How can we be sure that we are saved? This is an important and sometimes challenging question for Christians. We are saved by grace through faith alone but sometimes our indwelling sin continues to harass us on the road to holiness and we struggle with knowing for sure that we are saved. I believe this …
“By This We Know”: Assurance of Faith in John’s Epistles Read More »
The body of Christ is one body. It has many members but it is not many bodies. It is a matter of “many” making up “one”. As I wrote about last week, the oneness and unity of Christ’s body, the Church, is a central part of our identity as the people of God. God’s kingdom …
When the Lord Jesus Christ taught us to pray, He instructed us to petition our Heavenly Father that His kingdom would come and His will would be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matt. 6:9-10). There are a number of things this may mean. It expresses the petition that all the earth would …
Human worth, from a Christian perspective, is rooted in the identity of humans as image-bearers of God. We are told in the very first chapter of the Bible that: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over …
What Does It Mean to Be Made in the Image of God? Read More »
After a month-long break, we pick up again with the third of Isaiah’s Servant Songs in Isaiah 50:4-9. The Lord God has given methe tongue of those who are taught,that I may know how to sustain with a wordhim who is weary.Morning by morning he awakens;he awakens my earto hear as those who are taught. …
“But the Lord GOD Helps Me” (Isaiah’s Servant Songs Pt. 3) Read More »
The themes of the book of Genesis are many. There are many threads that one can trace through the narrative that tie the book together. One that I want to focus on in this article is the theme of enmity and reconciliation between brothers. This theme of enmity between brothers hits us almost right out …
In an age like ours, simple beats complex. The money goes to the company that can simplify their sales and marketing messages and catch consumers’ attention. The votes go to the candidate who can simplify the issues in a catchy one-liner. Products are designed to simplify our lives and eradicate complexity. We want things to …
The Bible’s teaching on our union with Christ is rich and inexhaustible. We could spend our whole lives growing in our intellectual understanding and personal experience of it and still not exhaust the glories of it. Over the past several articles in this series we have dug into the doctrine of union with Christ from …
We Will Always Be With the Lord (Union with Christ Pt. 5) Read More »
In the past few articles in this series we have viewed union with Christ through a particularly objective and Pauline lens. We have examined what the Bible, particularly Paul’s writings, have to say about our objective and covenantal union with Christ in His life, death, and resurrection and what this means for us today. In …
The struggle of the Christian life can often be traced back to the struggle to live out our identity in Christ. So often our legalistic striving and our sin-laden self-condemnation is driven by a failure to grasp and live in our new identity as God’s children. As we’ve explored the theme of union with Christ …
Spiritual Blessings in the Beloved (Union with Christ Pt. 3) Read More »
