Savor Christ in Every Psalm: The Joy of Singing with Jesus

Savor Christ in Every Psalm: The Joy of Singing with Jesus

Savor Christ in Every Psalm

The Joy of Singing with Jesus

When you take the Psalms on your lips, you sing the songs of Jesus. He is the center of the Psalms, the lead singer of the Psalms, and the great conductor of the choir.

What Makes God Happiest? Enjoying His Signature Joy

What Makes God Happiest? Enjoying His Signature Joy

What Makes God Happiest?

Enjoying His Signature Joy

Lay God’s many pleasures side by side, and ask which one is his deepest delight. Across the scope of Scripture, one clear answer emerges.

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Heaven Remembered: Learning to Long for Home

Heaven Remembered

Learning to Long for Home

We cannot hope for a heaven we do not desire, and we cannot desire a heaven we have not imagined. What, then, might the real heaven be like?

The Reformed Bride: Margaret Baxter’s Unyielding Love

The Reformed Bride

Margaret Baxter’s Unyielding Love

If a faithful wife is worth more than rubies, Richard Baxter found a treasure in Margaret. Her unyielding piety and love made their marriage one to emulate and admire.

Do You See Without Seeing? Isaiah’s Riddle and Christ’s Rescue

Do You See Without Seeing?

Isaiah’s Riddle and Christ’s Rescue

Like so many of God’s messengers before him, Jesus came to a people with blind spiritual eyes. Unlike any of them, however, he can turn our blindness to sight.

Save a Soul from Death: How We Bring Wanderers Back

Save a Soul from Death

How We Bring Wanderers Back

Do you know someone who is wandering away from Jesus? God may have a word for you in the final verses of James, a letter to spiritual wanderers.

Take Hold of Heaven: Lessons from the Puritans on Prayer

Take Hold of Heaven

Lessons from the Puritans on Prayer

Among many prayer lessons from the Puritans, they excel in teaching us how to take hold of God and take hold of ourselves.

The Happiest Person Alive: Rediscovering Divine Blessedness

The Happiest Person Alive

Rediscovering Divine Blessedness

Until the blessed God becomes our God, we cannot experience true joy. For we are only as happy or miserable as the God we serve.

A Republic — If God Keeps It

A Republic — If God Keeps It

At the founding, perhaps only as few as 10 percent of Americans were church members. So, what happened in the early 1800s, and what might we learn from it today?

A Father’s 5-to-9: The Holy Ambition of Godly Dads

A Father’s 5-to-9

The Holy Ambition of Godly Dads

Children need to see a dad ambitious to spread God’s kingdom in the world. But with equal surety, children need to see a dad ambitious about being dad.

Does God Speak My Language? The Pioneering Legacy of Cam Townsend

Does God Speak My Language?

The Pioneering Legacy of Cam Townsend

The last century brought astonishing growth in Bible translation — much of it due, under God, to a college dropout with a vision for mother-tongue ministry.

Speak to Men Like Men

Speak to Men Like Men

In our overly sensitive society, have we lost the ability to talk to men like men?

The Wild Glory of an ‘Ordinary’ Life

The Wild Glory of an ‘Ordinary’ Life

A typical human life is a lot like grass — brief, quiet, and apparently ordinary. But one day we will see that no human life could ever be considered ordinary.

Some Stories Read Us: Why Jesus Spoke in Parables

Some Stories Read Us

Why Jesus Spoke in Parables

When Jesus spoke in parables, he was doing far more than harnessing the power of story. He was exposing the very hearts of his hearers.

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