“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up” (John 3:14, esv). God takes our attitudes seriously. We see this clearly in another wave of murmuring recorded in Numbers 21. Forty years after the first round of grumbling, a new generation of Israelites stood at […]
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the […]
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet […]
And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory” (Isaiah 6:3, ESV)! On God’s Top Ten list, the very first rule, the commandment that earns the #1 spot, states who He is. “I am the Lord your God, who brought you […]
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 7:24–25a, esv)! Do you want to change? Maybe you’re tired of cycles of defeat and empty self-help programs. Maybe you’re enslaved to a habit and feel the pain of falling flat […]
Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp (Numbers 11:1, NASB). God hears and hates our complaining. He hears […]
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore […]
When we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith (1 Thessalonians 3:1–2, esv). Have you ever been misunderstood and then found yourself unable to correct […]
The Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” (Genesis 2:18, esv). The word sex has become so maligned by our culture’s mishandling of it that even the letters themselves—S-E-X—are hard to picture without conjuring up the neon signs of an […]
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it (Psalm 24:1, niv). How many of your decisions flow from your view of money? From your vacation plans to your lunch plans. From your clothing options to your stock options. From what you’re putting away into retirement every year to what you’re putting into the offering […]