God’s response to Job furnishes a crushing indictment of human arrogance and declares boldly how God’s thoughts are higher than ours. But for the Christian this is a sweet thing – in our poverty his riches gleam all the more brightly to our eyes, in our foolishness his wisdom leaves us in awe, and in…
As we come to the end of 1 Peter, we find Peter’s call to humility and courage to a suffering church. In this sermon, we find ourselves receiving this twin call that is the secret to Christian courage.
1 Peter 5 begins with a call to the shepherds of God’s flock – the overseers of the church – to exercise their office not selfishly or in a domineering way, but clothed with the mind of Christ. And in this we find a pattern for all Christians whatever our roles in the church of…
Christ voluntarily became a man, and voluntarily went to the cross. In the face of His position and majesty and glory as eternal God, we find ourselves acknowledging the words of that hymn, “Never was love, dear King, Never was grief like Thine.”