Are you scared today? Are you hurting? Perhaps you’re struggling with addictions or bad habits. Maybe you’re stuck in an abusive relationship. Maybe you’re worried about your health, or the health of someone you love. Or maybe, as you look at the chaos careening through our culture, you’re just anxious…

“Christianity should be rejected because it supports patriarchy and looks down on women!” Perhaps you’ve heard something like this before – maybe you’ve even entertained such thoughts. But the first few verses of John chapter 8 should set this notion to rest. For the fact is that Jesus always insisted…

“Where two or three have gathered in my name, there I am in their midst” (Matthew 18:20). This promise is often cited when Christians gather for worship or prayer to assure us of Christ’s presence. But this passage makes clear that Jesus originally intended His words to apply to church…

It isn’t just backwoods fire-and-brimstone preachers who talk about Hell, you know. Isaiah’s vision of the new heavens and the new earth includes the eternal torment of those who have sinned against God, saying that “their worm does not die and their fire is not quenched.” And of course in…

Why is the Church so important? Why do we have to bother with organized religion? Can’t we just be spiritual? Lots of people ask these questions, and this passage has a lot to say about all of them. The main action of this passage is Peter’s statement of faith. After…

What do you want from Jesus? After He had filled 5000 families with one boy’s lunch, the crowd knew what they wanted – they wanted Jesus to be their king so he would keep that gravy train rolling. And so they followed Jesus back across the lake and badgered Him…

What do you need for successful ministry? We usually think in terms of buildings and budgets, but Jesus didn’t mention either of these things to His disciples as they set out on their first mission trip. Instead we find three items of much greater importance. In Mark 6:7, we notice…

It all happened just as Jesus said it would. The Book of Acts records how Peter and John were arrested and beaten, and how James was put to death with a sword. John wrote the Book of Revelation from an island called Patmos, where he was sent into exile. The…

When we hear the parable of the Sower and the Soils, most of the time we jump immediately to self-diagnosis, wondering which kind of soil we might be. And it is a good thing to be aware of how Satan works in people’s lives. His most powerful tool, as 4:15…

Once we’ve been saved, why has Jesus left us in this world? Once we’ve trusted in Him as Savior and bowed the knee to Him as Lord, why doesn’t He just whisk us off into Heaven the way He did with Enoch (Genesis 5:24)? Well, what can we do here…