September 2021

Yesterday we talked about the righteousness of God unveiled in us as a free gift. I’ve read a lot of things over the years and have heard a lot of conversations among Christians and a lot of sermons about what righteousness is, and normally they talk about things that you do or don’t do that […]

Romans 1:16-17 NASB95 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. [17] For in it the righteousness of God is unveiled from faith to faith; as it is written, “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me.” (Galatians 2:20) We live in union with

2 Peter 1:4 ESV by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.   2 Peter 1:4 TPT As a result of this, he has

Romans 1:1 ESV Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, Galatians 1:15 NASB95 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace   Paul  refers to himself in the opening of his letters as

The book of Esther is a magical book. Obviously, the entire Bible is supernatural, and the story of God’s goodness laced through every page is mind-blowing, but there’s something extraordinarily magical about the book of Esther. If you approach the book of Esther with your eyes wide open, you’ll discover that there’s something Narnia-like about

I have discovered over the years, that only as I see things from Christ, through the grid of His eyes, am I able to know the truth about anything. It is important to know the truth about a thing because it’s the truth that sets us free. If we don’t see the truth, instead of

A dozen times, the gospel is referred to in one form or another as the gospel of Jesus. Saying that the gospel is the gospel of Jesus doesn’t mean that the gospel belongs to Jesus, or just that the gospel is about Jesus, though that is so very true. More pointedly, the gospel is Jesus.

Do you long to be closer to God? Do you desire greater nearness in intimacy with him? We often talk about our union with Christ but let us look at it from the other direction; His union with us. Jesus, in His very person both now and forever, is in union with us. In His

What is the gospel? It is our inclusion into the life that Jesus lives in the favor that He lives under. That is a huge statement concerning the favor of God on our lives. Maybe when you hear that, your first thought is that you haven’t earned that place yet or deserve the place of