With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.
At the cross, God addressed the sin problem we couldn’t see, with a Savior we didn’t know we needed, in order to bring us eternal life that we didn’t even know was possible.
But Jesus crossed the great gulf from the Holy land of heaven, and he landed his boat in the defiled regions of the earth – because in mercy, he loved us.
God wants his churches to be filled with prayer. He wants us to pray with holy hands, and for our prayers to be all-encompassing, peace-pursuing, salvation-seeking, and God-glorifying.
Will you curse God and sink? Or will you trust God and swim?
Why did Jesus come? Paul says Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. And when Jesus saves sinners, he transforms them too!
Feeling downcast? Pray, sing, preach the gospel to yourself, and be convinced of God's love and sovereign power.
God’s word is calling us to contend for the faith today, so that his truth will be carried along into tomorrow.
Jesus Christ needs to remain at the center of our faith, because it’s all too easy for us to come up with a distorted version of Christianity that fixates on something else.
Grace, grace, and more grace – sola gratia – grace alone. That’s what God’s putting on display here.
As the chosen one, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin – there is no one else who’s qualified to save you from your sins, and to bring you close to God.
For you know the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for our sake, he became poor, so that you, by his poverty, might become rich.
The right attitude of the Christian should never be “God shows me grace, so I can keep sinning!” Instead, the right attitude that we see here is “God shows me grace, so I can keep obeying!”
The only people who will sincerely engage in praying against temptation and evil are those who desire the kingdom of God, and depend on the power of God, and who delight in the glory of God.
When we trust in our great King – when we believe in Jesus – he saves us, not because of any virtue or strength in us, but because of the virtue and strength that’s in him.
The resurrection of Jesus is incredibly good news, and it always will be.
God will keep his promise. Because Jesus has suffered, we will be saved. Our pain will be turned into praise.