Trusting God With My Child’s Salvation – “Take heart, Mom & Dad. Jesus is sovereign over your children’s salvation. And he faithfully goes after his lost sheep (Luke 15:4), whether they’re in the time-out corner of their preschool class or walking through cancer and chemotherapy. Our Father is more concerned with redeeming our children for his glory than we are.”
Surviving the Dangers of Prosperity – “We need to realize that if not for the work of God in our lives, we would have never experienced these abundant blessings. How many good things come our way that we didn’t work for or earn or achieve, but were just given into our laps through the homes we grew up in and the culture we live in? These blessings come through the things that God has done in the past and is doing in the present for us.”
We Are A Deeply Needy People – “Rather, what we see in the exercise of spiritual gifts are the excellencies of the Spirit to magnify Christ by meeting the needs of the saints through mutual service and expressions of encouragement. When spiritual gifts are exercised, the church is built up just as Christ promised.”
The Secular Salvation Story – “We are all telling a story, living by a story, evangelizing a story. One story is ancient and rugged. The other modern and banal. One confronts. The other caresses. One truly saves. The other falsely succors. Choose your story wisely. For one starts grim, but ends in life. The other looks cheery and ends in death.”
The Best Way to Spend Your Life – “David served the purpose of God in his own generation and fell asleep. Wouldn’t it be great if people said that about you at your funeral? ‘She served the purpose of God in her generation.’ Wouldn’t that be great to have on your tombstone? ‘He served the purpose of God in his generation.'”
Brace Yourself for Suffering – A reminder that the time to prepare for suffering is before it arrives.