Jesus Leaves the Temple
/in Steadfast HopeMatthew 24:1–2 It is a terrible thing to think that the Lord can become so fed up with those who claim to be His servants that He departs from their presence. God sometimes seems absent to us because we have grieved Him (Zach. 1:3). If you feel as if the Lord is far from you […]
You Can Count on It
/in Steadfast Hope“Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:11). Why do some question the liberating truth that in Christ they are dead to sin? Some are victimized by an inadequate view of salvation, seeing it as a mere change in their legal standing before God. Salvation […]
Dead with Christ
/in Steadfast Hope(Romans 6:8-10). That Christ was the perfect sacrifice for sin is an essential New Testament truth. The Book of Hebrews expresses that important reality repeatedly, nowhere more clearly and forcefully than in 10:10-14: “By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest […]
