Look at the Book

When we read commands and obligations, we are being summoned to become in experience what we are in Christ.

We are going to win this race. We are going to get the crown. Not because we are great runners, but because Christ has made us his own.

Pursue, strain forward, press on. God wants us to put all energy into making it to the end, not revisiting the life we had before we started the race.

Devote your whole life to this one pursuit: attaining the fullest possible experience of Christ imaginable.

God wants to give his children the assurance that they will be saved. But not the kind of assurance that ignores the warnings along the way.

The crown of life belongs to those who seek holiness, who hold fast to Christ, who finish the race. The crown of life belongs to Christians.

We do God no favors by excusing him from being sovereign over evil. But we can steal confidence from his children that nothing happens to them without a purpose.

Planning becomes sinful when we presume whatever we schedule will come to pass. Preface all of life with “If the Lord wills.”

God’s sovereignty means he reigns over every trial. And his love means that he intends them all for our good and his glory.

Don’t get discouraged if the fight against sin seems endless. The fight is necessary, the fight is winnable, and the fight will end.

Christian, God is working in your suffering. He is working Christlikeness, working trust, working to draw you closer to himself.

God gives us power — not to escape or avoid suffering — but to endure suffering while looking to Christ.

In this life, we will suffer. And through that suffering, we will know Christ in a way nothing else can provide.

The Bible speaks of deep suffering in the last days. Does it also promise that God will spare believers from it through the rapture?

The most spectacular event in history is coming: the earthly coronation of the King, the rising of the dead, the climax of all human history.