Christmas Day is just around the corner. During this Advent season, I have been reminded of how much waiting God's people have been doing throughout history. Waiting on the Lord is a major theme in the bible and the Christian life. It is the confident, active, prayerful, patient, and hopeful anticipation that God will fulfill his promises and bring a positive outcome out of a situation […] When waiting on the Lord, are you expecting him to work in the mundane things…?

There are many false Jesuses that we have created throughout church history.

Come take a look with me at who the real Jesus is, as revealed in the Word. See His unmatched Glory. See that he is the only one who can save. See that he is the strongest, most beautiful, and better than any other.

Do you realize how much and how deeply God thinks about his children? Do you know that he watches you carefully every day with the purpose of doing good to you, to protect you and to lead you in the way of life? Sometimes I unconsciously think that God is too busy running the universe to care about why I am crying on my couch or that he has ‘holier’ people to pay attention to. The inspired David shows us in Psalm 139 that this could not be further from the truth. But what even David could not fathom, ‘things into which angels long to look’ (1 Peter 1:10), is a God who put on human flesh, dwelt among us and gave his life for us so that we might have eternal life in him.

Have you noticed how Jesus interacts with certain individuals in the Gospels? He seems not to answer the question(s) asked or he seems to address a completely different topic. It’s almost like something was lost in translation, but it is not so. Jesus is intentional in how he interacts with individuals. Not only does he know how, but he also knows what to answer each one of us. He knows how to get us to understand God better, ourselves better, and our utter need for him….

Are you constantly weary, fearful of what tomorrow holds (or doesn’t hold) for you? Are you unmotivated? Are you questioning whether God even sees or hears you? Are you wondering if there will be an end to this season? Do you feel ‘shakable’, spiritually destabilized, and starved?

We tend to think that good things feel good and bad things feel bad. If something feels painful, it must be bad; if it feels good, it must be good. Well, the reality is, God's kindness, protection, and love often feel painful as a necessity and a consequence of our fallenness….

A question occurred to me: why are we saved by faith and why do we walk by faith? Why is faith the prerequisite to becoming God’s children? Why couldn’t God be pleased with people who simply obey him out of duty and not out of trust?

It strikes me that delighting in the Lord (and therefore in His Word) is the primary characteristic of the blessed person described in Psalm 1…According to the psalmist, the opposite of walking in unrighteousness is delighting in the Lord…

How often do you think about the second coming of Jesus? Daily? Sometimes? Barely? The return of Jesus is one of the most important and recurring teachings of the New Testament. The inspired authors repeatedly encourage believers to long for it, to wait expectantly for it, to get ready for it, to live in the light of it, and to hope in it.. According to the apostle Peter, the key to enduring suffering is to set our hope completely on the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ …