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Life is Tough but Jesus is Tougher: How Job Suffered
Life is tough, but Jesus is tougher. This truth becomes strikingly evident when we examine Job’s sufferings, a man whose trials were so severe that James 5:11 holds them up as an example of patient endurance. While we explored previously why Job suffered, we must now...
Life is Tough but Jesus is Tougher: Why Job Suffered
Life is undeniably tough. If there is one thing we can know about any person we meet, it is that they have suffered. Simply being human in this fallen world guarantees suffering. Ecclesiastes reminds us that life is short and full of sorrows—external sorrows, internal...
Responsible Church Membership: How Churches Exercise the Keys of the Kingdom
Many years ago, I encountered Jonathan Leeman’s insightful book on church governance, Don’t Fire Your Church Members. It reinforced my conviction that each church member plays a vital role in congregational health. The local church thrives when every member exercises...
When God Speaks: A Guide to Listening to Preaching
Preaching—and therefore listening to preaching—is integral to Christian corporate worship, yet, if we are honest, many of us struggle to engage well with preaching. Christopher Ash’s Listen Up offers valuable guidance, encouraging church members to evaluate how they...
Trusting God’s Clock: Finding Peace in Divine Timing
Our culture is fascinated with controlling time. Films explore characters leaping between past, present, and future, or moving between parallel universes where different decisions led to alternate timelines. This obsession reveals something deeper about human nature:...
Resisting Ungodly Culture: Standing Firm in Christ
The elderly Filipino grandmother wore a cross around her neck, marking her as a follower of Jesus Christ. Yet beside her humble home stood something deeply troubling: a spirit house, erected to ward off evil forces. When challenged about this contradiction, she...
Pursuing Harmony: Gospel Unity and the Glory of God
The church is meant to be a place where harmony thrives—where people from vastly different backgrounds, cultures, and convictions can come together in unity. Yet too often, our differences become sources of division rather than opportunities for grace. In Romans...
The Praying Life: Five Weaknesses and the Spirit’s Solution
Prayer is the lifeblood of the Christian faith, yet many believers struggle to maintain a consistent prayer life. Rather than avoiding this uncomfortable reality, we must honestly examine the obstacles that hinder our communion with God. Drawing from Romans 8:18–30,...
The Five Faces of Complacency: Why Spiritual Self-Satisfaction is More Dangerous Than You Think
Complacency can be defined as “self-satisfaction, especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual danger or deficiencies.” We have all witnessed athletes celebrating prematurely before being overtaken at the finish line, or students who ignored looming...