In 1 Corinthians 3 and Ephesians 2, the Apostle Paul likens the church of Jesus Christ to a sacred temple. The building blocks of this new temple, he says, are…
Pastor Tim’s birth certificate has always been as mysterious as President Obama’s. There are, to be sure, a lot fewer people in the world who are interested in his birth…
Jesus’s perfect obedience to his Father and sacrificial death on the cross for the world satisfied God’s just demand for sin to be punished. Consequently, those who trust in Christ…
One of the most tragic changes Christianity has experienced in the last 50 years is the minimizing of the centrality of the local church in the life of believers. The…
Ever since Genesis 3, it has been hard for people to get along. We’re all so different, and, because of our fallenness, those differences can annoy us, threaten us, and…
What on earth is the church, and why are we here? All authoritative answers to these questions must begin with Jesus, who said, “I will build my church” (Matt 16:18). Since the…
If you knew that you were going to die tomorrow at 3 p.m., what would you do tonight at 9 p.m.? Who would you be with? How would you spend…
Christians sing it every Christmas season, even though it’s not primarily a carol about the birth of Jesus. It’s much broader than that. The words are familiar to believers in…
The account of Philip and the Ethiopian is one of the great conversion stories in the book of Acts. Luke, volume 2 records how Christianity took hold in the 1st…
The post-resurrection appearances of Jesus can come across as elusive or even mysterious at times. Over the span of 40 days, the risen Christ shows up for a brief period,…
The empty tomb of Jesus sends people running on that first Easter. Everyone is dashing through the cemetery, but why? They’re running to find answers to their questions and help…
Jesus achieved something in his death that God the Father recognized, namely, humanity’s sin crisis was rectified once and for all. Indeed, the NT presents Jesus as God’s chosen substitute…
These two devotionals were part of the 2021 Maundy Thursday Service at Christ Community Church. The former “Jesus, the Servant” (John 13:1-17) focuses on the radical humility of “the God…
In preparing his people for their exodus from Egypt, God instructed the Israelites to sacrifice an unblemished lamb and then apply some of its blood to the tops and sides…
The Servant Song in Isaiah 53 was written 700 years before Jesus came, yet it reads like someone composed it while standing at the foot of the cross on Good…
Some of us have had the occasion of ministering to friends and relatives when they took their last breath. We stand by their beds as death approaches, and we usher…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a drama must be worth a thousand books. And a drama from God must be worth an entire library of divine…
In watching Jesus carry the wood of the cross to the place of execution, Christians naturally think of the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22. God said to…
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