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The story of the rich, young ruler is instructive. The rich man was morally upstanding, and yet he was following his riches to destruction. His idolatry of affluence risked cutting him off from eternal life. Our idolatry of affluence, if we do not...

When we experience painful affliction, we often ask, why? At other times, we just give up in despair. Paul felt all this as he wrote to the also troubled Corinthian church. He tells us, through his letter to them, that there is powerful, gospel...

Children have dignity and value because they are made in the image of God. Children are also sinners who need the Saviour. Christians believe that children need the Saviour and therefore we seek to get them to him. And a huge means towards this is...

Christians universally agree that being a witness to Christ is a part of being a Christian, and that the best thing that can happen to a person is for them to come to a saving knowledge of Christ. Few, however, seem satisfied with their evangelistic...

Jesus had just confronted hard-hearted Pharisees about marriage when he needed to confront his hard-hearted disciples about children. The Pharisees viewed women as insignificant and therefore held hardened attitudes about divorce rather than a...

Though what Jesus said is straightforward, and therefore provides us with a biblical basis for the question of divorce and remarriage, he was saying a lot more than they asked. These words equip Jesus’ disciples with what we need to stand our...

Those with a big God are prone to have a pretty big prayer life. That is, those who believe God’s self-revelation will trust him and this trust will be revealed in their prayers.

We have begun to carefully study these words of Jesus in response to the devious questioning of the Pharisees about Jesus’ view on divorce and remarriage. As we saw, Jesus turned the conversation to a lesson about marriage. The diabolical critics...

We may have the erroneous idea that Christians should just know how to pray. Praying, we often say, is to the Christian as breathing is to a person. And since people don’t need to be taught how to breathe, why should we be taught to pray? But the...

Judges 6 is the story of God preparing his people for deliverance. We will see that he prepared them for deliverance in at least four distinct steps. These four things were necessary for God’s people to be properly prepared to receive the salvation...