As we face suffering in the Christian life, we are encouraged to Trust God, Beware the Devil, and Remember the Big Picture.

Living to please God means to live as if God exists, and that he is who he says he is. It’s walking through life bowing to his rule and remembering that we are loved in and through the Lord Jesus. Pleasing God means to yield to his will which leads to...

In order to help the Thessalonians keep their eyes fixed on Jesus, Paul pauses to pray for them, and by extension for us, in the simplest of ways. As he does, he makes three profound requests to guide us as we keep on, keeping on, in the Christian...

Where the gospel is at work, it produces new life which is a cause of enormous joy, and where the gospel is being sustained and there is good news about faith and love, then those who hear it find their life is enriched as a result. When Paul heard...

We can’t escape a life of anxious circumstances, but we can discover that those who trust in the Lord, in the experiences of fretfulness, will see their anxiety relieved. As we depend on God our fears and cares are quieted down a little more. We see...

Sometimes the circumstances of life leave us asking the question: "Does God care?" This was the case for Naomi in the book of Ruth. God's answer to Naomi's question comes in a way we may not expect—in the form of people who...

When we face social ostracization it’s easy to feel as if we’re all alone. Physically we can feel nauseous and relationally we can feel isolated. When experiences like that happen, it can feel like no one else is really able to understand what we’re...

The Thessalonians recognized that Paul wasn’t like other speakers, philosophers and teachers, but that there was something palpably different about the weight of his words, and the insight into the human condition that they offered. People picked up...

Sometimes it’s difficult to see where we’re going in life. The future can look foggy and foreboding. At the same time, it can be easy for us to forget where we came from. For the Christian, one danger of forgetfulness is that it can lead to wandering...