Scott Hubbard | The healthiest Christians forget about themselves often. So, if you find yourself too focused on yourself, consider six modest steps toward joyful self-forgetfulness.Autor: Scott Hubbard

David Mathis | God not only speaks to us — he bends his ear to hear us talk. Through the work of Christ and the help of the Spirit, we have the ear of God.Autor: David Mathis

Marshall Segal | When our souls grow dull to spiritual reality, the character of God is our confidence. He has restored us before; he will revive us again.Autor: Marshall Segal

By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.Autor: John Piper

Luther stood not on the pronouncements of popes, or the decisions of councils, or the winds of popular opinion, but on “that word above all earthly powers.”Autor: John Piper

October 27, 2024 Let Your Kingdom Come Acts 1:6-14 Jacob Smith preaching, Acts Series: The Acts of the Risen King Jesus Click here to listenAutor: Taylor Allen

Greg Morse | Are you drowning in guilt over your sin? What can we do when our hearts condemn us and simply won’t relent?Autor: Greg Morse

Marshall Segal | When our souls grow dull to spiritual reality, the character of God is our confidence. He has restored us before; he will revive us again.Autor: Marshall Segal

Scott Hubbard | The offhand jab, the subtle snub, the thoughtless comment — within the body of Christ, offense is inevitable. How do we keep on overlooking and forgiving?Autor: Scott Hubbard

David Mathis | When you think of the church, do you fixate on present blemishes or remember the heart, and promises, of Christ? He knows her spots, and he keeps working to make her breathtaking.Autor: David Mathis

By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.Autor: John Piper

John Piper | By God’s design, truth serves emotion. Thinking serves feeling. The lyrics of our best songs serve the Godward longings of our hearts.Autor: John Piper

Jon Bloom | The longings of the saints do not lessen with age — they get stronger. As the world wears thin and years grow long, wise souls want more of God.Autor: Jon Bloom

Greg Morse | We marvel at many things — athletes, artists, nature. But what made Jesus marvel?Autor: Greg Morse

Marshall Segal | The banner flying over corporate worship is not “come and give” but “come and get.” Our first business each Sunday is to seek a happy soul in God.Autor: Marshall Segal

David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.Autor: David Mathis

David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.Autor: David Mathis

Katharina married Martin Luther to survive as a runaway nun, but their marriage proved to be a model in a time when “pastor’s wife” was a new role.Autor: Kristin Tabb

The Reformation required more than theological giants. It also demanded organizational geniuses.Autor: Betsy Howard

He took the lead role in writing the Heidelberg Catechism, one of the most ringing affirmations of faith in all of Christian history.Autor: Thomas S. Kidd

Scott Hubbard | What if the worst happens? In Romans 8, the apostle Paul takes us to our darkest fears and inscribes above them all, “More than conquerors through him who loved us.”Autor: Scott Hubbard

Theodore Beza gave form to what we now call Calvinism by explaining and defending the biblical doctrines Calvin had rediscovered.Autor: Shawn Wright

Lady Jane Grey was a teenage victim of social and political conspiracy, beheaded at seventeen for her faith. But her life is far from a tragedy.Autor: Scott Hubbard

German Reformer Balthasar Hübmaier had a powerful voice, a mightier pen, and a life that echoed his Reformed and Baptistic beliefs, even under torture.Autor: Obbie Tyler Todd

Greg Morse | No matter how long you have lived in despair, nor how dark your heart has become, the dungeon that holds you has an escape.Autor: Greg Morse

Robert Estienne was the premier printer of the Protestant cause. He put Reformation doctrine and the Bible itself into the hands of ordinary people.Autor: Matt Crutchmer

David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.Autor: David Mathis

David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.Autor: David Mathis

The key to John Calvin’s life: he recovered and embodied a passion for the absolute reality and majesty of God.Autor: John Piper

David Mathis | When your eyes first open, what’s your first priority? Your burning need each day is to get your soul happy in God.Autor: David Mathis

John Knox feared the face of no man, which equipped him to bring reform to his homeland in the Highlands.Autor: Sinclair Ferguson

Conrad Grebel is known as a “radical Reformer” — a leader who took the movement one step further by insisting on separating church from state.Autor: Abigail Dodds

October 20, 2024 Come, Holy Spirit Acts 1:4-5 Jacob Smith preaching, Acts Series: The Acts of the Risen King Jesus Click here to listenAutor: Taylor Allen

Greg Morse | Our lives often take strange turns. How good to know, then, that God can turn all the unplanned oddities of your life for your good and his glory.Autor: Greg Morse

Without Zwingli, there would have been no Reformation in Zurich. Without Heinrich Bullinger, it would not have lasted.Autor: David Mathis

Hellen Stirke did not debate theology, write a treatise, or preach to hundreds. She just staked her soul on Scripture — and paid for it with her life.Autor: Tony Reinke

Jon Bloom | Christians can only be so happy in this world. Even our best seasons are accompanied by groanings for a home beyond this world.Autor: Jon Bloom

He never preached a sermon and never authored a theological treatise. He was a Reformer by accident — or, better, by common grace.Autor: Rick Segal

If the Reformation could be summarized in three men, then alongside Martin Luther and John Calvin would be the Swiss giant, Huldrych Zwingli.Autor: Michael A.G. Haykin

Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.Autor: John Piper

John Piper | Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.Autor: John Piper