We live in a world where people have become increasingly isolated from one another. Every day there seems to be some new gadget or app specifically designed to remove us from the actual world we inhab...  Read More

We live in a day and age where the obvious is not so, well, obvious. Some people, like Carl Trueman, have gone to valiant lengths explaining how we got ourselves into this precise predicament, but tha...  Read More

In the movie Bridge of Spies, James Donovan (played by Tom Hanks) is an insurance lawyer who ends up in the middle of Cold War drama when he is appointed to represent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), an ac...  Read More

We’re all familiar with “negative self-talk.” We hear it within our own heads. From time to time we hear someone audibly disparage himself. It’s that condemning, critical voice that says things like, ...  Read More

We live in a reactive world—a world marked by polarity and panic. Whether personally, politically, or professionally, we probably all feel this to some degree or another. We know of our own nervous an...  Read More

“Our eternal, transcendent, all-glorious God, who forever exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is by his very nature a communicative being.”Go ahead and re-read that sentence. Slowly.That is the ve...  Read More

Like the Old Testament men of Issachar, we need to be a people with a proper understanding of the times (cf. 1 Chronicles 12:32). While it certainly isn’t easy to stay aware or ahead of all the signif...  Read More

Throughout life, we experience both highs and lows. On the glorious mountain peaks we see clearly and feel joy and hope. In the dark valleys, we feel deep despair, spiritual dryness, and inner turmoil...  Read More

Do you ever stop and wonder what it means for God to take on human flesh? Do you ever consider why the incarnation of Christ was necessary in the first place?If you find yourself asking either of thos...  Read More

As I said on Sunday, there is simply too much in (and about) Daniel 7 to fully explore in a single sermon. I mentioned that I am approaching Daniel’s visions from a preterist position, and I wanted to...  Read More

In Matthew 4, the devil took Jesus to the pinnacle of the temple in Jerusalem and dared him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning ...  Read More

When we go through hard times, what kind of thoughts about God come into our minds? Do we fight to believe that God is who he says he is, our do we grow suspicious toward God?Deuteronomy 6:16 is unamb...  Read More