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Toward Need, Not Comfort: The Blood-Bought Path of the Good Samaritan
7 augustus 2024 · 44 min
You don’t have to be Christian to love the story of the Good Samaritan. But applauding Luke’s parable apart from his Gospel contradicts his purpose.
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Truth Triumphs Through Pleasure
31 juli 2024 · 44 min
When the Bible speaks of “truth,” it refers ultimately to God himself. Therefore, truth demands more than just our minds — truth will have our whole hearts, now and forever.
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When You Pray: Speaking to God Alone and Together
24 juli 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
David Mathis | Our God isn’t just a speaking God — he’s a listening God. Whether we come to him in secret or side by side, God delights to hear his people pray.
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We Read to Get God: Scripture as the Chief Means of Grace
24 juli 2024 · 56 min
David Mathis | When Christians read the Bible, we’re after more than understanding God’s words. We’re after enjoying God’s Word. We’re after Jesus.
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Go Where God Walks: The Everyday Paths of Astonishing Grace
24 juli 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
David Mathis | God does not leave us to ourselves after saving us. His grace continues to flow to us through his appointed means: Bible reading, prayer, and fellowship.
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Know Your Covenant: Christian Habits for the New Era
10 juli 2024 · 51 min
David Mathis | The new covenant is not a renewed, updated, or expanded covenant — it is actually new. And the new-covenant era calls for new-covenant habits.
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His Power, Your Body, Our Home: Three Marks of Christian Citizens
6 juli 2024 · 38 min
David Mathis | In this earthly life, Christians do more than wait for heaven. We belong to heaven, find our hope in heaven, and serve the King of heaven.
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The Fullest, Longest Happiness: For Those Who Pass the Test
3 juli 2024 · 39 min
God never tests his saints with ill intent. As the Father of lights, his every test aims at the full and lasting happiness of his children.
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Lord, Savior, and Treasure: The Complex Beauty of Jesus Christ
26 juni 2024 · 30 min
David Mathis | In Jesus, we find the complex beauty our hearts were made to behold: meekness and majesty, nearness and transcendence, the might of the Lion and the mercy of the Lamb.
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Work Out What Christ Has Won: The Christian Life as Gift and Duty
19 juni 2024 · 42 min
David Mathis | The everyday Christian life is both a gift and a duty. By God’s own indwelling power, we work out what Christ has won.
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What Is It Like to ‘Know Christ’?
12 juni 2024 · 42 min
David Mathis | The Christian life has one final aim: to know and enjoy Jesus. He justified us to know him, we daily press on to know him more, and one day we will know him fully and forever.
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How to Win a Fight: Heavenly Wisdom for Relational Conflict
5 juni 2024 · 30 min
Marshall Segal | What counsel does the book of James offer for our relationships? Submit to God, ask for wisdom, temper your words, calm your anger, and embrace godly community.
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When God Listens: His Ear and Our Access
29 mei 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
David Mathis | When we stop and look, we find that we know a lot more about Jesus’s spiritual disciplines than we might think. What can we learn from the prayer life of the Savior?
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How Church Rescues: Christ’s Body as His Means
22 mei 2024 · 59 min
David Mathis | When we think of spiritual disciplines, we might immediately think of our time alone with God, but the Christian faith is a community project. We all need the body of Christ.
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Where Jesus Travels: Introducing the Means of Grace
15 mei 2024 · 50 min
David Mathis | Whomever God justifies, he also sanctifies. What means has he given us to keep growing in holiness?
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The Safest Soul in All the World: Rejoicing in the Risen Christ
14 april 2024 · 34 min
David Mathis | The safest soul in all the universe is the one that rejoices in the risen Christ. God will never destroy those who delight in his Son.
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Where Does Technology Come From? 2024 Scudder Lecture
7 april 2024 · 44 min
Tony Reinke | How should Christians orient toward technology? Should we ignore it, embrace it, be suspicious of it, or shun it altogether?
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Before Division Comes: A Playbook for Pastoral Unity
31 maart 2024 · 44 min
David Mathis | Even among pastor-elder teams, conflict comes. Disagreements are inevitable. How then might we navigate conflict with a constant eye toward God-honoring unity?
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The Word of God Kept Him: Funeral Message for Sidney Boyd (1948–2023)
28 maart 2024 · 14 min
Why do God’s people wake up as believers day after day until they die? Because the same word that made us goes on keeping us to the end.
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Live Like Death Is Gain
20 maart 2024 · 40 min
Marshall Segal | How can we make Jesus look good in life and in death? By enjoying him as better than anything life could ever give — and better than anything death could ever take.
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The Thickest Joy on Earth: Why We Love Philippians
17 maart 2024 · 35 min
David Mathis | Why do so many Christians love the book of Philippians? Among other reasons, because the letter is brief, accessible, memorable, and teeming with joy.
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The Most Important People in the World: Why Christians Prioritize the Church
10 maart 2024 · 59 min
David Mathis | The Father prioritizes the church by choosing her, the Son prioritizes her by purchasing and purifying her, and the Spirit prioritizes her in his power. So, how do we prioritize the church?
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Leaders in the Church: Speaking and Living God’s Word
3 maart 2024 · 56 min
Does church leadership seem endlessly complicated? Take heart. Christian leaders guide God’s people from where they are to where God wants them to go, using God’s methods.
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How Jesus Knew the Word: His Secret to Scripture Memory
29 februari 2024 · 19 min
David Mathis | How did Jesus know Scripture so well? The same way we can today: through patient, prayerful meditation on the word of God.
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Only One Life: Christ’s Invincible Gospel and Global Mission
25 februari 2024 · 47 min
God is sovereign, and he has purposed his gospel to spread to the ends of the earth. Those who give themselves to that purpose are invincible, even through suffering.
