Practicing The Presence Of Christ

I have forgotten the number of times I have been morally defeated through my own sinful flesh. Luckily, so has God. The difference is that Satan loves to remind my how many times I’ve gone to the throne of grace seeking forgiveness of my sins. Satan tries to...

Loving Like Paul (Part 3)

If we’re going to love like Paul, then we need the grace of God to do so. Look at the first two verses of Paul’s letter: “Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace...

The Immutability Of His Counsel

I love the prologue by Charles Colson in the 1994 Steven Curtis Chapman song “Heaven in the Real World”: “Where is the hope? I meet millions of people who feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has is not in who governs us, or what...

Sharing Holiness

Can you imagine finding something so amazing, so pure, so transformative but you are not allowed to share this good news with anyone? Thankfully our Lord Jesus does not expect that of us. In fact He expects quite the opposite: “And Jesus came and spoke to them,...