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What does God look like? Perhaps, following the psalmist, we turn to poetry and hymnody to answer. When you know your sins are forgiven, and the God of all Creation is your own Father, God looks like the One you have been desiring all of your...

Discover the story of Rahab in the Bible and how we can relate to her tale of faith and redemption from a life of sin.

To be clear, the Bible never says that the Lord God is Mother God. The Bible declares that the Lord is like the universally admired maternal instincts. The Lord uses similitudes to help us understand His “instinctive” loving, nurturing, and...

The Scriptures are clear: Praying in the Holy Spirit is approaching the throne of grace in humble and devout intercession and supplication entirely on God’s terms, not ours. Or, as one older Christian author, Jacob Gregory, put it so plainly: “No...

You cannot separate the will of God in the believer’s life from the cross of Christ in His Son our Savior, Jesus Christ. Our lives follow the ruling motif of the cross of Christ. And in this we are safe. In this, we are saved.

When Jesus tells us to leave the wheat and tares alone and let them grow together, we are witnesses to Jesus’ exhortation to let God be God. The purity of the Church is ultimately in the sovereign hands of an Almighty God who knows the hearts of...

When we begin to reduce God’s response to human sin as judgment without mercy, then it is time for us to open up the book of Jonah, and invite the Spirit of the Lord to cleanse us of self-interests, smugness, and uncaring attitudes and return to...

Facilitating a Bible study, Sunday School lesson, or small group Bible study is one of those activities we might erroneously write off as “volunteer church work.” The truth is, leading a Bible study is a direct response to the Great Commission of...

Communion is received by baptized believers who have made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and are able to understand, even at the most basic level, that we are remembering what Jesus did for us on the cross and how He is with us and will...

He who made the heavens and the earth and sustains the planets in their courses and who has named the billions of stars in the heavens knows your name and will sustain you. By placing your trust in Almighty God through our only mediator, the Lord...

There will be many voices in the coming days telling us to seek the wisdom of political maneuvering, the necessity of reform, and the need for unity. All of these things are good and should be considered. However, they should not be our first...

The diseases which have taken our loved ones, and which afflict us today, are the final gasps of a dying earthly reign. The greater rule and reign of Christ Jesus has defeated the enemy of death and the processes of entropy.

Abiding love is the essential character of God, which tells us He will never let us go. This truth is our blessed assurance of God's unending love. The features of this abiding love include his initiating love, his redeeming love, and his...

So, we could answer the question “What did God promise Abraham?” by giving a brief response: God promised Abraham…a land (Gen. 12:1 ESV);a nation (Gen. 22:17-18); anda blessing to the world (Gen. 17:6).The answer would be correct but incomplete....

Infant baptism, i.e., the baptism of believers’ little children, is not only rooted in Scripture but was the practice of the Church in the first four centuries after the ascension of Jesus.

We are considering the angelic visitations to certain persons in the New Testament – concerning the birth of Jesus Christ. This morning we come to Joseph. I want to treat this passage a little differently. I don't want to consider what promise the...

You have heard it said. You have undoubtedly uttered the words yourself: "The only hope, now, is God to send true revival." Of course, you are not speaking of an annual event in a local church, a spring get-together that focuses on reaching the...

Genesis chapter 3 closes in what the prodigious English poet, John Milton, rightly called, “Paradise Lost.” Our first parents are banished from the Eden and the Garden of Eden is closed to them and their offspring—until the fullness of time has...

If I were to chronicle and categorize the hours of my adult life, the majority of my time would have surely been devoted to pastoral counseling. And there is no busier time of the year for pastoral counseling than the weeks following the new year....

If there has ever been a time when we needed divine guidance on marriage, now is that time. Mercifully, the Bible is filled with God’s truth about this most essential institution. Consider the truth and life from the devotional thoughts in...