Look at the Book

How do we gain victory over a sin that continually tempts us with the promise of pleasure?

How do we know what a biblical author means when he uses words that we almost never use?

Paul seems extremely shy to mention the Spirit in Colossians. He does so explicitly only once. Why might that be?

When sinfulness remains and newness of life delays, how should Christians make sense of it all?

Nothing on earth can compete with the worth of Christ, so we are called to seek him with all our hearts and minds.

Grace upon grace, resurrection from the dead, transformation into unimaginable glory, and the unceasing company of our Lord — can you imagine?

One day we will all shine like the sun. What will our now-hidden lives look like on that day?

Christ is our life now, but how do we experience that life? Scripture illuminates how this life flows to Christians through faith.

Why is it significant that Jesus sits at the right hand of God? Exult in the current physical location of Christ.

Satan entices us to believe that our sin defines us. How does unity with Christ forever change the way we battle that lie?

Death precedes true life. Christ exemplifies this, and we follow in his footsteps. How should this change how we live?

Christ calls his disciples to be doers of the word, not hearers only. How does our union with Christ relate to obeying his commands?

Christians have died to man-made worship and any religious effort that would try to commend them to God apart from Christ.

God has provided one Mediator between God and man, and he is far greater than any heavenly or fallen angel.

If Christianity is rooted in the Old Testament, why are Christians not keeping so much of what God commanded there?

Through his crucifixion, Christ silenced the accuser, nullified the terror of death, and delivered sinners from the dominion of sin.

Does it satisfy the standards of God’s justice for an innocent one to die for the guilty?

God obliterates our record of debt by nailing it to the cross through the substitutionary death of Christ.

The plights of our sinful state — deadness, blindness, hardness, and inability — were all resolved decisively in the moment God made us alive.

Death before life is the testimony of all who really live. Do you know how bleak things were before God brought you to life?

Our union with Christ in his death and resurrection should tangibly, observably define how we live in this world.

What is the body of the flesh, and how do you put it off? What exactly is cut away in this “circumcision of Christ”?

Christians have received a circumcision that is “made without hands.” What is this circumcision, and what does it do?

To be filled in Christ is to possess the riches of his inexhaustible love, unsearchable wisdom, and unrivaled rule.

The incarnation of the Son of God reveals any denigrating of the human body as a man-made, deceitful philosophy.

Christ is the treasure chest of wisdom and knowledge. Any philosophy that would exclude him excludes Wisdom himself.

Faith rooted in Christ, built on him as its firm foundation, will not be blown about by every new gust of doctrine.

Many people are deceived by false teaching and lost while believing that they know the truth. How do we resist such deceptions?

Communities bound together in love will better know the great riches of Christ than communities divided by rivalry.

God gives good gifts to his church when he gives her good men to serve as pastors. The work is challenging, but worth every sacrifice.

When we put our hands to the plow of our Christian lives, we cannot leave prayer behind. God gives the strength we need; he must work within us.

Our growth in Christ can seem so slow and the road so long, but we can take comfort knowing that God himself is maturing us.

The welcoming of the nations into the unspeakable hope of the glory of God is the mystery revealed to the elect in the gospel of Christ.

What is lacking in Christ’s afflictions? The personal, bodily, costly presentation of his love to the elect through missionaries.

Paul understood his sufferings for the gospel as an essential means to bring about the salvation of the elect.

The New Testament provides at least six reasons for why Christians embrace the trials they undergo with joy.

God is no tribal deity. He will see to it that his gospel reaches every tribe, people, language, and nation under heaven.

God uses the warning passages of Scripture to stimulate us to fight for faith. And he uses that fight to keep us safe until the end.

God achieves reconciliation at the cross and applies it to us through faith, and he does it all to bring the elect to himself.

Alienated. Enemies. Evil. We won’t revel as we ought in the reconciling work of Christ unless we know who we were without him.

When God finishes his reconciling work, there will be nothing left unreconciled to him.

The central truths of the gospel of reconciliation are bound up in the mystery of the Trinity.

The one who humbly stoops to save his people is the infinitely supreme Creator and Upholder of all things.

God created all things through the Son so that all might know the beauty and glory and supremacy of the Son.

When Scripture calls Jesus “the firstborn of creation,” he doesn’t mean firstborn as part of creation.

Through faith, Christians are delivered from bondage to Satan and transferred to the kingdom of the Son.

At the cross, Satan’s one weapon of damnation is taken away. Jesus’s sacrifice cancels our record of debt.

To be a Christian means God delivered you from the rule of Satan to live under the rule of God’s beloved Son.

The Father has mercifully and freely adopted us into his family and placed us in the bright kingdom of his Son.

What produces the kind of strength we need to patiently and joyfully endure? The glory of God.