
Raise The Bar
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus doesn’t lower the bar when it comes to the law, he raises it. By making it clear that...
Read ArticleIn the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus doesn’t lower the bar when it comes to the law, he raises it. By making it clear that...
Read ArticleJesus challenges conventional thinking, in his time and ours, about what it means to be “blessed.” In the Beatitudes, Jesus shows us the marks of an extraordinary life of faith. The...
Read ArticleJesus’ last words, like his first words, on the cross, were a prayer. William Barclay suggests that this prayer could very well be a prayer...
Read ArticleJohn 4 and John 7 present Jesus as Living Water. As Jesus hangs on the cross, we see a picture of the living water drying up –...
Read ArticleDerided and scorned by passers-by and religious leaders alike, these last words of Jesus are the only ones recorded by Matthew and Mark. Jesus knows...
Read ArticleJesus models abiding in the 5th commandment here. He is caring for his mother who loves him as much as a mother can love a...
Read ArticleSin is deadly. Grace is not cheap. Jesus is both God’s message and God’s messenger. On the cross, all the sin in the world was...
Read ArticleWe live in a world filled with suffering, pain, conflict, and disease. The Bible promises it will not always be this way. Creation itself will...
Read ArticleThe sin that has separated us from our Creator demands a price be paid. Full of mercy, God sent Jesus (100% man AND 100% divine)...
Read ArticleHumanity was created to know, love, and reflect God yet we rebelled against the Creator by rejecting God’s sovereignty in exchange for our own self-rule....
Read ArticleAll-powerful, God merely spoke the Universe into existence. Every snow-capped Alpine peak and island paradise, every jungle cat, leviathan of the sea, and mosquito in...
Read ArticleTime Magazine recently called loneliness the next great health epidemic on par with obesity and substance abuse. David tells us that we can live with...
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