You can’t make sense of the early parts of Ecclesiastes if you haven’t read all the way to the end of Ecclesiastes. Likewise, you can’t really make sense of the end of Ecclesiastes if you haven’t read through the early chapters of Ecclesiastes.
Rather than starting with the question, “Will this honor God?” too many churches begin with the question, “Will this work, and will this produce results?”
When we learn that the LORD of hosts is also the God of Jacob, we find gospel hope.
After almost two decades of pastoring, I think it’s harder for most believers to rejoice when other parts of the body are honored than to suffer when other parts of the body are suffering.
Will I listen to and accept the wisdom of God as revealed in 1 Timothy, or will I embrace the wisdom of the world? No one will be able to do both.
As we come to the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, I pray that you know the good news of Jesus Christ. This good news is rooted in the truth about the one true God.
One of the oddest questions that popped up in 2005, 2011, and 2016 is the question of whether or not churches should have Sunday services when Christmas falls on a Sunday.
There are two myths floating around in our political discourse, and we must be done with both of these myths.
I don’t think you need me to convince you that suffering is an inevitable part of life. Instinctively and experientially, we know that suffering is unavoidable, and that means we ought to listen when the Bible speaks directly about suffering.
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