The Power of a Superior Promise
I shall walk in freedom, for I have sought your precepts. (Psalm 119:45, my translation) An essential element of joy is freedom. None of us would be happy if we were…
Gabby Petito
Please join us in prayer for Gabby Petito and family, God we trust and know you have Gabby safe with you in heaven. We would pray that you would give…
The Only Enduring Happiness
“You have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.”(John 16:22) “No one will take your…
God-Given Foes and God-Given Faith
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ . . . not frightened in anything by your opponents. . . . For it has been…
The Goal of Christ’s Love
“Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory.” (John 17:24) Believers in Jesus are precious to God…
The “I Will” of God
“Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it. And I will be to her a wall of fire all around,…
Six Things It Means to Be in Christ Jesus
[God] saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus…
Forgiven for Jesus’s Sake
For your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great. (Psalm 25:11) In knowing what is right, God does not consult any authority higher than himself. His own…
Shadows and Streams
May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works, who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!…
When God’s Love Is Sweetest
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the…