Autumn is a time for reckoning. It's a season in life when we reflect upon what spring and summer months have produced. It's also a time for expressing our thanks for the abundance of God's grace.

Summer seasons in the heart and life are a little taste of heaven. During these times, God wants us to rest in the relationships and rewards of our labor without becoming spiritually lazy.

God breaks through barrenness of your spiritual winters with the renewal and new growth of spiritual spring in your heart and life.

Christ's triumph over death means that even in the winter seasons of your life, you can say " Death, where is thy sting?"

This passage puts before us a serious caution about sin's deceitfulness and an essential call to community that reinforces the power of indwelling sin as well as our need for daily ministry of the body of Christ.

How does a church keep its standards high and yet keep drawing sinners near? By keeping the gospel at the center of all it thinks, says, and does.

When faced with the demands of the Sermon on the Mount, sinners should be terrified. Yet when faced with the Savior who fulfilled all God's demands on their behalf, a sinner's terror should turn to admiration and obedience.

Jesus makes the last of his kingdom comparisons in the Sermon on the Mount by comparing two builders--the wise and the foolish. The foolish man builds a life that won't stand the storms sent to test it. But the wise man builds a life that will last...

Not every profession of faith in Christ is a saving profession. Jesus shows us how two people can say many of the right things, but unless he does the will of God, he will not be given entrance to the kingdom of heaven.

Things aren't always what they seem. Sometimes the best lies are hidden deep within the truth. Jesus warns us against false teachers who are both deceitful and destructive. Yet he also shows us how we can discern the difference between those teachers...