Psalm 50 I recently came across this quite shocking quote by A. W. Tozer: “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” At first, that sounds like an overstatement. We tend to believe that what matters most is what we say or do. But Tozer is pointing us toward something deeper. What we believe about God ultimately shapes everything else—our worship, our desires, our fears, and the direction of our lives. What we believe about God sh

Jesus’ call to follow Him is a call to entrust every part of life to His loving lordship. Mark 10:17–31 Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to ma

Luke 24:13 - 35 At the end of his Gospel, Luke brings us into a quiet but deeply revealing moment. Just days earlier, everything had seemed full of promise. Jesus had entered Jerusalem to shouts of praise, and it appeared that the long-awaited hopes of Israel were finally unfolding. Here was the one who taught with authority, who healed the sick, welcomed the outsider, and spoke of a kingdom marked by mercy, justice, and restoration. And yet, almost as quickly as hope had ris

The grace of God compels us to follow Jesus with intentional, costly devotion. Luke 14:15 - 35 This is what we mean by cheap grace, the grace which amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and from whom sin departs... Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is