Prophet Samuel certainly had a knack for delivering iconic one-liners to kings, and “obedience is better than sacrifice” is right up there. If Nathan’s “You are the man” to David was a masterclass in rhetorical confrontation, Samuel’s retort to Saul is theologically loaded and just as memorable.
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Sorrow and suffering are woven into the very fabric of human life. No one escapes their grip, and yet, in God’s sovereign design, they are not purposeless. They are tools in the hands of the skilled Craftsman, chiselling away at our self-reliance and shaping us into the image of His Son…
On the days when my heart feels dull, dry, and drowsy, I turn to one simple prayer from David in Psalm 51:12: “Restore to me the joy of your …
In Luke 17:5–10 the apostles ask Jesus to increase their faith. How does Jesus help them? In two ways, both of which are by telling them truth. So even in the way he responds he shows us that faith comes by hearing. Knowing certain things should increase our faith.
Hypocrisy is not the way of the Christian. It is the way that the Christian abandoned in the tomb of his old life. Holiness is the way of the Christian.
Shall we entertain the notion of biblical sarcasm and satire? The response from Christians unveils the current condition of the church. In our contemporary landscape, we unravel the misguided notion that niceness trumps other biblical virtues. But this is simply not true.
The resurrection is not an additional achievement to the work of Christ, it is an elemental transaction that happened, the climactic conclusion to the redemptive work that sealed our justification. Not only did he take our sins upon the cross, but he absolved our guilt in his resurrection. We are redeemed because Jesus defeated death.
The day of trouble will come for each one of us, and let it find us prepared, cleaved to the Word of God.
We have always preferred Barabbas to Christ. We have always admired the rebel over the righteous. We have always wanted to exalt the sinner over the saint.
The coronavirus is a sign. And so are all such disasters. They point to the reality of a world that is broken by the sin of man.
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