Jesusās encounter with the rich young man has always unsettled me. Iām an American. Iām as middle-class as Americans go, which means I live in a level of affluence and abundance unknown by most of my co-inhabitants of this world today, and by a far,...
Jesusās encounter with the rich young man has always unsettled me. Iām an American. Iām as middle-class as Americans go, which means I live in a level of affluence and abundance unknown by most of my co-inhabitants of this world today, and by a far,...
Take an inventory of your life. What do you own right now? Whatever possessions you have are no accident, and not a product of mere happenstance. At the micro level, Jesus promises to care for even the minutest everyday details, like pocket money a...
Take an inventory of your life. What do you own right now? Whatever possessions you have are no accident, and not a product of mere happenstance. At the micro level, Jesus promises to care for even the minutest everyday details, like pocket money a...
Tucked away in the book of Daniel, sandwiched between stories about fiery furnaces and lions on the one hand, and visions of statues, beasts, and rising kings on the other, is an extended prayer with a shockingly immediate answer. Daniel 9 contains...
Tucked away in the book of Daniel, sandwiched between stories about fiery furnaces and lions on the one hand, and visions of statues, beasts, and rising kings on the other, is an extended prayer with a shockingly immediate answer. Daniel 9 contains...
You have been invited to speak to the God of the universe, the Almighty. Not just the mightiest, but the all-mighty. All power is his, and under his control. And he is the one who made you, and keeps you in existence. This God, the one God ā almig...
You have been invited to speak to the God of the universe, the Almighty. Not just the mightiest, but the all-mighty. All power is his, and under his control. And he is the one who made you, and keeps you in existence. This God, the one God ā almig...
Strict practitioners would not have approved of my methods, but on one long ago mid-winter Wednesday, I smeared ashes on the foreheads of my two preschoolers and myself. An offering of the hardwood that had heated our home the day before, these as...
Strict practitioners would not have approved of my methods, but on one long ago mid-winter Wednesday, I smeared ashes on the foreheads of my two preschoolers and myself. An offering of the hardwood that had heated our home the day before, these as...
One human life in all the Scriptures towers above the others. All who came before anticipated him, and all who follow after orient to him. And thanks to the biographical sketches found in the four Gospels of the New Testament, we know more details ab...
One human life in all the Scriptures towers above the others. All who came before anticipated him, and all who follow after orient to him. And thanks to the biographical sketches found in the four Gospels of the New Testament, we know more details ab...
Had you been there that very moment, watching from a distance, you wouldnāt have observed anything dramatic. Iām talking about the moment Abraham (still called Abram at the time) stepped out of his tent and gazed into the heavens, looking at the star...
Had you been there that very moment, watching from a distance, you wouldnāt have observed anything dramatic. Iām talking about the moment Abraham (still called Abram at the time) stepped out of his tent and gazed into the heavens, looking at the star...
If you want to become wealthy, there are certain things you must understand and certain things you must do. First, you must understand what kind of wealth youāre pursuing and how the economy functions that generates this wealth. Second, you must wise...
If you want to become wealthy, there are certain things you must understand and certain things you must do. First, you must understand what kind of wealth youāre pursuing and how the economy functions that generates this wealth. Second, you must wise...
āWhat a mystery,ā wrote Horatius Bonar, āthe soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another.ā What a mystery, I then thought, that I do not speak more. I gazed out of my window. Three houses stood across the street. Of two, I had t...
āWhat a mystery,ā wrote Horatius Bonar, āthe soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another.ā What a mystery, I then thought, that I do not speak more. I gazed out of my window. Three houses stood across the street. Of two, I had t...
Men professing faith in Christ have been walking away from him since the church began. āSome have made shipwreck of their faith,ā the apostle Paul reports in his first letter to Timothy. In fact, the language of leaving is all over 1ā2 Timothy: me...
Men professing faith in Christ have been walking away from him since the church began. āSome have made shipwreck of their faith,ā the apostle Paul reports in his first letter to Timothy. In fact, the language of leaving is all over 1ā2 Timothy: me...
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abideĀ in the shadow of the Almighty . I will say to the Lord, āMy refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.ā (Psalm 91:1ā2) On January 8, 1956, Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter F...
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abideĀ in the shadow of the Almighty . I will say to the Lord, āMy refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.ā (Psalm 91:1ā2) On January 8, 1956, Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter F...
Forty years ago, John Piper was not sleeping very well. It was October of 1979, and his brain hurt. For the past five months, he had been on a teaching sabbatical from Bethel College, just north of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. It was a scholarās dre...
Forty years ago, John Piper was not sleeping very well. It was October of 1979, and his brain hurt. For the past five months, he had been on a teaching sabbatical from Bethel College, just north of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. It was a scholarās dre...
