Christian Living
Explore foundational principles and practical guidance for daily Christian life. Discover a wide range of topics aimed at fostering spiritual growth, maturity, and consistent obedience in your walk with God.
Smarter Than God
When some people tried to trap Jesus, it only resulted in revealing His magnificent wisdom.
Proverbs on Government
Though the book of Proverbs was written 3000 years ago, its wisdom regarding government and…
Proverbs on Marriage and Purity
Proverbs has much to say on the topic of sexual purity, sexual sin, and the…
Proverbs on Fear
Nobody escape fear. Nevertheless, fear ought not to rule the life of a believer. Proverbs…
Proverbs on Depression
Proverbs defines depression as ‘hope deferred’. Proverbs makes it clear why this is the case,…
Proverbs on Conflict
Conflict may not be avoidable, but believers need to know how to avoid it and…
Proverbs on Anger
“The fire that burns” – anger is a demand for change. The demand can either…
Proverbs on Receiving Correction
Though no one enjoys it, receiving correction is fundamental to growth and development in the…
Proverbs on Communication—Part 2
The book of Proverbs provides us with a wealth of truth regarding communication that pleases…
Proverbs on Communication—Part 1
How are we to use our tongues? Proverbs has much to say on both speaking…
Proverbs on Laziness and Diligence
A biblical perspective on laziness and diligence.
Proverbs on God’s Will
A biblical perspective on God’s sovereign and preceptive will. Our part in doing God’s will…
Knowing God Through Fellowship
John deliberately tells us that no one has seen God. The essence of God cannot…
Five Secrets of Knowing God
1) We know God as a person. 2) We know God because he reveals himself.…
The Faith of Forgiveness
Unforgiving Christians can become obstacles to Gospel for others. Forgiveness reflects on who our God…
Essential Christianity—Orthopathy—Part 10
Right thinking about God / Correct worship of God.
Essential Christianity—Orthopathy—Part 9
When our affective responses are responses to biblical or well-chosen images, analogies, metaphors, symbols, and…
Essential Christianity—Orthopathy—Part 8
1) The affections are primary because the heart of our religion is based on affection:…
Essential Christianity—Orthopraxy—Part 7
Defining the Church – Biblically Qualified and Called leadership – Biblically Ordered Worship – Healthy…
Essential Christianity—Orthopraxy—Part 6
To live as fully Christian is to desire to understand the meaning of this creation…
Essential Christianity—Orthopraxy—Part 5
1) The importance of worship 2) The importance of corporate worship 3) Teach on the…
Essential Christianity—Orthodoxy—Part 4
A conservative Christian church should engage in the systematic discipleship of believers. In good Christian…
Essential Christianity—Orthodoxy—Part 3
The second mark of a conservative Christian church: it will understand, defend, and teach biblical,…
Essential Christianity—Orthodoxy—Part 2
Beyond clarifying the meaning of the gospel, churches must be committed to the gospel. That…
Essential Christianity—Part 1
Christians ought to be conservatives. Christians ought to be concerned with conserving all that it…
When Means Become Ends—Nehushtan
Israel used something that was meant to be an instrument of faith, into an object…
How to Give Thanks
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Loving God in All of Life—Contemplation
Loving God in all of life means cultivating the examined life. Contemplating the meaning of…
Loving God in All of Life—Consecration
All of life’s activities can be consecrated to God, by considering our motive, method, and…
Living In His Presence
God has always desired that His people live in His presence. This study takes us…
The Lord’s Day
Is Sunday or Saturday the Sabbath? Are Christians to be Sabbath-keepers? What is meant by…
Walking With God
Enoch lived in a day as wicked as ours. Somehow, he managed to walk so…
Usefulness or Prominence
What is true leadership, and true greatness? The Lord had to teach some very ambitious…
Crossless Christianity
A kind of Christianity is abroad today that requires no commitment and dispenses with the…
Men as Trees
Spiritual blindness and clarity is affected by our responses.
Are We Getting It Yet?
Oftentimes, God has to repeat Himself when dealing with us. We need to consider why…
He Does All Things Well
The ways and works of God are often strange or inscrutable to us. However, a…
Heart Religion
False religion is distinguished from the true by whether it works from the inside out…
The Lesson of the Loaves
The disciples needed to learn a lesson: what God’s orders, he pays for.
The Martyrdom of John
Why does God allow some of His choice saints to suffer or even be killed…
Real Ministry
With so much error and false practice, what is true ministry?
The Death of Death
Can our greatest foe – death – truly be conquered? Christ has one requirement.
The Servant’s Sovereignty Over Satan
What kind of power does Satan have? Is Christ struggling to overcome forces of darkness,…
Sowing and Sleeping
How does God’s kingdom grow? What methods should we use? A simple parable helps us…
Why Some Receive Christ
Why do some people receive Christ, while others reject? Jesus explained that the answer is…
Why Most Reject Christ
We are tempted to think that the difference between someone trusting Christ and rejecting Him…
Four Responses To Jesus
What shall we do with Jesus Christ? People have typically responded in four ways. Only…
The Sabbath for Man
The observance of the Sabbath had become a symbol of a man working to please…
Faith: Feast or Fast?
