When considering Christ's crucifixion we are to strive to avoid the two extremes of being too sentimental or too doctrinal.

God as Divine Warrior was hoped for during the period of exile, however he came with mercy on our behalf.

Through Naaman receiving healing from his leprosy we learn that God is sovereign in taking his people from bondage to blessing.

 Jesus replies to the thief's requiest in abundant mercy and superlative blessing that the earth had not yet known.

In Old Testament Israel we see a foreshadowing, a type of the heavenly eternal kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Even on the cross Jesus is in communion with his Father, revealing the profound and majestic inter-Trinitarian fellowship.

Zion is contrasted with the cities of this world because it is founded by God as the fortress and dwelling place of His people.

God in his mysterious providence uses the most unlikely means to accomplish his sovereign purpose.

The death of the Son of God is the Gospel itself.

The Apostle Paul utilizes Psalm 78 to encourage the church to be confident in their election in Christ and warn them of the temptation of taking the love of God for granted as Israel had done.

The God who saves, keeps, and protects his people even now.

The importance of the Word of God is always to challenge our way of thinking so that our minds might be transformed.

The Apostle Paul reminds the Corinthians and us that changing the gospel jeopardizes its saving effect.

Trusting in the Lord is at the heart of the life and experience of the Christian.

Paul's profound declaration of just how radically extensive and exclusive is Christ's mediation, as a free gift.

Isaiah prophecies in proleptic form that the hope for both Jew and Gentile resides in God's saving intervention fulfilled in Christ.

The prayer answered by the LORD in Isaiah 26 helps us to better understand the perseverance of the saints and the preservation of the saints.

A devotion on the song that will be sung when the LORD intervenes to save his people on that great and terrible day.

The telos of God's work will be good and just when everything that has been promised by the Father to his people through the merit of his Son and ministry of the Spirit will be completed and consummated.

If dependance upon God is the objective, than power often becomes an obstacle that leads to self-reliance.