In Jesus’ encounter with two people in great need we are reminded that God’s ways are not our ways; and that God’s ways are always better.

Change is unavoidable but how we change should follow God’s design for change.

David has two problems. There is David’s sin and there is David’s self. He faces his guilt as well as his guilty feelings. His repentance finds its voice, as does his faith, in the hope that God’s grace is sufficient for both his problems.

What it means to be a saint, in Christ Jesus, and the joy, freedom, and security that comes with knowing God as our Father and Christ as our Lord.

Many Psalms of Lament conclude with confidence in God despite suffering.  However, Psalm 44 begins with confidence, followed by a complaint, concluding with a call for God to act.

Lamentations articulates some of the worst human suffering. In response, a prayer for the Lord’s restoration is made.

When language devolves into lies and power-relations to drown out trustworthiness, we find divine rescue in the sevenfold pure words of the Lord.

We will see how wisdom holds the secret to being truly alive in every generation.

Why do we conceal our sins rather than confess them, especially when they imprison and distance us from God’s presence and his people? We’ll consider the folly of this approach to the Christian life and the liberating joys of confession flowing from our faith in the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus.

God, according to His sovereign will, works all things together for the good of the believer. Not some things or most things, but ALL things … even our thorny trials and hardships.

From deep waters we cry to an attentive Lord for deliverance and forgiveness. Our watchful hope looks to his word of promise and plentiful redemption.

When you are going through suffering, what is your relationship with God like? When your friends or family are suffering, how do you comfort them? Job tells us that God has the answer to our suffering, and how we are to look to Him during those times.

In this wilderness journal King David records his experience of the steadfast love of the Lord in the face of deep suffering. His poetic witness points us to the love of Christ and the promised joy of abiding in the greater son of the great King David.

The Parable of the Sower invites us to consider both our own hearts and our outward engagement with the world as we receive and share the good news of God’s kingdom.

Even though our praise cannot actually make God greater or higher than He is, the Lord is pleased for our praise to exalt Him in our minds and hearts.

Living in the joy of the Son setting you free.

In our passage Micah extols our incomparable God for his wondrous grace in forgiving us all of our sins and casting them all into the depths of the sea.

Psalm 8 contains the reflections of the psalmist upon the night sky. At the beginning and end, he speaks about the glory of God.

A brief reflection on the challenge of loneliness in pastoral ministry and the blessing of sharing in Christ’s interests.