In this article, I want to share one key attitude, two fundamental commitments, and three basic presuppositions that are necessary to benefit from the Old Testament. One Key Attitude If you're going to benefit from the Old Testament, you need to approach it with humility...

What do you set your mind on? I will tell you one reason that is an important question. In Philippians 3:19 Paul describes those who walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. “Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with their mind set on earthly things.”

Many of us have been trained to be polite. And I suppose that most of the time that is a good thing, especially if that politeness is motivated by love…

If there’s anything you want to become really good at, it’s speaking the right word. And to speak the right word, obviously, you have to do some thinking about what the right word is. I’ll give you just a couple ideas…

The way God has changed believers should change believers.After reminding us in Colossians 3:1 of the fact we have been raised with Christ, Paul goes on to show…

I think we’ve all had times where we knew what to do but we didn’t really know how to do it. And. Sometimes that can be frustrating. Obviously. Knowing what to do, but not knowing how…

In Paul’s day, some people thought the body was bad. And physical things were bad. Which meant if you were going to free your soul to really worship God you had to punish your body and stay away from certain stuff…

If we are going to grow spiritually we have to reject wrong ideas about growing spiritually. Which, sounds tough, I know, but it's real. There are very wrong ideas about spirituality that will do us serious damage…

Before you can grow spiritually you need to identify and reject wrong ideas of spiritual growth and maturity.In Colossians 2:16-23, the apostle Paul helps us do that by highlighting three characteristics of the kind of teaching…

It is not easy to love people well over a long period of time.Even though we know the importance of love, we often have many excuses for giving up. Perhaps this is why the apostle Paul gives us so many different motivations for persevering…

You don't meet many parents who would say they struggle to love their children. But, sometimes that's only because they aren't really thinking about what it means to love. Love is not just a word in the Bible. It's defined by Christ…

I am good at making simple things complicated. There are a lot of us who have the ability to take something that is straightforward and making it confusing and complicated. It is definitely possible to do that when it comes to marriage and family and parenting…

As believers we are interested in changing. We are interested in growing. In fact, if we say we are Christians, and we are not concerned about overcoming sin and becoming more and more like Jesus, then something is going wrong…

When we are thinking about sin and holiness, and change, if we are talking with someone who is not a Christian, they are enslaved to sin, they are under the dominion of sin, they need the gospel…

It seems loving to try to answer every single question every single person has, but it is definitely not wise.It's not wise because there is a kind of person who just doesn't learn. No matter how long you talk with him…

If all Christians struggle. And.If we are saved by what Jesus did. Then why even talk about pursuing holiness? If we are justified. Already. By Jesus. Why talk about being sanctified? Or…

Tim Keller on Jonathan Edward's distinction between true virtue and common virtue: "There are two kinds of moral behavior: “common virtue” and “true virtue.” Let’s take one virtue: honesty…

I want us to keep talking about holiness. We are in the middle of a series where we are looking at the Bible and asking, how do people change? Or. If you want a big theological word you could say we are talking about sanctification. And…

Temptation wins when it gets you to stop trusting God and start thinking you need to take matters into your own hands. As Martin Luther once said,“That’s the sin underneath all our sins…