Jude gives us the secrets of staying bulletproof spiritually. He gives us a triad for resisting the temptation to become overwhelmed and intimidated by the culture around us. We build up our most holy faith. We pray in the holy spirit and in the last part of the triad. Jude tells us is to keep […]

Be merciful to those who doubt. Mercy means that God never lets us go even when we fail Him. When you reach out to certain people showing mercy, you may have to remind them how vulnerable they are in light of God’s judgment. The idea here is that we should hang in there with people […]

In his doxology, Jude wants to make sure that he leaves us with the right idea about God Himself: the key to sustained leadership with the pressures that we are facing even today. So the model is one of sacrifice–think about Him. Think about His glory and his majesty and His dominion and His power. […]

How do we maintain the courage to do the kinds of things that the Bible is challenging us to do? In the face of increasingly unfavorable odds, our job is to maintain Biblical standards of morality. That’s our calling. That’s what can be taken from the book of Jude. And where did Jesus get the […]

Closing comments on the book of Jude.