We garner our initial knowledge of the Lord in the home. There, we learn how to honor our parents, and in so learning, we learn that we are not the center of all things.
More
Being obedient does not always make sense to us. This was especially the case when we were children. My father drove me crazy with his demands and discipline. He makes more sense to me now, some 50 years later.
More
Being obedient does not always make sense to us. This was especially the case when we were children. My father drove me crazy with his demands and discipline. He makes more sense to me now, some 50 years later.
More
Frankly, things look practically dark. It is difficult to look at the world and think otherwise. Look at all the young people out there who did not learn enough sense from their parents...
More
True holiness and enlightenment is that which receives its righteousness and revelation from the living Christ, rather than trying to squeeze piety and secrets from the dead husk of works and religion.
More
We are the workmanship of God, and have been created in Christ for good works. Though God’s grace saves us through faith in Christ Jesus, we are nonetheless, expected to bear fruit...
More
“I will give up heating this year for God! He will respect me for that sacrifice and grant me entrance at heaven’s gates.” As some old friends of mine used to say mockingly, “Let me know how that works out for you.”
More
In today's video, we discuss what kind of peace Simeon saw in the temple as he held the baby Jesus in his arms.
More
Mothers and fathers are given a great honor; let them rise to the responsibility of that honor. Let them teach their children the commandments and the whole Word of God...
More
Those who depend upon their works instead of their hope and faith in the great work of Christ Jesus have already bowed to the beast. In doing so, they have knelt before the dragon...
More
In today's video, we discuss God's peace.
More
In today's video, we discuss God's mercy for all people—even the ones we do not think deserve it.
More
It is not easy to be a child. Nor is it easy to be followers of Christ, his church. One may, at first, imagine the difficulty lies in keeping the commandments—for who can do so with the slightest measure of perfection?
More-800.jpg)
How ironic that we consider the Fourth Commandment while reading today’s gospel lesson. A woman in the crowd seeks to honor the mother of Jesus, and Jesus improves upon her blessing...
More
In today's video, we discuss how we may have created obstacles for people not like us to hear the gospel.
More
We cannot imagine how something could be so; the Lord surely did not mean it that way. Perhaps it was just a man writing down his own thoughts that came to be considered The Holy Bible.
More
In today's video, we discuss how God's ways and our ways are so different that his ways are incomprehensible to us, so he sends his Word to us to accomplish his ways in our lives.
More
Even Jesus obeyed the commandment to honor his earthly parents, as well as his heavenly Father. Honoring one’s parents is an extension of the greatest commandment.
More
In today's video, we discuss how God has made Israel a lighthouse, a warning to the nations, and how his covenant with Israel for the nations is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
More
Feeling angry, arrogant, rebellious? Would you vent your frustrations on the Lord using insolent words? Of course not; you should not do so with your parents either.
More
In today's video, Wyclif and I discuss how Advent (and life) is a time for waiting patiently for our God.
More
The harvest begins at home. Knowing how the kingdom laborers will be limited, God orders matters efficiently from the outset. There are two workers assigned to each of us so that we may each be properly gathered into his harvest.
More
Peter failed to recognize what was happening in this singular event that showed him the glory of Christ Jesus.
More
In today's video, we discuss how the mercy of God is extended to nations other than Israel—even to her enemies.
More
Peter failed to recognize what was happening in this singular event that showed him the glory of Christ Jesus.
More
In today's video, we discuss how the light of Christ Jesus cannot be contained and will at last, enlighten our lives, filling every dark corner of our lives, banishing the darkness of sin forever.
More
We have seen what Peter would do if left to his own reason. Religion and abandonment are the outcomes.
More
You may think that Paul’s warning to the centurion was not inspired. Yet, see how it finds its way into Luke’s account, into the Scripture? There is great danger in not paying attention to biblical counsel.
More
In today's video, we discuss how God will make peace among the nations—and among us.
More
Does it seem to you that some time has passed since you have heard from the Lord? Or, on the other hand, does it seem like it was only moments ago that God spoke?
More
In today's video, we discuss how God is faithful even when we are faithless.
More
In today's video, we discuss that God has chosen to reveal himself through love and faithfulness.
More
Who was hounded by the devil more than Jesus? Now ask yourself: who has ever prayed more? Knowing the need, Jesus modeled the life of prayer to his disciples.
More
In today's video, we discuss God's' constant kingdom and the shifting political powers of our nation and the world.
More
Look at all the trouble that Paul and Luke went to just to preach the gospel. This is the great mission of the church, and they undertook it with passion. We should receive the proclaimed gospel with a matched passion...
More
Troubles come and troubles go, but we must abide in the ship. We hear the Word on the Lord’s Day, but we should remember it and keep it throughout the week.
More
In today's video, we discuss our own craving for glory, and how this can be overcome by recognizing God's marvelous works and giving him the glory.
More
In today's video, we discuss those things that seek to overtake God's chief place in our lives, and how eventually, God will unite all peoples with an undivided heart that fears, loves, and trusts in him above all things.
More
Hosea’s agricultural imagery depicts the results of idolatry. It is the same as sowing your seed in the wind. The outcome is more wind, or if the seed blows to other properties, they will eat the grain.
More
“There’s the rub!” as Shakespeare had Hamlet say. What is the origin of this famous saying? Believe it or not; it comes from bowling.
More
In today's video, we discuss God's mercy for all the peoples of the earth.
More
Laws are not established as mere prohibition, but as protection and benefit for the people. This is the case with divine law as well as human.
More
In today's video, we discuss our impatience with God and how he is with us in the midst of our troubles.
More
What do you have to do in order to become holy? Nothing but follow him who makes one holy. We are called to follow him so we may be present for his great blessings.
More
What greater words are these, spoken by God himself? The promise, “You are forgiven.” is received by God’s grace through faith alone.
More
In today's video, we discuss frustrated plans and that sometimes it is God who is frustrating them.
More
God’s word, the gospel, is the very power of salvation. This is how God bequests the eternal inheritance of the saints. He constructs a Christian through the word of his grace—in other words, through the righteousness of Christ.
More
In today's video, we discuss oppression in the world and how it often enough comes from people and places we'd least expect.
More
In today's reading, God puts Abraham to the test. In the midst of a most difficult trial, God provides for Abraham — and for us all. Watch the video where we discuss God's tests and promises in our lives.
More
Everywhere Jesus traveled, he healed people, and fed them, but also taught them in the synagogues, as well as on the mountains and plains. Never once did he complain that all those people ever wanted out of him was his word.
More
What is surprising about God's call on Abram/Abraham? Or for that matter, what's surprising about his calling you to your vocation? Watch the video as we seek to answer these questions and more.
More
Great blessing awaits those who have developed the practice of going to worship on the Lord’s Day. But if they attend church only to go through the motions, not truly involved in the what is happening...
More