“Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!”
the Psalmist exhorts the people of God.
Why? Because, not only is the Lord trustworthy and his Word upright and everything he does perfectly conforms to his character, but because by these actions that perfectly express the holiness and righteousness, the justice and mercy of his character, [...]

The day after feeding the 5000, John recounts for us in John 6, Jesus once again encounters the multitudes on the opposite side of the lake. Jesus says to them,
“Truly, truly I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of bread. Do [...]

Standing on the east bank of the Jordan, Moses was preparing the Israelites with warnings and promises to enter into the land of their promised inheritance:
And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you – with great [...]

Writing to a people who would soon find themselves living as exiles among the decadence and godlessness of Babylon, the prophet wrote a series of poems as part of his prophecy of hope and comfort. Known as the “Servant Songs” (which we will visit in a few weeks as we approach Easter), they were [...]

Did you ever wonder: is this really God’s “Plan A”? That is, Was his first, best choice to use people such as “me” as instruments in his great work of redemption? That just doesn’t seem to make any sense at all. Surely he would have preferred to use smart, good-looking, strong people [...]

“Grant us, even us, O Lord, to konw you, and love you and rejoice in you. … Let the knowledge of you increase in us here, that it may be full hereafter. Let the love of you grow every day more and more here, that it may be perfect hereafter; that our joy may [...]

The true service of worship, Isaiah tells his incredulous readers, is …
to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the burdened and pressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see [...]

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins,
and sinners, plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains!
Stop there; savor that: “lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains!” Really? That’s right: “and sinners, plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.”
So wrote William Cowper [...]

Paul’s an interesting character. He often doesn’t quite say things as we might expect; while he uses the same words as the rest of us, he seems to string them together according to completely different rules of grammar and syntax, as though he shares our language, but grew up in a different Culture.
Paul opens [...]

One of the tools our Lord uses to guide and shape his people according to the truth of the gospel of his imprudent grace is called a “catechism.” With this tool we are taken by the hand and led to ask questions: some are questions that at different points in our life we ache [...]