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When we are commanded to walk worthily, are we ultimately responsible or does God do this in us?

What does it mean to walk worthily of our calling? Does it mean we finally become deserving of our salvation?

The hope of the Christian calling is precious beyond measure. We walk toward a glory we can’t rightly imagine.

God calls us out of the tomb, out of death, out of condemnation, and out of slavery to sin. We are called into life and joy and freedom in Christ.

The radical life change that Paul calls for in Ephesians is built upon radical truths about God.

Join John Piper as he walks through the first three chapters of Ephesians, showing how the main points relate, all in under twelve minutes.

Do you have moments when you pause from your work, your studies, your responsibilities, your conversations to praise God? Oh, for hearts of worship.

We need more than descriptions of God’s love for us. We need the Spirit to help us know and feel God’s love for us.

Go wide with Christ, go long with Christ, go high with Christ, go deep with Christ. Ask God to immerse you in the love of Christ.

If every Christian already has the Spirit of God, why does Paul pray that the Spirit would dwell in believers’ hearts through faith?

The strength we need for the Christian life is not a strength we possess naturally. We need to be strengthened in the inner man through the Spirit.

How do you determine what a phrase like “the riches of his glory” might mean? Join John Piper as he walks through how he draws truth and reality out of Scripture.

O God, give us strength to comprehend the fullness of your love, that we might be filled with your fullness.

Believers everywhere and throughout time are a new family called by a new name: children of God.

Prayer comes before and after teaching because God must reveal the truth to us for doctrine to have any lasting effect on us.

When a man of God goes to be with the Lord, he is not to be pitied. We can rejoice for him as a man who made it home.

How do we increase our joy in the access we have to our holy God? Through increasing our faith in the crucified Christ.

Nothing that transpired in history as part of God’s saving plan was decided within history. Whatever happens now was planned long ago.

As the church preaches the gospel, demons are forced to watch and relive the glory of God’s triumph over evil.

We use the word “church” over and over in the Christian life, but what exactly does the word really mean?

Preaching, reading, thinking, praying can only get us so far. God must open eyes, awaken souls, enlighten minds, and answer prayer.

That the riches of Christ are unsearchable means that heaven will never become boring — that joy in God will never end.

We need grace to be saved, and to be kept saved. We need power to be made alive, and continual power to be kept alive.

The wonder of the cosmos is how wicked men can boldly approach the throne of the Holy One.

Reading is essential in the Christian life. But not just any reading will do. We must be good readers because God wrote a book.

Were men like the apostle Peter wrong to question the inclusion of the Gentiles in God’s people? Was it hinted in the Old Testament?

The great mystery revealed to Paul was that the Gentiles, former enemies of God, would be brought near by the blood of Christ.

The apostle Paul so believed in the goodness of God that when he suffered and was imprisoned for Christ, he counted it all as grace.

Do you hunger to be with God’s people? God is experienced in our gatherings in ways he cannot be experienced alone.

Are there still prophets today? And how did the prophets function alongside the apostles in the early church?

What exactly is the relationship between Israel in the old covenant and the church in the new?

We lived in fear that we would face the God of wrath in our sin, until Christ came and died so that we might call God, “Father.”

The crescendo of our salvation is that, together with the rest of God’s people, we have God as our Father.

The fundamental problem in our societies is not strife between man and man but strife between God and man.

The reason that Jew and Gentile are now one new man in Christ is because the law has been abolished. What does that mean?

The people of Christ cannot simply give up and walk away from each other in conflict, because we are a part of the same body.

In ripping down the barrier between God and his people, the cross also tore down the barrier between us as people.

All who do not have Christ do not have God. And those who do not have Christ and God do not have hope. So, do you have Christ?

If we are not Jews, is it right to say that we share in the covenant promises of the Old Testament?

Do you have to become an Israelite to enjoy the promises of God? The answer, far from being straightforward, might surprise you.

Gentiles were born apart from Christ, apart from God’s people, apart from God’s promises, apart from hope, and apart from God.

Why is circumcision, of all the different things that could have been, the sign of the covenant between God and Israel?

Forever and always the banner of eternal life reads, “Salvation belongs to the Lord.” This fact will forever bring us low and lift our praises high.

The apostle Paul commands us to remember and to forget in his letters. When should we remember, and when should we forget?

Jesus was not American, not African, not Asian, not European. The Messiah came as a Jew from the Jews, and that matters.

In every good deed, God is active and working. Even our good works will ultimately be ascribed to the glory of God.

In Christ, we get a new legal standing before the judgment seat of God and a new nature to live before men.

Christ has not only saved us from the wrath of God, but transformed us and saved us from the sinful nature that destined us for that wrath.

God saves sinners by his grace alone to obliterate all human boasting in his presence. Is this good news for sinners?

If I am commanded to believe the gospel, is faith something I create, or is it a gift of God?