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It is often said that there is power in prayer. Without quibbling over theological caveats, any experienced and thinking Christian will heartily agree. There is indeed power in and through prayer. And the corollary is equally true: that "many...

Proverbs 1:1–7 serves as an introduction to the book. Everything that will be addressed, in principle, is contained in this introductory nutshell. It is therefore of great importance that we consider these verses closely.

Paul’s intention, as he comes to the end of his exhortation concerning the church’s need to stand against the satanic schemes that seek to derail us from our pursuit of Christ and all things biblically Christian, is simple: “Take the sword of...

As we stand on the brink of a new year, we may find all sorts of challenges lying before us: relational, economic, vocational, physical, emotional, and spiritual. It is because we live in a broken world that the text we will examine in this study is...

At the end of a long life, Moses knew the priority of life: wise living. His prayer revealed this priority: “So teach us to number our days, that we might gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). What is the priority of your life? Where on the list...

It has been said that “combat is reflective of life, only amplified and intensified.” That being the case, Genesis 14 records the first ever special operations combat in Scripture. In that combat, we learn the value of preparation as a principle...

Was Adam really a historical person? Can we trust the biblical story of human origins? Is the story of Eden simply a metaphor, leaving scientists the job of correctly reconstructing the truth of human origins? Although the church currently faces...

People today tend to describe themselves as “blessed” when they experience a turn of good fortune. Biblical blessing, however, goes far deeper than our good fortune. To quote Sinclair Ferguson, “blessing … is the expression of God’s...

God is found in our world today, the same place that he has been found for nearly two thousand years, in the person of Jesus Christ. God is found today in the incarnate Son of God. God is found today in the person that was born of a virgin, seen by shepherds, worshipped with gifts by wise men, proclaimed by John the Baptist as the sin-bearing Lamb of God, witnessed by the apostles, and described by John the apostle in the prologue to his Gospel.

Throughout history, the light of Jesus shone into a dark world. Some received the light, while most rejected it. Then, one day, the light came into the world in a very personal and very profound way. We call this the incarnation. The Christmas light came into a darkened world and, as they say, the rest is history—a history that is heading for a glorious future where there will be no need for the sun, for the Lord God will provide all the light required.