Posts with the tag “christology”

God graciously saves not by canceling those who deserve to be called but by calling those who deserve to be canceled....  Read More

The already and the not yet of the Kingdom of God is why we don’t have to fear when an evil government is ruling, when godless kings persecute the church, when we battle with personal struggles, or wh...  Read More

There is no need to add any created thing to the work of the one who is supreme over all creation. ...  Read More

Joy was a choice for Paul, and it is a choice for us. ...  Read More

If the church wasn’t about a man like Paul, then it most certainly isn’t about a man like me. The church was always about and will always be about its true Senior Pastor. King Jesus is the Head of His...  Read More

Bad theology infects the church. When bad theology infects the church it usually happens in small doses. Bad theology most certainly leads to sinful living in every aspect of the Christian life. The t...  Read More

The Messiah was going to suffer in a way that would not only relate to the people but would surpass the suffering of all people for all time. ...  Read More

The truest love the world has ever known manifested itself in Christ who laid down his life for those who hated him so that those who hated him could be saved from the things that were killing them. ...  Read More

Jesus is our justification, our sanctification, and our glorification. In this way, Jesus is the start of our journey, the journey itself, and the journey’s destination. So, yes. Life is a journey, bu...  Read More

We learn from Acts that the church has always faced great opposition and danger. And yet, the gates of hell have never and will never prevail against the church so long as the church remains true to t...  Read More

There is no other religion that claims what Christianity claims. Only the Christian faith claims that Jesus was indeed fully God and fully man. What does this mean for us?...  Read More

Something similar has happened to American Christianity, also called “evangelicalism” over the past 100 years, or more (depending on who you talk to). Some may get the feeling from the church that Jes...  Read More

On Earth, kings and rulers dominate and order people around. But the greatest in the Greatest Kingdom are those who serve others. In fact, those that would consider themselves a “slave to all” would b...  Read More

Who do you say Jesus is? No matter what faith or background you hold, every human being must reckon with a man who changed the world. ...  Read More

The world needs the church to hold on to the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. If the world has proven anything in these troubled times, it’s that there is no certainty of hope outside of God’s promi...  Read More

Good stories are based on good plans and solid plots. The story of Redemption has a perfect plan that has been unfolding since the beginning of time. God has never been surprised by any of the plot de...  Read More

We fight for the things that mean something to us. We rebuild and reclaim those things that have been destroyed when they have meaning for us. Our efforts follow our hearts....  Read More

The American church is fractured in its fealty to Jesus. We have choices to make. Will we follow Jesus even if that leads us into a place of powerlessness on this earth, or will we use worldly means, ...  Read More

Those who have been justified by faith know what it is like to be truly free before God. This is the greatest freedom of all. This great freedom must trickle down into our fight for justice in this wo...  Read More

The only chance that peace has is for the enemy of peace to be utterly destroyed. There can be no remnant of evil if we are to ever experience the kind of peace that God has in store for a New Heaven ...  Read More

If we are seeking peace on this earth because of the foundational peace we have in Christ, we will look to stop oppression and seek justice in our culture. We will fight to have laws changed and to el...  Read More

Jesus is a compassionate missionary and he calls his people to follow him on the path of compassion. Compassion means that we love those who hate us....  Read More

Life is not fair. Many evil people will never suffer punishment on this earth. They will die with a smile on their face. Conversely, many righteous people will be martyred or suffer unjustly. Sometime...  Read More

God hears the cry of the disenfranchised and he has placed His church in a position to seek social justice and righteousness in a world gone mad....  Read More

God is not promising to heal you of the plague if you would repent, for I can assure you, that is not true. What God has promised in the day of the Lord, what God is giving us through the indwelling o...  Read More

God desperately loves His people, even the broken ones. Oh yes, we are all the broken ones. ...  Read More

The world may be on fire around us and yet Jesus will preserve us until the final day of our lives or the last day of the history of this earth. Our perseverance and preservation is an absolute guaran...  Read More

How will we ever return? We must return to the unadulterated, non-partisan, all-inclusive, non-discriminating, call of the Gospel that urges every person to turn to faith in Jesus Christ and repent of...  Read More

God allowed these horrible things to happen in order to punish the sins of His people. In Lamentations, sin is serious, and rebellion is not tolerated. Sin has debilitating and awful consequences. ...  Read More

When we pile on the injustices in our world, the lack of true leadership in important places, bickering and fighting on 24-hour news cycles, and the politicization of the most mundane tasks, it almost...  Read More

The Gospel story doesn’t stop when a person comes to faith in Jesus. Yes, our sins are forgiven. Yes, we have secured an inheritance of eternal life. But the story continues. Jesus is making all thing...  Read More

Broken intimacy is one of the hardest places to return from. But it is possible. The reason I know it is possible to return from broken intimacy is because the Gospel has restored an eternally broken ...  Read More

Our purpose is not found in our biggest moments or our worst failures....  Read More

Through the Gospel, we have a proper view of all of the attributes of God, a proper view of the depth of our depravity, a proper view of the depth of God’s grace, and a proper view of how grace leads ...  Read More

Those were the nights when Jesus sang for her in the day. But when the night came, my wife continued to sing the words her mommy sang to her. ...  Read More

I don’t think that our memories will be wiped clean in heaven. I think that we will remember every tear and every moment of terror in grief. But we will remember it in the context of the glory of Chri...  Read More

We aren’t good enough. We sin too much. We aren’t worth the glory of God. Of course, all of this would be true were it not for Jesus....  Read More

If we want to end broken things, we must pursue the only One who is unbroken and be ambassadors of the unbroken Kingdom that He has promised....  Read More

Jesus is leading us to a better land where death has no power. He too but better than Ezra, is leading us home. I know that I am united to Jesus and that one day the dread and terror of death will no ...  Read More

We all have our ideas of what our own kingdom should look like. We really start building this kingdom when we strike out on our own. Some of us have achieved these kingdoms only to realize we still ha...  Read More