Joy in Christ is the deep good feelings in loving Him and believing Him. It’s the echo in our emotions — our hearts — of experiencing Christ as precious and experiencing Christ as reliable. It’s the deep good feelings of being attracted to Him for who He is and the deep good feelings of being…
In denying Christ Peter said, “I do not know the man” (Matthew 26:74). Those who follow Christ must say that to themselves. Self-denial means knowing only Christ; no longer knowing oneself. It means no longer seeing oneself, only Him who is going ahead, no longer seeing the way which is too difficult for us. Self-denial…
The problem and issue of evil is something that Christians need to be more biblically knowledgeable and competent in their explanation of. This is a helpful post. You can read the original post here. If God is all-good and all-powerful, why is there so much evil and suffering in the world? This question, the age-old “problem…
Official persecution was lifted and being a Christian — at least in name — became popular and prudent. Constantine left Rome and built a “new Rome” in the East as the new imperial capital of the empire. He chose the city of Byzantium (today’s Istanbul in Turkey) and renamed it after himself: Constantinople. The most…
I found this post very helpful and challenging. The discipline of rest and work and balancing the two is something I constantly thing about. Original post can be viewed here. A few years back, I began tracking how many books I read during the year. After the first year, dissatisfied with how little I read,…
Augustine (354-430) was one of the great figures of the early Church. The story of his conversion to Christ is told in his Confessions, in which he describes how God used a single verse from the epistle to the Romans to suddenly convert him. He went on to serve the Church as an illustrious teacher and bishop…
I’ve read this awhile ago and wanted to pass it on. Read and reflect on this awesome truth! Alexander the Great had a general whose daughter was getting married. Alexander valued this soldier greatly and offered to pay for the wedding. When the general gave Alexander’s steward the bill, it was absolutely enormous. The steward came to…
It is very important that you get your self-image from Jesus. He will never lie to you, and he will always love you. Don’t ask your enemy to tell you the truth about yourself…Don’t even ask someone who loves you and sees you through the eyes of love. Instead, go to Jesus and ask Him.…
It is very important that you get your self-image from Jesus. He will never lie to you, and he will always love you. Don’t ask your enemy to tell you the truth about yourself…Don’t even ask someone who loves you and sees you through the eyes of love. Instead, go to Jesus and ask Him.…
Jonathan Leeman writes that church discipline aims to… Expose sin. Sin, like cancer, loves to hide. Discipline exposes the cancer so that it might be cut out quickly (1 Corinthians 5:2). Warn. A church does not enact God’s judgment through discipline. Rather, it stages a small play that pictures the great judgment to come (1…
Theology Along the Way 