In Psalm 50 God criticizes his people for believing that by offering him sacrifices they could manipulate him into favoring them. Instead, they should acknowledge that God doesn't need their offerings since he owns everything in the whole world, stop believing...
Jude addresses a church in which false teaching has begun eating away the church's testimony from within, and cultural pressures to accommodate paganism squeezes the church from without. In this situation Jude encourages the church to remain faithful to Jesus...
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...
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...
The people Jesus is talking to in John 8 really do believe that they are free, in spite of the fact that they really are under the thumb of the Roman Empire. But instead of framing their problem as a purely political problem, Jesus says that the problem at its root is...
