From childhood, we like others to notice and acknowledge when we’ve done a good job. In Galatians 6, the apostle Paul tells us to persevere at doing good, but not to get a big head about it. We do good because that’s what God wants, not because we’re amazing or

Drawing from Revelation chapters 4 and 5, Brad contrasts the Lord’s rebuke of the church at Ephesus (who had abandoned their first love of worship) with the heavenly throne room, where worship is the central and eternal occupation. He traces five great declarations of praise that ascend in heaven. Believers

Today Peter Bolton continued the discussion of a question that echoes all the way through the Gospels, one that was asked by crowds, disciples, enemies, and even a dying thief on a cross: who exactly is Jesus? Starting from C.S. Lewis’s famous challenge, he pushes past comfortable but shallow answers,

The people’s expectations of the promised Messiah were somewhat different from reality as Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. They were looking for a strong ruler who would free them from the tyranny of Rome, but within days Jesus would die at the hand of those very same Romans.