Character, Behavior & Discernment
Don’t Fail to Act, Be a Doer of the WordChristians are a people called to action. It’s not just enough to know about God, you have to literally practice what is preached.
Christian Living
Learn about what it means to live as a Christian, to become more like Christ and to handle the ups and downs of life as a believer with discernment and wisdom.
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Character, Behavior & Discernment
Ask the Pastor: How Should Christians Dress? What About Modesty Versus Legalism?Focused on hemlines, hypocrisy threatens; focused on God’s holiness, faithfulness grows.
Character, Behavior & Discernment Truth, Reality & Identity
Experiencing Freedom in Jesus – Embrace Your New IdentityWho God says we are matters far more than who we think we are.
Church & Community
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Church & Community
Ask the Pastor: What About Internet Pastors?We are shaped Lord’s Day by Lord’s Day as we come together under the ordinary means of grace to hear ordinary men of God care for ordinary souls in light of the anything-but-ordinary gospel of grace.
Church & Community
Ask the Pastor: I Don’t Love God’s People Like I ShouldLove requires me to seek restoration of fellowship in humility, even when no offense was meant and no sinful failure to love consciously occurred.
Church & Community Ecclesiology Ministry
Ask the Pastor: How Should We Approach Race in the Church?God’s love goes to the nations, irrespective of ethnicity, and brings near the blessings of his grace in Jesus. Our love must be transcendent like that.
Difficulties in the Christian Life
11 articles
Attributes of God Difficulties in the Christian Life Evil & Suffering Soteriology
What Do You Do When Someone Already Knows the Answer? – Jonah, Nineveh, and Answering the Real ObjectionAnyone who has spent time answering objections to the Christian faith learns that the question a person asks is not always the question he is disputing.
Difficulties in the Christian Life Soteriology
What Is Assurance of Salvation? Part 1 – In God’s HandsJesus teaches that believers will live forever, that they will never die, and that nothing can ever take them out of his hands or out of God the Father's hands.
Difficulties in the Christian Life Evil & Suffering Prayer
When God Doesn’t Give Us What We Want – A Devotional from 2 Corinthians 12:7–10Christ is not only good when He gives. He remains good when He withholds, redirects, or says no.
Marriage & Family
3 articles
Marriage & Family
Ask the Pastor: What Sort of Man Should I Marry?Scripture calls men to be men—mighty in the Lord, faithful to their wives, and deadly serious about the Cross of Christ.
Marriage & Family
Ask the Pastor: Was It a Sin for David and Solomon to Have Multiple Wives?Having multiple wives in Scripture is reported, but never approved.
Marriage & Family
The Bible States Women Are to Be Subject to Their Husbands. Is This a Put Down of Women?What woman would object to submitting herself to a husband who loved her as much as Christ loved the church?
Prayer
3 articles
Difficulties in the Christian Life Evil & Suffering Prayer
When God Doesn’t Give Us What We Want – A Devotional from 2 Corinthians 12:7–10Christ is not only good when He gives. He remains good when He withholds, redirects, or says no.
Prayer
The Importance of Praying for YourselfSelf-prayer is not selfish. It is not self-exalting prayer, it is prayer steeped in self-awareness. It is saying “God I need You, and I want You."
Prayer
Ask the Pastor: How Can I Pray for the Salvation of Those Who Do Not Know Christ?Here are some things I try to pray when I’m not sure what or how to pray for lost people...
Spiritual Habits
2 articles
Evil & Suffering Spiritual Habits
Spiritual Warfare Part 1 – What Does Spiritual Warfare Actually Look Like?Spiritual evil is real, but our confidence rests in Jesus Christ: the Lord who delivers, the Savior who triumphs, and the One in whose strength we stand.
General Doctrine Spiritual Habits
How to Read the BibleThe Bible is God's complete, final and only revelation to man. It is the most indispensable resource we have for knowing God. These 3x5 cards offer quick tips to help people properly understand and apply Scripture.