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The Heart of Socialism

Socialism is trending in the minds of many Americans. Some love it, some hate it, and others are indifferent to it. Some Christians argue that it’s evil, while others argue that it’s morally good or...

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Love Your Wife for the Lord’s Sake

Husbands are called to love their wives differently than wives love their husbands, but not completely differently. For instance, husbands submit in marriage, too.Watch Now

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Take Pleasure in Your Troubles

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).Faithful women today are in great need of encouragement, just as they...

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The Secret to Peace and Contentment

The secret to Christian peace and contentment is not a gnostic secret. It is not concealed knowledge only revealed to those who achieve higher degrees of holy enlightenment. This secret is hidden in...

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A Beautiful Woman Is a Person, Not a Body

“Let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious” (1 Peter 3:4). I love this. Women, you are a...

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A Recipe for Repentance

There are fewer deceptions that are more confounding than that of false repentance. When someone pretends to confess and turn away from sin, but in the depths of his heart means only to appease anger...

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The Strange and Wonderful Ride

Passion Week begins with palms. Branches are cut from trees, hands are raised in praised, and the most important figure in history enters the greatest city in the first century for the most important...

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Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.” (John 14:1)Few words in the Bible are better known or more often quoted than these, but for all their timelessness, they were...

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Make the Most of Holy Week

In one sense, there’s nothing special about “Holy Week.” Just another sequence of eight days each spring — nothing is intrinsically holy about this Sunday to Sunday that moves around the calendar each...

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Walk Away from the World to Pray

We’re straining to make “Holy Tuesday” special, aren’t we? On Palm Sunday we hail our King, on Maundy Thursday we relish in the obedience of Jesus, on Friday we commemorate his death, and on Sunday we...

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Honor Your Wife as the Weaker Vessel

Peter calls wives the weaker vessel. Is that out-dated analysis, offensive sexisim, or just generally true? The right answer will help men honor women well.Watch Now

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Jesus Is Always Faithful

Imagine the shift in mood among Jesus’s disciples during that last Passover meal.In the midst of such a celebratory moment, Jesus tells his men that the wine they drink represents his soon-to-be-shed...

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What Would Judas Do?

Wednesday plants the suicidal seed of Holy Week: betrayal.Before there could be a Garden, there had to be a seed — the inception of insurrection. Jesus gloriously paid for our redemption with blood,...

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Intimacy Before Agony

Jesus would be arrested in mere hours and crucified the following day. Intense agony awaited him, of which he was well aware. Once he had eaten the Passover meal with his disciples, he could have...

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Live to Give — At Any Cost

The maundy in Maundy Thursday means “commandment,” from the Latin mandatum. The commandment in view is Jesus’s famous words in John 13:34–35:A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another:...

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Your Wife Is an Heir of the Universe

If your wife loves Jesus, you are living with a queen of the universe, an heir of infinite glory. You should be amazed that you get to live with her.Watch Now

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King of Kings, Sorrow of Sorrows

Many of us have turned to the laments in Scripture when our hearts have been heavy with sorrow or fear. We may have prayed David’s desperate words, asking God for help and rescue. The Psalms give voice...

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Embraced

Your life! Your precious life for mine, O Christ, my Lord, my God, my Crown, No foe nor pow'r in Palestine, Took at their will. You laid it down. For silver sold, betrayed, for me, But not...

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Calvary Conquers the Fear of Death

Sinners run backward toward an open grave, said Martin Luther, unable to face death but inevitably moving straight at it, trying to put it out of sight and out of mind with any diversion, and yet...

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When Every Hope Seems Lost

I love Easter. It is the ultimate day of rejoicing. We join in jubilation, “He is risen; he is risen indeed!”But when I think of Good Friday, my heart sinks. It is our remembrance of the ultimate day...

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