“I know that Messiah is coming…” —the Woman of Sychar

When The Nothing tempts us to retreat into the dull thoughtlessness of distraction, routine, and comfort, we may say with Jesus, “Not my will but Yours,” and count on the moment of felt absence to fill up with God’s presence.

This week, focus on the addition instead of the subtraction.

We are not satisfied with a world without Him as King. Hunger reminds us of our hunger for Him to return and make all things right. Only then will we find true and lasting comfort.

The Bible has given us two examples of fasting for 40 days that mirror each other and inform how we, as believers, can approach a 40-day fast. The first is in Exodus 34:28…

As humanity is exiled from the garden and moves further East away from the epicenter of God’s blessing and life, their lifespans diminish. What can we learn about God from this?

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Fewer than 3% of the UK’s population are born-again Christians. It went from a cradle of the Reformation and home to many revivals to being classified as an “unreached people group” by missiologists.

Beholding the beauty of who He is now and anticipating what it will be like to be with Him in the future wells up hope for the secure future He offers and brings unexplainable joy to our hearts as we await His second Advent.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. How do we move toward that end? By embracing his ordinary means of grace, together.

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Athanasius insisted that our savior had to be fully human, in order to atone for human sin; he also had to be fully God, since only God has the power to save, and to lay down his life and take it up again.

“Rise, George, man, and defend the Church which Christ hath purchased with His own blood.”

Faith rewrites in our own hearts what morality is and leads us to embrace those biblical standards like an adorned bride. Faith gives us the power to share the gospel in the darkest of situations with those most opposed to our Lord.

Everyone worships something. And all worshipers are made into the image of the thing they worship. That’s why the Psalmist says, speaking of idols, “Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them” (Psalm 135:18).

To be unclean didn’t mean that you’ve done something wrong; it meant that something was wrong with the whole world. Becoming unclean happens when you rub shoulders with death in some way, and death is the first unwelcome invader in this good world God’s made.

Patience. It’s not the answer we want when we’re suffering. But it’s the wise answer; the answer we need.

Imagine sin like a tree. This tree can only bear one kind of fruit: death. We can’t cultivate this Sin Tree and expect peaches or apples. But if sin is like a tree, so is Jesus.

Everything in this world will hurt you if you have too much of it — even water and vegetables. Jesus Christ is the one thing that you can be insatiable for, and you can never have too much of him.

Only in Christ’s body do we get both deeply united into one organization (or “organism”) and maintain a strong individuality. As a part of Christ’s body, “you” don’t disappear into a homogeneous blur. “You” both become more truly “you” and more truly are made into the image of Jesus.