When our expectations of what God will do don’t line up with what He is really doing in our lives, we find ourselves at a fork in the road. We can either try to take Him up in our hands and manipulate Him towards our desires, or we can put ourselves...

Few things in life are more distressing than unmet expectations. In the gap that forms between our expectations and reality a war is waged. We must decide in those moments whether we will open to God in trust or turn against Him in bitterness. His...

The obedience of Abraham and the blessing that flows out to others because of it pictures and prepares us for the obedience of Jesus and the salvation that will come to us by grace through faith in Him.

If we want to become the kind of trees that bear good fruit in love for God and neighbor, then we must tumble towards the only fruitful One and abide in His love, drawing on His grace and Spirit.

Jesus tells a parable that seems to indicate there are what we might call divine and holy tensions within God Himself. God demands justice but desires to show mercy. He demands that the tree to be cut down, but desires to give it more time and care...

When tragedy strikes it can be severely disorienting. We are often left wondering how we should interpret it, how we should respond to it, where is God in the middle of it, what is He doing or saying in it all? Our text leaves little room for doubt...

We have been given the gift of life and the greatest opportunity of all, which is union with the Triune God. Repentance is the doorway and path we continually walk to accept this invitation. With each occasion of our sin, we are invited into deeper...

The notion of judgment may be unpopular, but truly we are all longing for a judge to come and make every wrong right. God will do this in Jesus, but if we want to be standing on the right side of this judgment we must settle our debts with Him...

The people of God have always had to wait. But it’s never been easy. In this text we see that this waiting is necessary, full of desire for God, marked by love for others, and granted a glorious end.