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God’s grace is amazing because God is. His tenderness and compassion avalanche upon us from the peaks of his steadfast love and mercy.

As Christians, we have often been trained to fight pride, lust, anxiety, laziness, and other sins. But do we know how to war with Satan?

Satan is a fierce predator. He has devoured souls of men and women, children and the elderly. He hates none more than Christians. Can he destroy them?

The grace of God saves us. The grace of God frees us. The grace of God enslaves us. The grace of God keeps us.

While the world sings sweet lullabies to try and destroy us, God calls us to joyful wakefulness. Our eternity hangs on how we respond.

Women are saved by faith in Christ. In what sense then, according to 1 Timothy 2:15, are they saved through childbirth?

The Bible is serious about two realities: God cares for, saves, and protects his people, and his people need to be alert, active, and aggressive against Satan and sin.

Anxieties attack our faith and torment our peace. The question with anxiety is not whether it will come, but rather, how can I fight it when it does?

Righteousness is a big deal for every single person on the planet. In this lab, John Piper shows why Jesus being perfect on our behalf does not free us from pursuing perfection.

Pride not only multiplies the weight of our anxieties, but makes our loving Creator, our honorable King, our gracious God into our omnipotent enemy.

The world scratches and fights each other in order to be exalted. The church joyfully submits to each other in order to exalt their King.

Does God reward pastors for their service? And if so, doesn’t that contaminate the pure aims of loving others?

The world’s CEOs often are ambitious, stern, and overworked. The church’s leaders need to be happy, holy, and humble.

Pastors cannot be men who preach what others should practice, but do not practice what they preach.

Silence from family and friends is one thing, silence from God is another. But no matter how hard it is, we must trust that he is working all things for our good.

If God has not redeemed you, nothing will make you choose God over your sin. If God has chosen you, no scheme of Satan can keep you from choosing him.

Unconditional election means that God chose his people without them first meeting any conditions. God’s choice does not depend on our works, faith, or beauty, but rather his choice creates each in us.

When our thoughts have been unruly, our hearts hard, our deeds despicable, when we teeter from the devastation of sin and straddle the precipice of hell, cry out to God for mercy.

All thoughts are not created equal, all opinions are not valid, and no worldview matters but God’s.

While the world threatens, the Christian serves. As the world imprisons, the Christian prays. When the world does evil, the Christian does good.

The baby lay in the manger and the man hung on the cross, that by his life and death we would be free to enjoy God forever.

When a Christian Hedonist says, “Merry Christmas,” he means much more than a warm holiday with friends and family.

How Jesus Christ came to lay in the cradle, has massive implications for what he did on the cross.

Although the world may send us into its furnace for not bowing our knees, we know that the Son of God is with us in the flames.

No matter how bad your sufferings are in this life, rejoice that they can only cut so deep and last for so long.

It’s hard to hear in the moment that God is sovereign over our suffering, but in the long run it makes all the difference.

If the Father judged Jesus on our behalf, doesn’t that mean that we won’t be?

We know we should never be ashamed of Jesus. But when that coworker asks, or that relative puts us on the spot, we can be slow to own the name Christian.

Non-believers often tell Christians to mind their own business. They may be more right than we might think.

The cross defangs the fatal bite of sin — but it can still have devastating consequences. Don't consider yourself to be a martyr when you suffer because of your sin.

We read stories about Christians being horrifically persecuted for their love of Christ. We marvel at their endurance and secretly wonder: if I were in their place, would I endure?

For the joy set before him, Jesus endured suffering. For the joy set before us, we must also.

Jesus was persecuted. Many in the early church were persecuted. Many Christians today are persecuted. You also will be persecuted.

God invites us to cast our cares upon him because he cares for us. How can we do that honestly and yet not complain in a way that dishonors him?

Those who know the horrors of war are thankful for peace. Those who understand justice get excited about grace. Christian, grace and peace are yours.

God gives gifts to his people to bless others. If you want to glorify God: steward your gifts, speak God’s words, and serve with God’s strength.

When we speak, we speak in God’s power and with God’s words. When we serve, we serve in his power and point to his glory.

Sin is a sticky, entangling web that traps and blinds those who live in it. But where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Spiritual gifts do not lift us above others, they empower us to lower ourselves in the service of others.

Birthday gifts have your name on them because they are meant for you. God’s new-birth gift has your name on it but is meant for others.

The God who spoke light into the world speaks light into our souls, opening our blind eyes and dawning new affections for him.

Few can endure being around grumblers. Heaven forbid that Christians, inheritors of the world, would be called complainers.

People can annoy us with their needs. Our selfishness transforms loved ones into inconveniences. But God calls us to more than begrudging hospitality.

Others’ sin confronts us daily, and daily we must choose how to respond to it. Denial dismisses their sin, indifference ignores it, anger attacks it, bitterness buries it — love alone covers it.

Psychologists cannot counsel him. Philosophers cannot instruct him. Billionaires cannot add to his treasures. He owns all, funds all, receives all. To him be praise forevermore.

The world as we know it passes away, we must then be people who watch and pray.

Sexuality, worldliness, Netflix, and all kinds of distractions compete daily for our thoughts. We cannot give our minds over to the enemy — we must think hard to the glory of God.

We live in a peculiar age: battles rage but the war is won, spring dawns and summer looms, Christ came and is coming back.

Even as Christians, sin still lingers in our shadow. How do we pray for the light of God’s grace to expel our darkness?

The Bible says that the gospel was “preached to the dead” (1 Peter 4:6). Does this mean that someone can hear the gospel and repent after death?