And as Jesus continues to engage his Church in the great mission of making disciples – as he continues to send us out – he still supplies those whom he sends.
Christians shouldn’t be timid people.
Jesus doesn’t play the virtue-signaling game like everybody else. His concern isn’t to follow manmade customs to gain people’s approval. His concern, instead, is for his relationship with God to be lived out in a way that’s truly right.
Paul won’t spend much time in this letter explaining how God saved us. He gives more attention to that in his other letters. But the understanding that underlies this whole letter is that we have a God who saves – a God who speaks for our good. And that explains why we listen to his voice, with trust and with joy...
Isaiah insists that we can’t put our trust in the glory of man, at all. Because it’s a mirage in the desert. It’s a water droplet of dew that’s evaporating under the morning sunlight. It doesn’t ultimately last.
God is preeminent, perpetually. He is in control, continuously. He is faithful forever.
Jesus has taught us to pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,” because these are the things that he wants his disciples to love and prioritize.
Introduction So far, as we’ve worked through Genesis 1, we’ve seen that God alone is eternal and self-existent, that he has Supreme Power to create and to govern his creatures,…
When Jesus refers to himself as the Good Shepherd, he’s proclaiming himself to be the compassionate King who fulfills various expectations of the Old Testament.
I am not ashamed of the good news of Scripture – of the Christian gospel. For it is the power of God for salvation, to everyone who believes. The Bible is the very Word of God to us, and it is enough.