You are the earth’s salt. You are the world’s light. Christians may seem small and insignificant, in our ever-drifting and confused culture. But, in actuality, we have the ability to significantly impact the whole as the apparently cheap and...

This longest psalm in the psalter extols the Scriptures as our most wonderful earthly possession. We’re reminded that it will be our great good and gain, if we’ll regularly read the Bible, sequentially, consecutively and routinely. Therefore, on the...

The subject matter of the virgin birth is challenging to us, but it isn’t non-believable as John Stott once winsomely put it, “There’s no need for us to be embarrassed by this. It’s surely fitting that a supernatural person should enter the world in a...

When Jesus appeared on the scene as a baby, it was more than just a feat of nature. It was, as J. I. Packer put it, a "wonder of grace." He became a baby not as a spectacle, but as an incredible act of love. Jesus became poor for his people...

Advent is a good time for us to renew our sense of awe and astonishment at the miracle of the incarnation. To keep our confession of the Word made flesh at the very center of our church’s life, worship and witness. Jesus didn’t just become man because...

The beatitudes aren’t a description of an ideal life in an ideal world. This is Jesus’s vision for how we can live a flourishing life in this fallen world. But what he’s saying is probably not what we expect to hear or even want to hear. Why? Because...

This final beatitude directs our vision forward in time, by nudging us to see, that our time here on earth is not going to be the place of our best lives. As Christians, we have to learn to place our expectations for happiness beyond this place. In...

There is a great need for peacemakers. A deep need for people to hear what Jesus is saying in this beatitude and take it to heart. He is inviting us into a way of being in him that will result in flourishing and happiness. He will bring inner peace to...

Do you want to be happy? It’s not money, possessions, or an easy annoyance-free life, that will give you this thing. In this beatitude Jesus says that purity of heart is the way. Those who are blessed and happy know that their one uncompromised...