Duke is my dog-in-training; although, sometimes I suspect I am actually his person-in-training. Regardless, we have both been learning a lot.
The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.
But it is not always helpful to create tidy categories of good and bad and to say, “Stop being ‘a Martha’ and do a better job of being ‘a Mary.’” That is a dangerous sermon to preach. In doing so, we can fall into the very thing we see Martha doing.

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MacArthur’s courage to speak Scripture’s truth, no matter the audience, should be commended.
God doesn’t just simply give you all the things. He does so because his very own Son came down and earned all the things for you.
As both law and gospel are proclaimed, judgment and deliverance are miraculously pronounced over the hearer.
Success is emphatically not your primary identity.
Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
The nefarious thing about idolatry is that just about anything can become your idol: career, family, fame, wealth, status, spouse, you name it, any good thing can become a ‘god-thing” with ease. 
The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
What we are asked to believe as we ponder the birth of this child is that in his coming, a new creation has dawned.
Just like in the previous interview, I had to rewind to make sure I was hearing all this right. Yeah, that's actually what he said.
But the biggest problem with the Pharisee’s prayer is that he judges himself compared to other people, rather than to God. Our natural tendency is to do just this.