In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus teaches that God’s plan is that a husband and wife remain married. He also teaches that divorce may be permissible in certain circumstances, while, we can assume, affirming that the Scripture are quite clear in stating...

Do you ever stop to think about the relative scale of our mortal lives next to the magnitude of God, who is everlasting? The writer of Psalm 90 does exactly that, and responds by asking God for a heart of wisdom. When we learn to number our days, we...

The Lord’s Supper binds many into one, as we sit down together, pass the bread and cup to each other and share in a symbolic meal. As Christians we are very different from each other but we are held together by our common commitment to Christ. Our...

In the middle of Matthew 5 Jesus is addressing the fact, that the rabbis of the day were attempting to limit the scope of the seventh commandment to the act of adultery itself. While he is teaching something much deeper, which is that the prohibition...

Murder and anger are two very different issues, which makes it surprising to hear Jesus enlarge the boundary of murder so that it includes all kinds of anger. He does this by linking murder and anger at the level of the heart where they share the same...

Jesus didn’t come to tear out the pages of the Old Testament, or to ignore them, he came to fulfill what they said. He’s the one to whom they point. He’s the one they predict and anticipate. The Law and Prophets find their fulfillment, their intended...

To mark the significant life event of Dr. Nathanael Wiles going to Kenya as a medical missionary, we consider one of Jesus’s familiar statements, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the...

Psalm 27 shows us that having an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ enables us to wait on the Lord and live a soul-satisfying life, regardless of our circumstances.

Sickness is part of the deal of life. It confronts us with the reality that life for us is short. A few more sicknesses and all will be over. A few more funerals and our own funeral will take place. These are the heavy facts of life but these aren’t...