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

Living in Tune with the Mercy of Christ the King Matthew 25:31 - 46 Mercy comes from mercy. Our mercy to each other comes from God's mercy to us. The key to becoming a merciful person is to become a broken person. You get the power to show mercy from the real feeling in your heart that you owe everything you are and have to sheer divine mercy. – John Piper If we want to become people marked by mercy, we must first become people who see clearly. This means cultivating the kin

Zechariah 3 She came into the pool barefoot, straight from the men’s bathroom. No one stopped her. No one even seemed to notice. But I...

A summary and reflection on the book by John H. Walton I’ve always been drawn to the harder passages of Scripture—especially ones that...

A summary and reflection on the book by G. K. Beale Have you ever noticed how people can begin to reflect the things they care about...

Finding Strength in God's Power Ephesians 6:10 - 20 Have you ever experienced a life change so significant that even your wardrobe had to...

The Tragic Reality of Idolatry Isaiah 6 The Power of What We Behold We all become like something. The question is, what are we becoming?...

Isaiah 8:19 - 9:7 and Matthew 4:12 - 25 A World in Darkness Have you ever been lost in complete darkness? The fear, the uncertainty, the...

Discipleship as a Change of Kingdom and Direction Matthew 4:12 - 25 The New Testament is a book about disciples, by disciples, and for disciples of Jesus Christ… All of the assurances and benefits offered to humankind in the gospel evidently presuppose such a life and do not make realistic sense apart from it. – Dallas Willard Discipleship is not an optional aspect of Christian faith; it is the context in which we experience the Kingdom of God, salvation, and eternal life. As

A written sermon on Mark 1:1 - 18 Carl Bloch: Sermon on the Mount The Kingdom Has Arrived We live in a world where kingdoms rise and fall—where power structures shape the way we live, and where many of us sense that something is not quite right. We long for something better, something truer, something that does not shift beneath our feet. That longing is not misplaced. It is, in fact, the heartbeat of the biblical story: the story of a kingdom. From Genesis to Revelation, Scr