John Piper, in a message “Don’t Waste Your Life,” The great passion of the unwasted life is to magnify Christ. Here is the text that, perhaps more than any other, governs what life is really about: Philippians 1:20-21. Paul says, “It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, … More Don’t Waste Your Life
Coty Pinckney on Luke 5:1-11 Jesus has gone out to preach elsewhere. He is no longer in Capernaum, but in another town on the same lake. The crowd keeps coming; as more and more arrive, they push those in front up toward Jesus, forcing Him into the water. So He goes out into the lake … More All for Jesus
We come to Part 10 of Sam Storms’ Meditations on Psalm 119: Finally, if you’re still tempted to cast aside God’s Word for the sake of worldly gain, consider how he compares the value of God’s word to all earthly treasures: “The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and … More The incomparable value of seeing God
J. Hampton Keathley on “The Significance of Leprosy in the Bible”: (1) The leper was considered unclean and had to be isolated from society to a certain degree. Wherever he went he was to cry out, “unclean, unclean,” and he had to wear black with a hood covering his face and live outside the city … More The significance of leprosy in the Bible and a portrait of how God saves
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. —Philippians 1:16 Tom Stellar, a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN, said this about the verse above, in a sermon, “God Finishes What He Starts”: This makes … More God Finishes What He Starts
And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was … More Jesus knows His mission.
Sam Storms’ commentary on Psalm 119: On numerous occasions the psalmist speaks of his commitment to persevere in obedience to God’s Word in spite of the evil done to him by the wicked. What he has in mind is how the Word of God satisfies his heart and keeps and preserves him from the ways … More The Word of God satisfies the heart
From C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening(Evening May 16): The armies of the three kings were famishing for want of water: God was about to send it, and in these words the prophet announced the coming blessing. Here was a case of human helplessness: not a drop of water could all the valiant men procure from the … More Spurgeon: What trenches am I digging?
John Piper on Ephesians 6, “The Weapon Serves the Wielding Power”-: …I have been impressed more than ever before that God has given us prayer not as an intercom for increased convenience in our secluded cottages, but as a walkie-talkie connecting the general’s headquarters with the transportation line and the field hospital and the front … More Prayer: Battlefield transmitter or civilian intercom?
Sam Storms’ commentary on Psalm 119, Part 8: I referred above to the “sin-killing power” of God’s Word. What the psalmist had in mind by this was the capacity of God’s revealed truth to strengthen us in the face of temptation and to believe his promise of superior joy (cf. Ps. 16:11) when confronted with … More Sweetness of God’s Word and the sourness of sin
Knowing God through His Word ... Day by Day 