Serious Joy in Preaching "Reverence and awe produce a kind of serious joy that we only experience in the presence of our “consuming fire” God. Reverence and awe aren’t at odds with joy, but prerequisites

How to “Get Over it” When You Taught Poorly "If you teach the Bible regularly, you know the experience of wishing you had done better — sometimes much better — immediately after you finished." 4 Questions a

What Preachers Can Learn from Spurgeon’s Sermons "During his prime, Spurgeon often preached ten or more times per week. His powers of oratory, imagination, and recollection proved a fierce combination, holding his listeners’ rapt attention.

The Unholy Impulse of Bitterness and Anger (Kuyper) Drawing from a devotion on Psalm 73:28 by Abraham Kuyper, this post attacks the attitudes that lead to bitterness. Don’t Wait Until You Feel Like It "Sometimes

Gospel-Fueled, Spirit-Wrought Gumption "As Christians, we are rightly concerned with living in such a way that magnifies the grace of God. We don’t want to be those who fall into works righteousness or Pharisaism, but

When My Old Testament Became Christian "Furthermore, did I rightly see that God designed the whole Old Testament to move us to magnify the Messiah, savoring Jesus as the climax of Old Testament history (Mark

Are You a Good Chef with Your Words? "Our world glamorizes and gravitates towards the big moments, the big events, the wins with numbers. There’s nothing wrong with these, but anyone who does something worthwhile

The Joy of Singing with Jesus "The Psalter (the five books of psalms) centers on the figure of the Davidic king and is incomplete without the presence of “great David’s greater son,” the Lord Jesus,

“All Sunshine Makes a Desert” "When life is going well, we can get complacent. People who get everything they want and have everything just the way they like it sometimes start to feel entitled." Let

The Most Dangerous Thing a Christian Can Do In this blog post, Tim Challies points out that the must dangerous thing a Christian can do is quite subtle, which is why it's terrifying. Afraid of