Jesus addresses a crowd with some things he wants them to hear, but he also gives them some things he wants them to overhear.
Jesus wants the crowd to overhear him talking to his disciples about their money. And I’ve begun to realize that one of the …
Christmas shows why Christianity is unique. In all other religions, a prophet arrives and teaches how we can find eternal life. In Christianity, God himself comes to us and gives himself as the way to eternal life. Christmas shows that salvation is b…
Read MoreIn public these days, Christmas is seen as meaning that if we work hard, if we hold hands and breathe in unison, if we get together, we can make the world a better place. It’s like the song in the Live Aid concert in 1985, “We Are the World.” That’s …
Read MoreIf the baby in the manger was God—not just a guru, not just a supernatural being, not just the first created thing, not just a hologram, but God himself—it should make a difference in our lives.
Christmas is about the incarnation: God becoming human….
No place gives us a loftier and more penetrating view of who Jesus is than Colossians 1, which tells us that Jesus is a king.
This passage tells us Jesus is the king of all kings. One paragraph tells us about the kingship of Christ that is. The othe…
It’s one thing to have the gospel presented to you. It’s another thing to have it come to you.
According to this passage, it is very easy to miss the gospel. How do you know if the gospel has come to you?
This passage tells us four tests so you can…
The gospel changes the way we look at our money and possessions. If we understand the gospel, we should have a radically different relationship with money than what our culture says is normal.
To look at what the Bible says about this, let’s look at …
We all want peace, contentment, groundedness. And Jesus says, he will give us his peace. But he doesn’t just zap us with it. He says it comes through learning who he is.
John 16 is the end of the training course Jesus gives his disciples. It’s just b…
There’s a whole field now called happiness studies—whole departments in academia are dedicated to happiness studies. And of all the things I’ve read, none of them are as nuanced as what Jesus says.
Jesus says one of the main resources his disciples n…
When you’re about to die, you don’t make small talk. You talk about the most crucial, important things. And on the night before Jesus is about to die, he’s talking about the Holy Spirit.
Why is Jesus so constantly talking about the Holy Spirit? I th…