Duty or Delight: What Should Motivate Our Obedience and Service? Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger…
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Heavenly Rewards as Motivation for Holiness Because Paul bases his call to the Christian life on the truth of what Christ has accomplished for us in his death and resurrection…
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When God is Silent: Seeing Him Who is Invisible In his book, Enduring Divine Absence[1], Joseph Minch makes the point that the allurement of atheism does not rest only in…
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Death, Thou Shalt Die “A family of five died in an auto crash after a faulty vehicle veered off its lane to crush them.” “A young woman died during childbirth”…
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What Does it Mean to Love God? While we love to talk about the love of God and how he has manifested that love towards us in innumerable ways, we…
Continue ReadingSuffering and Sanctification: How God Purifies Us Through Our Trials Trials are difficult to bear. But when we believe we are supposed to be immune to them, they become even…
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World-Affirming and World-Denying: The Paradox of the Christian Life Why is it that Christians can heartily sing, “This is my father’s world”[1] and “Is this vile world a friend to…
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Delighting in the Law of God The modern world was founded on freedom. From the French revolution to the American revolution, the secularisation of the west, the decolonisation of the…
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“He went about doing good:” The Call to Good Works As short as it, Paul’s letter to Titus contains one of the most comprehensive descriptions of the Christian life. In…
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Why Sound Doctrine Matters While it is true that one can study theology and be devoid of sanctifying grace in the heart, it is wrong to denigrate theology and reduce…
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