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God Made the World for Worship: His Glory in Individuals and Gatherings
The individual soul’s affection for God is essential to the corporate, eternal reality of the worshiping church.
3 years, 6 months ago
How Is Joy the Root of Sacrificial Love?
When glad in God, we bend low in love for others. We imitate Christ, who not only bowed the knee but hung his body on the tree.
3 years, 7 months ago
Good Preaching Takes Hard Work
David Mathis | Good preachers carry many burdens before preaching, while preaching, and after preaching — and the rewards still outweigh the costs.
3 years, 7 months ago
Water from the Rock for Undeserving People
God promises us his life-sustaining presence, even as he leads us into waterless regions of suffering and loss.
3 years, 9 months ago
God Can Handle Your Crisis
David Mathis | Psalm 46 teaches us God can handle the earth’s undoing and nations raging against his people — and that if he can do that, he can be a…
3 years, 9 months ago
Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away
Faith does not shipwreck upon the rocks of history, logic, science, or ethics, but on the mountains of sinful desire.
3 years, 10 months ago
The Uncommon Virtue of Humility
Humility flourishes in hearts that focus not on being humble, but on gladly exalting Jesus, who is superior to us in every possible way.
3 years, 11 months ago
Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It
There is a kind of unhealthy preaching that fails to make plain the effective connection between the sin-bearing work of Christ and the sin-killing w…
3 years, 11 months ago
Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News
David Mathis | What if, with some intentionality, the news could become a source of refreshment rather than a continual distraction and discouragemen…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ
David Mathis | We boast on Sunday because Christ died on Friday. No cross, no favor with God. No crucifixion, no resurrection. We live because he die…
3 years, 11 months ago