“Where is Christ in this section of Scripture? What does this have to do with the ultimate purpose of Scripture: that I may know Him and Him crucified?” If you ask and answer that question, you have been spiritually disciplined in the right way. And it won’t matter if you got through one verse or a hundred.
07/09/26
For those Christians who feel the tug to read great literature, know that it is not a waste of your time. These books will only deepen your appreciation for the Scriptures and will open your eyes to a fuller, more profound vision of reality and the God who loves you.
07/06/26
We are invited to entrust everything to the one who accomplished what we could not: living and bleeding and dying and rising again, so that “whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). To put it another way, when it comes to the kingdom of God, there’s no room for DIY’ers. Best leave it to the professionals.
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04/07/21
You have this Shepherd who knows your voice, your cry, your incessant baaing.
04/06/21
Jesus offers to the anxious soul the one thing it ironically wants: certainty of the good.
04/05/21
God loves you no matter what. Loves you no matter how many times you have screwed up. Loves you to death, he does.
04/04/21
Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance pours patience and hope into the way we think and the way we experience life.
03/31/21
Good Friday encompasses the silence of God, even as it focuses on our salvation in the cross of Christ.
03/30/21
I can look at all of my failings and foolishness because I know who Christ is for me. I rest in his wisdom and life not my own.
03/25/21
This is not a plea for us to be given the strength to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. It is our helpless cry when boots – straps and all - slip off the edge of temptation’s cliff.
03/24/21
This is an excerpt from Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing written by Michael Berg (1517 Publishing, 2021). Now available for preorder.
03/23/21
The true liberty that Christ gives to us through the gospel is not political. It is spiritual freedom. It is freedom from fear of God's judgment and wrath.
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03/21/21
Undue Protestant antipathies toward Mary have muted not only her place in redemption history and its necessary connection to Christology, but also the virtue of virginity.
03/20/21
Ultimately, there is only one Lord of the Universe, and he does not share power. If Jesus is Lord, Caesar is not.
03/18/21
The petition not to be led into temptation is found in just the right place within the seven petitions.
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