"Ministers are dying men, and live not for ever in this world. They are to look upon themselves as such, and to preach accordingly, as those that must be silenced shortly, and know not which sermon may be the last…

Before you can grow spiritually you need to identify and reject wrong ideas of spiritual growth and maturity.In Colossians 2:16-23, the apostle Paul helps us do that by highlighting three characteristics of the kind of teaching…

"Ministers of the gospel follow the example of their great Master, in the manner in which they seek the salvation and happiness of the souls of men. They should follow his example of love to souls…

“. . . let us also observe that kindheartedness is the mother of patience and continually produces that fruit, and that if we are too stern, it is a sign that there is cruelty in us and that we are like wild beasts…

"The man that understands the evil of his own heart, how vile it is, is the only useful, fruitful, and solid believing and obedient person…

"For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation..." Habakkuk 1:5 Martin Lloyd Jones writes,“Every nation on earth is under the hand of God, for there is no power in this world that is not ultimately controlled by him…

It is not easy to love people well over a long period of time.Even though we know the importance of love, we often have many excuses for giving up. Perhaps this is why the apostle Paul gives us so many different motivations for persevering…

You don't meet many parents who would say they struggle to love their children. But, sometimes that's only because they aren't really thinking about what it means to love. Love is not just a word in the Bible. It's defined by Christ…

I am good at making simple things complicated. There are a lot of us who have the ability to take something that is straightforward and making it confusing and complicated. It is definitely possible to do that when it comes to marriage and family and parenting…

As believers we are interested in changing. We are interested in growing. In fact, if we say we are Christians, and we are not concerned about overcoming sin and becoming more and more like Jesus, then something is going wrong…

When we are thinking about sin and holiness, and change, if we are talking with someone who is not a Christian, they are enslaved to sin, they are under the dominion of sin, they need the gospel…

It seems loving to try to answer every single question every single person has, but it is definitely not wise.It's not wise because there is a kind of person who just doesn't learn. No matter how long you talk with him…

If all Christians struggle. And.If we are saved by what Jesus did. Then why even talk about pursuing holiness? If we are justified. Already. By Jesus. Why talk about being sanctified? Or…

Tim Keller on Jonathan Edward's distinction between true virtue and common virtue: "There are two kinds of moral behavior: “common virtue” and “true virtue.” Let’s take one virtue: honesty…

"...it is ironic that the people you call “secular” biblical scholars look askance at “faith-driven” scholars and accuse them of bias. In my view, it is the other way around: those scholars are the ones…

“Atheism is an idea. Most often (thank God), it is an idea lived and told with blunt jumbo-crayon clumsiness. Some child of Christianity or Judaism dons an unbelieving Zorro costume and preens about the living room.Behold, a dangerous thinker of thinks…

I want us to keep talking about holiness. We are in the middle of a series where we are looking at the Bible and asking, how do people change? Or. If you want a big theological word you could say we are talking about sanctification. And…

If there is one thing wicked people don't like to hear, it is talk of God's judgment. Listen to how the people of Micah's day responded when he told them God would take vengeance on them for their abuse of the poor and vulnerable…