Jesus invites all the weary and burdened to come to Him and find rest. It’s the one place in Scripture where He explicitly speaks about His heart, the place from…
Jesus is always consistent, but never predictable. Even mighty John the Baptizer has a hard time understanding how Jesus’ actions line up with who He is. So John asks. The…
Everyone who comes to the Father though the Son is brought there by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit applies all the blessings of salvation to us because He identifies us…
God calls us to love Him with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. This means that other things which demand our ultimate allegiance must be rejected. Another way…
The disciples are sent out empowered to gather the lost sheep of the house of Israel. They’ll cast out unclean spirits, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,…
A jarring reality in the midst of our indiscriminately ‘tolerant’ society is the Bible’s insistence that there are, foundationally, two kinds of people in the world. While these two groups…
The reason you are hearing the gospel today is because Jesus sent out the apostles. He preached the kingdom of God and went through Israel teaching and healing, which equipped…
“Faith is the substance of the things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.… But without faith it is impossible…
God delights to give grace, life, and joy where there was none. He is the one “who gives life to the dead and calls things not existing into existence”. Jesus’…
Jesus surprised everyone when He rose from the dead. Even when the disciples believed they didn’t understand it. But that didn’t change the fact that they (and we) were raised…