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1 Thessalonians 4 - Excelling in Separateness: Love and Work
Since our sovereign God is never in a state of panic, then God’s people who reflect God's character shouldn't be either.
1 Thessalonians 4 - Excelling in Separateness
The church is made up of followers of Jesus that are growing, excelling, and hungry for more of Him. They are striving for holiness, separateness, and fleeing assimilation into worldliness in the categories of sexuality, work, and their beliefs about death and dying.
1 Thessalonians 2 - 3 - The Cost of a Biblical Leader
Biblical leaders invest unrecoverable resources in those they lead, and they stand on unchangeable convictions as they lead.
1 Thessalonians 2 - The Church of the Word of God
The Biblical Church will be receptive, attentive, and responsive to the word of God, and in standing in God’s Grace alone will humbly enduring persecution will provoke the privileged.
1 Thessalonians 2 - The Appearance of a Biblical Leader
As Paul gives a defense for his leadership, he helps prepare us to build and defend such leaders by giving us a Biblical picture of healthy leadership grounded in our view of the family.
1 Thessalonians 2 - The Anatomy of a Biblical Leader
As Paul gives a defense for his leadership, he helps prepare us to build and defend such leaders by giving us a Biblical picture of healthy leadership grounded in our theological convictions.
1 Thessalonians 1 - Imitators of Christ
Christ has done something for us that, when our eyes are opened to it and we trust in it completely, causes us to begin to lead others in imitating him as we throw off all forms of false rescue.
1 Thessalonians 1 - Fully Convinced by the Spirit
The Gospel comes by the power of the Holy Spirit with full confidence of our sin and sinfulness and our complete pardon in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 - The Gospel Received as Power
The Good News of who Jesus is and what He has done confronts us with power and calls us to revel in the God who saves us.
John 4 - Living Water for a Thirsty Soul
Your soul was made to need and desire deep and eternal satisfaction in God.
2 Kings 5 - Gospel Clarity in Community
We are often oblivious to the things in our lives that are obvious to others.
Psalm 117 - Mission to Praise
God has, in Jesus Christ, esteemed us with a gift of the highest cost, so we join all the nations of the earth in granting Him the highest glory.
Psalm 116: Part 2 - Faith and Rest in the Face of Death
God’s goodness in hearing and answering prayer leads us to continual thanksgiving, praise, and sustained prayer and communion; even in the face of death.
Psalm 116: Part 1 - Hope, Comfort, Praise
God’s goodness in hearing and answering prayer leads us to continual thanksgiving, praise, and sustained prayer and communion with Him.
Galatians 2 - The True Status Quo
Jesus resolves the irreconcilable differences between a perfect and holy God and sinful people and turns them into unstoppable forces for His glory.
Psalm 22: Part 2 - From Prayer to Proclamation
Trouble and perplexity drive us to earnest prayer and earnest prayer drives away trouble and perplexity.
Psalm 22: Part 1 - From Abandonment to Prayer
In Psalm 22 we see both suffering and glory side by side and are stretched to believe that one leads to the other to the extent that we begin to anticipate both the sufferings of Christ and the glory to follow.
Psalm 19 - The Work and Word of God
A high view of God as creator and sustainer and a high view of God as righteous judge allows us to look to Him as the one who can declare us innocent and lead us toward His purposes.
Psalm 5
Psalm 4
Psalm 3
2 Corinthians 1:3-11 - The God of All Comfort
Suffering is a universal experience. Comfort is a universal need. God's word is filled to the brim with comforting truth. 2nd Corinthians teaches that comfort comes from a relationship, is found in a biblical perspective, and is found when we use our suffering to love others.
DNA - Disciple-Making Disciples (Matthew 4)
The goal of a disciple of Jesus is to leverage what they have for the sake of drawing others into glory of Christ. (Fishers of Men)
Jonah 4 - Humility for the Mission
Jonah repents by telling a story about himself in which he is not the hero; the Grace of God is.
Jonah 4 - Forgiveness for the Mission
If your identity isn’t as a forgiven person; then it will be in vengeance or avoidance, and Mission will be impossible.
Jonah 4 - Grace for the Mission
While Jonah’s transformation by God’s grace propels him to the mission, the mission exposes his need for ongoing transformation by Grace.
Jonah 3 - Humble Pursuit
When God restores you, he restores you to His purpose in the world.
Jonah 2 - Salvation Belongs to the Lord
Genuine repentance ends with addressing lordship and idolatry, by admitting that there is a real and eternal cost to sin, and a pleasure in the grace of God once the sin is out in the open.
Jonah 1 - The Grace of God is Waiting
When God asks a hard thing of us, the painful truth about us is revealed; and God’s transforming grace in the form of a willing substitute and a miraculous deliverance is patiently waiting to catch us.
Jonah 1 - Hope in the Form of a Storm
Jonah 1:1-3 - The Word of the Lord Comes, and People Flee
When God speaks, everything changes. His Word, a sacred text, exposes our sacred text and illuminates who we are at the core.
Ecclesiastes 12 - Easter
The sovereign freedom of God, the limits of human wisdom, thoughts on the use and abuse of wealth and power, and the brevity and absolute contingency of human life—all lead to the command to fear God.
Ecclesiastes 11 - Bold Investments, Generous Giving, and Wise Living
Faith in a Sovereign God is visible in investments and generosity. Faith in a Sovereign God is visible in enjoying life by beholding how precious it is.
Ecclesiastes 10 - Principles of Wisdom
For those of us who are in Christ Jesus, “who became to us wisdom from God” according to 1 Corinthians 1:30, wisdom in this fallen world under the sun is of supreme value.
Ecclesiastes 9-10 - Wisdom & Folly
Godly wisdom is to live in such a way in this life “under the sun” that points and testifies to the reality beyond the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9
Godly wisdom is to live in such a way in this life “under the sun” points and testifies to the reality beyond the sun.
Ecclesiastes 8
There is one who was righteous who was treated according to the deeds of the wicked so that the wicked might be treated according to the deeds of the righteous. His name is Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 7 - What God has done. What sin has done.
Ecclesiastes 6 - Contentment, Rest, and Other Things Money Can't Buy
Those who have much, yet do not know Christ, will never stop craving and never find rest.
Ecclesiastes 5 - Religion, Politics, and Money
Ecclesiastes 4 - Oppression, Individual Pursuits, Community, and The Coming King
Since the world is full of trouble by reason of humanity’s corporate and individual depravity, the only solace can be found in genuine, deeply rooted community and the Coming King.
Ecclesiastes 3 - God's Timing
We are called to take heart in the ultimate purpose, nearness, and timing of God.
Ecclesiastes 2 - Enjoyment Apart From God
We cannot look to the finished work of Christ until we become displeased with our own work.
Ecclesiastes 1 - Anti-Motivation
To despair of things that are not God is the beginning of joy in God.