Is faith in Christ a gloomy despairing fast, or is best represented by a wedding…
The Scandal and Sweetness of Free Grace
Free grace is sweet to certain ears, and a scandal to others. Find out which…
Misery and Mercy
What does the mercy of God look like? Is it willing to identify with us…
How to Be Sober Without Being Sombre
Is a serious faith the same as a gloomy faith? All the difference in the…
The Practices of the Christian Life—Church, Stewardship
Part of the practices of the Christian life within the church is the practice of…
The Practices of the Christian Life—Fasting
Is fasting to be the regular part of every Christian’s life?
The Practices of the Christian Life—Meditation
The very first and primary practice of the Christian life must be meditation on God’s…
The Posture of the Christian Life—Seeking
The posture of faith is also to be one of diligently seeking God.
The Posture of the Christian Life—Submission
At the heart of the faith that knows and loves God is the attitude of…
The Posture of the Christian Life—Repentance
Repentance is not something we do once on our day of conversion, and never again.…
The Posture of the Christian Life—Humility
Humility lies at the very root of a life of faith.
The Position of the Christian Life—Secure as You Endure
The Christian life is one of assurance that is granted as we endure in the…
The Position of the Christian Life—Christ in You
The position of the Christian life is one of possessing the Holy Spirit. We examine…
The Position of the Christian Life—You in Christ
The truth that we are ‘in Christ’ is one of the most important New Testament…
The Position of the Christian Life—Why It Matters
Why does it matter if we know our position in Christ or not? We must…
The Process of the Christian Life—Living in Love
The Christian life is to manifest in love: love for God, for brethren, for neighbours,…
The Process of the Christian Life—Abiding in His Presence
The process of the Christian life includes, communing with God so as to come to…
The Process of the Christian Life—Knowing God by Living in His Presence
God’s presence is fundamental to the process of knowing and loving God.
The Process of the Christian Life—Loving God by Knowing Him
Loving God only happens as we come to know Him as a person. Knowing God…
The Priorities of the Christian Life—Part 3
The grand priority of the Christian finds its explanation in one thing: the beauty of…
The Priorities of the Christian Life—Part 2
Jesus was unambiguous as to the grand priority of the Christian life: we are to…
The Priorities of the Christian Life—Part 1
If you have ever felt that Christianity was a mix of competing ideas, you will…
If God Became a Man—Part 2
What would we expect if God became a man? We continue to consider this idea.
If God Became a Man—Part 1
What would we expect if God became a man?
The Trinitarian Gospel
The Gospel is irreducibly a Trinitarian Gospel. Ephesians 1:3-14 shows us why.
Mark, A Restored Servant
Who was Mark? Why is his story a picture of grace?
Spiritual Disciplines in the Life of a Minister—Part 2
What disciplines need to be in place for spiritual leadership in the church?
Spiritual Disciplines in the Life of a Minister—Part 1
Why is discipline crucial in the life of a pastor or spiritual leader?
Real Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual warfare advocates speak of ‘power encounters’. Daniel had his own, and it stands in…
Repenting Before a Gracious God
What does it mean to genuinely repent before God? Daniel’s prayer in chapter 9 is…
The Handwriting’s On the Wall
Belshazzar thought he could mock the only true and living God and get away with…
The Vindication of Jesus
Jesus made some extraordinary claims about Himself, and some extraordinary prophecies. He staked the authenticity…
A Life for God’s Glory
Why did God choose to favour Daniel with the interpretation of the dream? Daniel shows…
The Uncompromised Life
Daniel and his friends exemplify what it means to stand apart, to live a life…
Will the Real Legalist Please Stand Up?
We hear all kinds of people and churches accused of being ‘legalistic’. What exactly is…
Baptism: The Happiest Funeral
Baptism represents the profound truths of Romans 6. As such, it ought to be the…
The Boundary of Christian Love
How does Christian love deal with denials of the Gospel? Second John teaches us that…
The Nature of Christian Love
The book of 2 John helps us to understand the relationship between love and truth.
Three Certain Experiences
In a world of uncertainty, the book of First john provides us with three rock-solid…
The Testimony of God
God has made a case for Jesus Christ being His Son and the focal point…
More Than Conquerors
What does it mean that Christians overcome the world? In a world hostile to the…
Loving God Truly
Loving God does not always look the way the world envisions love. It includes profession…
The Fearlessness of Love
Those who know and love God have the ultimate confidence: the assurance of what will…
The Signs of Love
Proof that we genuinely love God is not contained in a feeling we may have.…
The Beloved Love
One of the signs that we are indeed chosen and loved by God is our…
The Shame of the Cross
For a people who have come to wear crosses arounds our necks as ornaments, it…
The God Who Is Scarred
How is it possible that the glorified body of Jesus Christ still contains the marks…
A Family Like Cain’s, A Family Like Christ’s
The two families in the world are either characterised by the murderous selfishness of Cain,…
Two Families, Two Likenesses
Christianity is more than an inner spiritual feeling. It means we belong to a different…
Loving God Appropriately
Can we love God any way that pleases us? Or is there a kind of…
Loving God Supremely
If we are to love God ultimately, what place is there for loving others?
Loving God Ultimately
What does it mean to love God as your only god?