Faith means thanking God in triumphs and trusting God in tragedies, and in all circumstances looking to the "better resurrection" promised to those in Christ.
Christian living involves dissonance and desire. Dissonance with this world because it isn’t our true home. Desire for the next world because we’ll be truly at home in God’s city.
Abel pleased God with his faithful sacrifice. None of his words are recorded in Scripture, yet his life of faith still speaks, even to us today, forever pointing to Jesus.
Today’s idols are understated compared to golden statues, but this only makes it easier to worship them. Christians are to faithfully obey our God’s commands, trusting he is for us…
Where do we ultimately place our trust? Jesus teaches that the degree of our generosity gives evidence of the disposition of our hearts—whether we have an immediate and worldly mindset…
In Mary we see extraordinary faith in the most ordinary of persons. God is the grace-giving actor in this passage, but Mary’s response of childlike faith should be a model…
The path of righteousness involves anger without sin, practicing hospitality, and loving the poor. But each step on that path we owe to our sovereign God who loves us.
God promises true rest to his people. In ancient times and still today, we enter it only by faith. True believers will enter his rest as his Word trains us…
Moses was respected as God’s faithful servant, but Jesus is to be worshiped as God’s faithful Son. Christians are to consider Jesus and hold fast to our hope.
Angels are impressive, but Jesus is much superior. Angels minister to and serve God’s people, but Jesus is to be worshiped by God’s people.