God’s Indescribable Gift
If while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.…
Glorify God by Giving Thanks
It is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. (2 Corinthians 4:15) Gratitude to God…
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…
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…
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…
The Message of Creation
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. (Romans 1:22–23) It would…