Christian Living

Why should we love God? Does the Bible give any reasons why we should love…

Difficult times press us to our resources. Paul describes his secret of survival, even under…

Emigration is a perennial topic in South Africa. Is there biblical guidance for people considering…

Once we understand what John means by ‘the world’, there are several ways we are…

Genuine Christians obey the command to love one another. False believers hate other Christians.

At Christmastime, we consider the Incarnation. Christians have an obligation to incarnate something, too.

How can a believer know that he actually knows God?

Believers confess continually because Christ continually represents them as the Advocate.

What is real life? The book of 1 John could be called “A Spotter’s Guide…

God calls for spiritual vigilance and soberness from His people. What does this means, and…

God’s essence is also captured in the truth that God is a tri-unity.

What is the grand conclusion of Solomon’s quest for life?

Solomon contrasts the pain of old age with youth, and draws conclusions for when we…

How do we make decisions in a world sovereignly controlled by God? Ecclesiastes has much…

Life has authority hard-wired into it. We cannot navigate through life without understanding how God…

Ecclesiastes, like Proverbs, teaches us the value of wisdom – what it can and cannot…

One of Solomon’s themes is how death renders human activity futile. Only when God-granted immortality…

God exists in Himself. His very name, I AM THAT I AM, teaches that God’s…

God is Spirit. What does this profound predication mean?

The beginning of studying God’s attributes is to understand that no one is like God.

Understanding how scandalous crucifixion was to the first-century mind helps us to appreciate the grandeur…

Wealth is good – but wealth is dangerous. Wealth is a blessing, but wealth may…

Solomon got to test all of life for pleasure – and came up empty.

The kind of heart that brings forth fruit is characterised by spiritual receptivity.

Some hearts reject the Word because too many other things are growing in competition to…

Some people appear to believe, but theirs is a superficial grasp if Christianity, revealed as…

Jesus gave the parable of the sower to explain a phenomenon: why the same message,…

A life of loving God manifest in loving what He loves and hating what He…

Only by living as dead to a selfish life can we rise to live a…

The power of self-worship can only be broken with the method of self-denial.

Loving God requires that we see and behold the glory of God through illumination.

How do hearts that love themselves come to love God?

Why should we love God?

Christians can experience a steady entropy in their devotion. Malachi describes this.

Philemon not only teaches us what forgiveness is, it teaches us the art of tactfully…

What do we do when we forgive someone?

What does it mean to forgive? What is our ground and basis to forgive?

Philemon is about forgiveness. Why must we forgive? Does it truly play that big a…

God has designed us with a faculty of moral knowledge. When shaped and energised by…

Paul describes ministry in a church with a beautiful illustration of the Body.

What is the task of ministry? What are the ministries of a church to aim…

How does a church function? What exactly is ministry?

What is the Day of Atonement? How has Christ fulfilled this?

Colossians concludes with the familiar benediction “Grace be with you.” How does grace come both…

Colossians ends with a description of faithful Christians. What is faithfulness, and how does Christ’s…

Christ’s sufficiency shows up at work: how managers treat workers and how workers do their…

When Christ is sufficient, this must spill over into family life.

The paradoxes in God’s love can be difficult to solve. We seek to draw them…

God’s love is rooted in His nature: gracious, sovereign, merciful, jealous.

God’s love is deeply rooted in His nature. Understanding what and why He loves, enables…

The love of God is, in fact, a deep and complex thing. Understanding it correctly…

Sincerity and authenticity is at the heart of our faith. John describes this as ‘walking…

What does new Testament fasting look like? Jesus explains with the illustration of a wedding.

How should people who are united to Christ’s resurrection live?

Should Christians who are complete in Christ be drawn back into a petty bondage?

Mysticism seems to promise a deeper spirituality. But once again, the wrong kinds are simply…

If we are complete in Christ, we need to avoid those subtle and overt forms…

Our faith is always under threat from add-ons to the faith. Our completion in Christ…

How should we approach ministry? With what attitudes, expectations, and goals?

What does ministry entail? What is true ministry to one another? Paul exemplifies this in…

A topic hardly heard today is that of God’s anger. Without an understanding of the…

Thinking about why we needed salvation, and what God did to accomplish it, should lead…

What does it mean to live up to the name “Christian”?

Knowledge, understanding and wisdom stand as a kind of trinity of healthy inward thoughts. Paul…

The book of Colossians portrays a supreme Christ who is more than sufficient for our…

The choice to renew our spiritual lives is very much in our hands.

We can choose deliberate repentance if we wish to see a re-awakening in our lives.

Tozer called it ‘Rut, rot, or revival’. We can choose to allow spiritual entropy to…

Christians take so many knocks, and fall so often that they are prone to deep…

How does Peter’s restoration in John 21 describe how we can return to a closer…

How does Jesus restore His servants to a first love for Him?

Most of our lives are spent at our jobs. How do we worship God at…

Jesus taught heart-religion – that what comes out on the outside, is what is already…

Gratitude is at the soul of Christian living. An incident with several lepers illustrates this.

How should we understand the matter of dating and courtship?

Christ’s raising of Lazarus teaches us the relationship of Christ to life and death.

What is genuine Pharisaism? We see the heart of it in Jesus\’ healing of a…

What exactly does the Bible mean when it says that God loves us?

How does Christ remove our spiritual blindness? We see in this account, it is often…

The personal love of God for each of us is seen in Christ’s healing of…

What does spiritual dullness look like? The disciples give us a ready example.

Is our obedience to be mere drudgery? Does Scripture give us a higher motive for…

Individual worship is taken up with the truth of becoming like Christ.

Solitude and silence are absolutely crucial to your growth in the knowledge of God. God…

You might be able to summarise I Peter with three words, grace, hope and glory.…

Spiritual dryness threatens every one of us, and overtakes us if we don’t keep re-hydrating.…

A lot more goes on that what you see on the stage or the screen.…

We come to the third critical error, and in some ways it is perhaps the…

Influence is not the same thing as size. The church has more or less bought…

The first critical error which the church at large seems to be making again and…

If you are truly saved, you are under authority, not under autonomy. If you believe…

Satan is defeated, but he is still dangerous. He cannot do more than God allows…

If you are in Christ, then you are to be growing into His image. How…

The believer was made for devotion, not for lukewarmness. The unhappiest person in the world…

When the Word is preached in power, you will see three things. People will be…

Sometime you’ll hear politicians and other public figures using the word accountability. It seems to…

If you have no one to examine you after exposure to the Word of God,…

Few Christians quickly learn and maintain balance in their lives. We are creatures given to…

The Christian life is the only thing on earth that is a cooperative venture between…

One of the hardest things for Christians to understand is the connection between God’s grace…