Lenten Joy!
If the words "Lenten Joy" seem like an oxymoron, it's because Lent needed reforming, it needed the gospel! So as we begin this first full Lenten week, let us contemplate ...
A Fresh Approach To Lent (2019)
Lent can be an exciting season of renewal, especially if approached through the gospel lens. Lent officially begins this Ash Wednesday, March 6th, and ends on Easter, April 21st. Excluding ...
Relationships Transformed By The Gospel
Blest Be The Tie That Binds! And what is that Tie? Jesus and the Gospel He brings. A gospel that can deliver us not only from the penalty of sin, ...
WHY LIBERAL CHURCHES ARE DYING
I've always applied the passage in Galatians 5 to me as an individual. If I abide in Christ, and He abides in me, Jesus promises, I will bear much fruit ...
An Empowering Secret To Overcoming
It was the secret to the victorious life of Jonathan Edwards. It is a secret our own Chris shared two weeks ago. It is a secret hidden in Galatians 5 ...
WHO IS YOUR MOTHER?
Works-righteousness, Luther said, is the default mode of the human heart. Instead of resting in God's love and approval of me, I am constantly building my own righteousness. I want ...
Are You Experiencing Your Abba?
It is one thing to know legally, that you are a son of God because of what Jesus did for you on the cross. It is quite another to experience the love of ...
THE MARK OF A CHRISTIAN
Francis Schaeffer was unique, a Reformed theologian, who, along with his wife, Edith, formed L'abri (meaning shelter) in Switzerland: a place where individuals could come and discuss truth, God, and ...
Do You Have The Joy of a Gospel Transformed Life?
In October, Eugene Peterson, known best for The Message and for his inextinguishable joy, went home to be with the Lord. On his passing, the family wrote: During the previous days, ...
A Power From On High To Rescue Us
If all Jesus Christ can do is tell me that I must be holy, His teaching only causes me to despair. Oswald Chambers This is how Christianity differs from other ...
Two Months to Victorious Freedom: #1
This year, we have two months before Lent begins, and this blog will be simplified, with less homework, yet I pray, powerful for us. So often we make and break ...
Mary! The final woman in the genealogy of Christ.
Poet Luci Shaw has said that Protestants, in reaction to what they perceive as a worship of Mary in Catholicism, have fallen off on the other side, abandoning her, to ...
Ruth, Taking Hold of What Christ Took Hold For Her
Ruth is the 3rd woman listed in the genealogy of Christ. She exemplifies an important truth for the greatest adventure. She took hold of that for which Christ had taken ...
Rahab, a Prostitute in The Lineage of Christ
Grace, Grace, God's Grace, Grace that is Greater Than All Our Sin... Though she had three strikes against her: woman, prostitute, and Canaanite... She is elevated three times in the ...
Tamar and Judah: “She is More Righteous Than I”
This Advent we are looking at the women named in the genealogy of Christ. If you are thinking, "How boring!" Think again. There are fascinating treasures here for you. My ...