All of us know what it’s like to be humbled, and almost all of those times of humiliation have been forced upon us – after all, no sane person would willingly choose to be humiliated in front of other people. But Jesus’ humiliation is active: “he humbled...
The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross changes our position before God: now he sees us as completely perfect and innocent. But it also changes our condition: it begins to purify us and make us more like Jesus as we grow in his grace. And finally, the sacrifice of Jesus...
The preacher of Hebrews, arguing to his listeners that salvation can only be found in Jesus, outlines for them how Jesus is the only one who can get us in to the Father, he's the only one who can stop our suffering, and he's the only one who makes us alright...
A person’s appetite for and willingness to change can frequently be a matter of personality – some people are by nature more conservative in their personality and tend to resist change by nature, while others have personalities that are more progressive and tend...
The question of whether Christians must vote is a hotly contested one in the Christian church; and while there are no explicit commands in Scripture to vote we are commanded to seek the good of the city in which we dwell. Christians, like all citizens, are faced with...
