If someone were to ask for a one-word description of what the gospel brings to us when we repent and believe, many would rightly respond with the word salvation. As Paul affirms, we are saved from the wrath of God through faith in Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 1:9–10). Yet there is another outcome of the gospel we often overlook — peace.Paul calls the gospel the “gospel of peace” (Ephesians 6:15),...  Read More

Here's a question for all of us to consider this week. How do we know that we are truly following Jesus and His ways? The writer of 1 John tells us that one of the tests of authentic Christianity is that all those who claim to follow God can be found walking in the light (1 John 1:6–7). John wrote this to believers because of false teachers claiming to believe in God even though they were walking ...  Read More

From Wickedness to Purity – The Transformation of the HeartA good definition of purity spoken of in scripture is:To be single-minded for the glory of God. It is to have God and his kingdom as your ultimate priority, with no competitors. It is to serve one master, not two.Biblical purity is a matter of the heart, and the heart matters to God because we matter to God. It's because He loves us deeply...  Read More

As you are reading this after Easter, I hope you were impacted by the significance of Resurrection Sunday. For if the resurrection of Jesus is true, then everything we know about death has changed.Its truth means you don’t have to live like “you only live once,” trying to check off every item on a bucket list before your time runs out. If you belong to Christ, death is not the end of your story—it...  Read More

A Call to Holy Living“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” (2 Timothy 2:22) Timothy, whom the apostle Paul called his “true son in the faith”, received these clear instructions. The words are strong and the message is clear. Paul wasn’t offering suggestions—he was commanding action. In just one verse, we’re...  Read More

We are now on the other side of Holy Week, where Christian believers all over the world prepared to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We focused our worship on the empty tomb as the culmination of God’s plan to defeat sin and death. The cross on which Jesus died also receives much attention, and not without good reason. Paul describes the cross as the “righteousness of one” that...  Read More