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How Jesus Met with God: The Pace and Patterns of a Perfect Life
17 februari 2024 · 18 min
David Mathis | Jesus had a full and fruitful ministry, but unlike us, he never seemed hurried or frantic. What can we learn by observing his holy habits during his earthly life?
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His Voice in Yours: How Christ Wins the World
21 januari 2024 · 34 min
God will have worshipers from every nation on earth. He will win them, and do so through us. We have only to tell them.
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How to Please a Happy God: Six Glimpses of the Christian Life
14 januari 2024 · 44 min
David Mathis | What does it look like to walk in a way that is pleasing to God — to live so that God delights in the aroma of our lives?
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Gain What You Cannot Lose: The Joy of World Mission with Jesus
7 januari 2024 · 38 min
When Christ calls us to the mission field with him, he calls us to deny shallow pleasures, die to ourselves, and enjoy greater and greater delight in him.
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One Countercultural Calling: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 3
27 december 2023 · 53 min
David Mathis | Of the fifteen elder qualifications, “one-woman man” and “not quarrelsome” may be the two most at odds with our promiscuous, petty age.
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Two Main Tasks in Ministry: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 2
20 december 2023 · 48 min
David Mathis | Scripture says elders should be “able to teach” and “sober-minded” — but why? The two correspond to a pastor’s most important tasks: feeding and leading.
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Two Ways to Deal with Jesus: Learning Worship from the Wise Men
19 december 2023 · 10 min
Matthew’s Christmas story shows two ways to deal with Jesus: try to get rid of him like Herod, or fall down and worship him like the wise men.
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Three Contrasts in a Leader’s Heart: Good and Happy Pastors, Part 1
13 december 2023 · 50 min
David Mathis | What does Christ call church leaders to be and do? Like him, they labor heartily and happily, not for selfish gain, but for their people’s joy.
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Christmas Was and Christmas Is: The Whole Story of Advent
10 december 2023 · 39 min
David Mathis | How do you need God’s help this Advent? What need seems most pressing? Press into the message of Christmas, and you’ll find hope and help in time of need.
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If God Speaks: One Voice That Changes Everything
6 december 2023 · 50 min
David Mathis | To read the Bible is to read the very words of God. Do we grasp the significance, the reality-shaking impact, of this seemingly simple truth?
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Jesus Came to Save: Ten Great Realities of Christmas
3 december 2023 · 39 min
The birth of John the Baptist was great, but the birth of Jesus Christ was infinitely greater. John prepared for salvation, but Jesus purchased it.
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Man of War and Grace: The Greatest of Israel’s Kings
25 november 2023 · 34 min
David Mathis | Some may not think of David, the shepherd king, as particularly masculine, but Scripture paints him in a far more manly and glorious light.
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Do Not Believe Every Spirit: The Threat and Defeat of False Teaching Today
27 oktober 2023 · 36 min
Are biblical warnings about false prophets still relevant? Yes, the threat looms as large today as in the first century.
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Before You Quit the Ministry: Learning to Count Like Jesus
26 oktober 2023 · 48 min
David Mathis | Good pastors are not naive: ministry comes with many costs. Even so, Christ has not called us to an impossible, joyless task. The cross proves otherwise.
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What’s It Like to Be a Christian? Faith, Obedience, and Living as Strangers
8 oktober 2023 · 40 min
David Mathis | What is Christian faith? Hebrews 11 not only answers the question but tells us what faith feels like, and how it leads to obedience, and living as exiles in this world.
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Whose Son Is the Messiah? King David and the God of Israel
30 september 2023 · 39 min
When Jesus asks the Pharisees how David calls the Messiah “Lord,” they refuse to answer. What made that seemingly simple question so incendiary?
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God Is: The Life-Altering Reality of Sheer Divine Existence
25 september 2023 · 38 min
God is. No reality is more mind-boggling, more valuable, more life-altering, more electrifying than the absolute being of God.
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Grace Will Order All Your Pain: Retirement Message for Dana Olson
20 augustus 2023 · 43 min
What is sovereign, sustaining grace? It is not grace that spares us pain, but grace that orders our pain — and then sustains us through the pain.
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The Leader You Long to Follow
13 augustus 2023 · 40 min
David Mathis | From principals to presidents, leadership failures fill the news. We long for someone in power to lead with wisdom and fairness. Praise God, the ideal king has come.
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The Spell That Opened Heaven: Funeral Message for Daniel Fuller (1925–2023)
29 juli 2023 · 24 min
Romans 8:32 is perhaps the greatest verse in the Bible. No other text quite describes how far God has gone for our salvation and will go for our joy.
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The Final Hours of Suffering: Funeral Message for Nancy Nelson (1952–2023)
7 juni 2023 · 25 min
God’s word speaks to the mysteries of suffering. We will only bear pain well as we begin to see it like he does.
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Happy Pastors Make Healthy Churches
28 mei 2023 · 41 min
Christ’s blood bought more than our pardon, precious as it is. His death also purchased the power we need to live a radical Christian life.
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Why We Sing About the Blood
21 mei 2023 · 40 min
David Mathis | Why do Christians sing about blood? Because of what happened at the cross, the otherwise morbid topic becomes one of glory, thanks, and praise.
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More Thrilling to Be Saved Than to Succeed
19 mei 2023 · 19 min
What excites a Christian most? Our deepest, truest joy does not flow from completed degrees or flourishing ministries, but from the God who saved us.
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Do Outsiders Still Matter? An Overlooked Qualification for Pastors
7 mei 2023 · 38 min
David Mathis | For pastors to be “well thought of by outsiders” certainly isn’t everything, but it made God’s list of requirements. Is it still on ours?