Starting the Day on the Right Path (Psalm 5)
When the Bible refers to love and hate, it does not correspond particularly well with the ways those two words are used today.
When the Bible refers to love and hate, it does not correspond particularly well with the ways those two words are used today.
As Christians, we remember that God sent his Son into the world to restore the honor that rightly belongs to him.
We pray for our enemies, even as we ask God to put an end to all the schemes of wickedness, which are expressions of that great spiritual conflict.
God alone is the Lord of history. Through the incarnation, the LORD has set another historical trajectory into motion.
It is at the cross that we who have traveled the way of wickedness can finally cross over through grace to the path of righteousness.
It is not just a message we proclaim, it is the person of Jesus—he is the embodiment of the kingdom.
All the nations of the world are being invited to participate in the salvation and justice that comes through Yahweh’s Servant.
Dedicating a day once per week for worship, rest, reflection, and renewal is but a tiny foretaste of the final Sabbath rest that will be reinstituted once Christ has returned and sin has been banished.
What has always been regarded as one of the geniuses of the Wesleyan revivals is that we don’t just believe doctrine in our heads; we sing it into our hearts.
The best way to get into the meaning of the Lord’s Supper is to look at it through three lenses—past, present, future.
The means of grace are designed to deliver you and me from all idolatry and fully restore the image of God in us.
This great, global vision is at the heart of what happens when the Spirit of God infuses his people to join the triune God in his redemptive mission in the world.