As I go about life on this sunny Saturday morning, I am overcome by how much God loves us. He has given us so much, all that He is and all that He has. God has trusted us with His love, so that we will WANT to spread it to others. We [...]

Abiding in Jesus Christ

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”- John 15:5,8

We can often times [...]

Abraham Lincoln’s Path to Divine Providence

By John Piper February 12, 2008

Abraham Lincoln, who was born on this day 199 years ago, remained skeptical, and at times even cynical, about religion into his forties. So the most striking thing about Marvin Olasky’s recent article about Lincoln in World Magazine is how personal and national suffering drew [...]

“It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, not at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all [...]

Happy December 1st, everyone. I love December – it’s the Christmas season and the time of year when much of our society focuses on Jesus, our reason for celebrating life on this earth. As the days wind down to Christmas, it’s easy to get lost in the hustle of shopping, parties and trying [...]

Thanksgiving to Our Father in Heaven

1 Thessalonians 5:18 says that we are to “in everything, give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

We live in an increasingly thankless society. Even Thanksgiving isn’t so much about giving thanks as it is about the “3 Fs” – Food, [...]

God has victory for us on this side of life.
The Victorious Life IS:

The life that God wants to see lived by us.
The growing consistency of a close walk with the Lord.
Jesus Christ Himself living in us and through us.

The Victorious Life IS NOT:

Sinless perfection.
Trying harder to live up to God’s standard.
A burden to be carried [...]

2 Chronicles 29:31-36 – Sudden, Abundant Thanksgiving

2 Chronicles 29:31-36 describes the first “thank offerings” brought to the temple when King Hezekiah restored worship there. It describes a scene of sudden, abundant thankfulness to the Lord. So much, in fact, that there weren’t enough priests to handle all of it – they had to [...]

I woke up Tyler, my 3-year-old, today. His first sleepy words were “Are you here, Dad?”  Then, a smile as he realized that I, indeed, was there.
Last night I taught at our School of Ministry, so Tyler went to sleep without me there to help tuck him in.  He was asleep by the time I [...]

I read this quote today – it impacted me and I wanted to share:
“One can form a habit of study until the will seems to be at rest and only the intellect is engaged, the will having retired altogether from exercise. This is not true of real praying. If the affections are laggard, [...]