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Articles from Sola 5 Pastors
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...
When God’s Ways Make No Sense: Learning to Trust When We Don’t Understand
Sometimes, God asks us to do things that seem impossible, unreasonable, or even frightening. The account of Ananias in Acts 9:10–19 offers encouragement for those moments when we struggle to understand God’s ways and find it difficult to trust his plans. The Seemingly...
Dealing with Idols of the Heart: How the Gospel Frees Us from False Worship
The human heart, as John Calvin observed, is an idol factory. We constantly manufacture things to place in God’s rightful position, exchanging worship of the Creator for worship of created things. This tendency towards idolatry isn’t merely an ancient problem confined...
Ministry is No Spectator Sport: Why Every Believer is Called to Serve
When the apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, he spent fifteen chapters unpacking profound theological truths about the gospel. But when we reach chapter 16, something shifts. Gone are the weighty doctrinal explanations; instead, we encounter a lengthy list of...
Created in Christ Jesus: The Essence of Authentic Christianity
Paul’s letter to the Ephesians contains what may be the most crucial phrase for distinguishing genuine faith from mere profession: “created in Christ Jesus” (2:10). this expression represents far more than theological terminology—it embodies the very essence of what...