Fallen humanity tends toward one of two sicknesses: pride on one side, insecurity on the other, both trying to heal themselves through boasting. Consider how right thinking about ourselves and our leaders is what actually stops church divisions before they start.

Genesis 3:15 is the promise of salvation that begins the covenant of grace, and the rest of the Bible simply shows how that single promise gets fulfilled. God’s covenant with Abraham is the next major installment in that unfolding story.

We will all give an account to God for what we’ve done, as 2 Corinthians 5:10 puts it. Paul warns the Corinthians about building the church on the right foundation, and what happens when the materials we build with won’t survive the fire.

Is it sinful for Christians to live in the city, or to do business with unbelievers? The confession’s teaching on common grace, God’s kindness extended even to those who reject him, shapes how Christians engage a fallen world.

In Reformed circles we talk about remembering your baptism: when you doubt, when you’re tempted, even on your deathbed. Romans 6 shows baptism as a visible sermon, a sign of what God has actually done for us.

Ask the average Christian for a quick summary of the gospel, and the cross gets a mention nine times out of ten, the empty tomb almost never does. Paul’s tight argument connects Christ’s resurrection directly to our own justification.

He is risen, he is risen indeed. But what actually makes the resurrection different from any other significant date on the calendar, like ANZAC Day or the moon landing? Paul’s answer comes in Colossians 2.

The last 24 hours led to Jesus standing condemned and beaten before Pilate, before the brutal, unjust scene of the crucifixion itself on this Good Friday service.

How can people in the Old Testament be saved if Jesus only died in the New? A sweeping new section of the confession on covenant theology opens by listing the hard questions it has to answer, from infant baptism to the nature of Adam’s headship.

The personality cult is a familiar modern instinct, the same propaganda that built savior-figures around tyrants like Hitler. Paul’s corrective addresses a Corinthian congregation building cults around Paul and Apollos instead of God.