Sovereignty, Love, and Our Children

I understand there is a long history of disagreement, even hatred, between the Protestant and Catholic churches, and so I write this blog with a little hesitancy, but I recently attended a Catholic funeral of the father of my son's friend. It was enlightening and...

The Disciples' Model Prayer The Lord’s Prayer, or what might better be called the disciple’s model prayer, was one prayer that the Lord himself never prayed nor, in fact, could have, as in asking forgiveness for personal sin.  It’s very appropriate to pray the...

How do you measure your worth? Is your dignity based on what you do? And do you judge other people based on what they do, and not who they are? This topic of worth, of dignity, is one of the main truths to come out of the story of creation in chapter 1 of Genesis. On Day...

Ephesians 4:29 says, “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen” (NIV). Our speech is not to tear down but to build people up. Our words should...

Psalm 39 helps us put life in perspective by asking God to teach us that our lives are short and that meaning in life is found only in God. Let’s walk through the Psalm. David knows that the pain he is experiencing is because of his own sin, and the punishment for that...

Life has a way of making God small in our eyes. We go through painful times, or get busy and focused on the details of life, or we become overly-impressed with ourselves and think we are in fact the center of the universe. There are many things that can make God seem...

Suffering is temporary There are two things Peter wants to say about suffering: First of all, it’s only for a little while. He’s going to say that we need to get a perspective on things. Remember, we are not living with our heads down; we are living as people looking...

Of all the 613 Mosaic commands, of all the things we can do today and tomorrow, the most important is to love God (Mark 12:29–30). There are many things about this that we can understand. Love is deeply emotional and motivates us to obey; they are not the same thing but...

I have been involved in higher education for most of my life. I come from a long line of teachers. My father was a professor. I taught at the university and graduate level, and now I help run BiblicalTraining.org, the greatest repository of biblical teaching the world...

Dr. Bill Mounce, Question: We had talked earlier about whether we are doing things for our kingdom or for the Lord's Kingdom and what hit me was the whole reality that we could be so self-deceived. And I know you touched on that, but at a real practical level how can you...