Reasons to believe in Jesus Christ
When Jesus climbed that mountain in Galilee, followed by crowds of sick and desperate people, He wasn’t about to give them the self-help manual they might have expected. Instead, He offered something far more revolutionary—a blueprint for true happiness, or as the Greek word makarios suggests, a deep, abiding blessedness. What we call the Beatitudes…
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There’s something profoundly different about a life that has been shaped by the Word of God. You’ve likely noticed it—perhaps in the steadiness of a friend’s faith during crisis, in the humble generosity of someone who genuinely mirrors Christ, or in the quiet strength of someone whose convictions run deep. These transformations don’t happen by…
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When we think of worship, many of us picture a Sunday morning sanctuary filled with music, raised hands, and voices lifted in praise. These moments are indeed precious and vital to our faith. Yet worship is so much more expansive than what happens within church walls. Worship is the heartbeat of all authentic service. When…
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” — Matthew 7:13–14 An Uncomfortable Subject We…
There is a peculiar mercy and a peculiar terror bound up together in the doctrine of human free will. Scripture presents choice not as a neutral faculty but as the very stage upon which the soul’s eternal destiny is enacted. Two passages—John 3:14-21 and Romans 1:18-31—stand as bookends to this truth: one revealing the mercy…
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The Preeminence of Christ: He Is Before All Things, and In Him All Things Hold Together Friend, before we say anything else, let me say this: whatever brought you to read these words today—curiosity, weariness, hunger, guilt, grief—you have come to the right subject. Not because I have anything to offer you, but because Jesus…
The alarm goes off. Traffic crawls. A project stalls. A relationship feels stuck. Our instantaneous culture leaves little room for waiting, and yet Scripture repeatedly calls us back to patience—that quiet virtue that seems increasingly countercultural. But patience is not passive resignation; it is the active trust that God is working, even when we cannot…
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There’s a tension that many of us feel as followers of Christ. We hear Jesus call us to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily (Luke 9:23). We’re moved by the parable of the Good Samaritan and the challenge to love our neighbors as ourselves (Luke 10:27). At the same time, we sense an…
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There’s a quiet moment I think every believer eventually reaches — a moment when they realize the Christian life was never meant to be lived by willpower alone. We try harder, make resolutions, read another book, attend another service, and still find ourselves running on empty. If you’ve been there, friend, I want to gently…
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There’s a particular weariness that settles on the hearts of faithful servants. It arrives quietly—not all at once, but in small increments. A Sunday spent preparing for ministry instead of resting. A phone call taken when you thought your day was finished. A commitment stretched just a little thinner than before. If you’ve felt this…
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