verified he had control over the physical realm.
Jesus is described as the Word, who is God. “All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being” (John 1:3). When asked for evidence of his identity, Jesus—the creator of space, time, matter, and the spiritual realm—performed miracles showing his power over space, time, matter,... Continue Reading
Toward A Catechism on Mortification
Mortification is evidently fundamental to Paul’s conception of the believer’s new life.
What benefits may believers enjoy through mortification? A. The benefits that believers may enjoy through mortification include the following: that their strength and peace—indeed, their power and comfort—in their life with God will be stirred up, increased, and built up through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of adoption (Col 1:10–11; Eph 3:16–19; Rom 7:4-6; Gal 5:16,... Continue Reading
What’s in a Name?
The only way Abram becomes Abraham is by the power of God through the never-failing word of God.
Leon Kass comments, “The change of Abram’s name, offered in conjunction with God’s abundant promise, is in fact deeply significant. ‘Abraham’s very identity is now inextricable from God’s promise of abundant offspring. His being depends on God’s speech. If God breaks his promise, Abraham ceases to be Abraham.’”1 Abraham cannot be Abraham unless God is faithful. It... Continue Reading
Peace on Earth
A Culture at War with God
The current suppression of the self-evident truths of sexuality and gender in the unrighteousness of perverse diversity and the cruelty of genital mutilation is unsustainable. These things will eventually and inevitably end. Pretend marriages, make-believe families and ruined bodies will become sad relics of our present darkness. The creational and natural truth of human, heterosexual,... Continue Reading
Exploiting the “Little Ones”
The Culture’s Rejection of Christianity Comes at Great Cost for Children
It’s not like young people in ages past were sealed off from the “facts of life” (especially since so many more children in those days grew up around livestock). But more Americans are finally seeing that the sexual revolution’s demands—that moral corruptions be legalized, socially endorsed, and even celebrated—have immense costs, and one of them... Continue Reading
What Does the Name Jesus Mean?
“How Sweet the Name”
If you have been brought face-to-face with your sin and have come to believe that Jesus is your Savior, no name will be more precious to you than His. Though at one time you may have held Him at arm’s length, despised Him as nothing more than a profanity, or even thought that you could... Continue Reading
Reasons Why Believers Love Jesus More Than Anyone Else
The eternal Son of God, the second person of the glorious Trinity, came down here on earth, and took on Him the nature of the seed of Abraham!
The deeper we reflect on who our Lord Jesus Christ is and where He has come from, the more it serves to highlight the adorable beauty of what He has done for His sinful people. If by faith we accept His gifts of salvation – what He has done and what He gives – the... Continue Reading
When My Iranian Friend Took Mohler’s Parking Spot
A group of us were attempting to get a Bible study going among Iranian refugees in Louisville.
Reza arrived, looking relieved and a little winded. We all had a good laugh as he described what happened. “I just followed the address on the GPS and it took me right there! I didn’t know that was the president’s special spot!” “But Reza, why did you run from the campus police?” “I’m a Middle-Easterner and... Continue Reading
How to Tell If You Are Blessed
Where Are Your Roots?
He first delighted in us, and now we love to delight in him in return. This is our introduction into the blessed life, and this is the truth we need to press deep into our hearts to make it through our wintery seasons faithfully. Once we’ve first been properly introduced to the truth of Jesus... Continue Reading
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