God is love, but God is also light and truth and just.  He is a God who is merciful and forgiving, but who will by no means clear the guilty.  Jesus is not only the Savior of sinners but the Judge of all men.  This is why the tru...

In personal relationships, resentment is an accountant who keeps a record of wrongs, but love is a firefighter that quenches relational fires big and small.  We see this most beautifully and supremely in Jesus Christ and His death on the C...

What happens in your heart when someone wrongs you? In this profound exploration of 1 Corinthians 13:5, we discover the supernatural quality of love that remains unshaken even when deeply wounded. "Love is not irritable or easily provoked" chal...

Jesus concludes The Lord's Prayer in Matthew with "For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever.  Amen."  This closing praise to God our Father who is King, who is in control, and who gets the glory.  Spoiler ale...

A friend of ours lives in the mountains of Tennessee.  One morning she walked out early into the dark onto her porch, only to realize there was a bear at the edge of her porch.  She quickly proceeded back inside.  But do you real...

Have you ever considered that your soul can live and act without your body but your body cannot live and act without your soul?  In this fifth petition of The Lord's Prayer Jesus teaches us that the vital importance of caring, not just for...

Jesus teaches us to pray for daily bread.  Not weekly, monthly, or yearly, but daily.  Daily bread.  Not filet mignon, sea bass, or chicken fettuccine alfredo, but bread.  If we are experiencing discontent, grumbling, or fil...

What gives life ultimate meaning and purpose?  What will make the way you live your life today matter in 500 years, or 500,000 years, or 500 million years?  How do we face personal tragedy and suffering and death?  There is only ...

Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem on Sunday, at the beginning of what we call Passion Week.  Why is Jesus' riding of a donkey into Jerusalem so important, for it is recorded in all four Gospels?  Jesus was "crossing the Rubicon" for ...

What is your favorite food?  Jesus told us what His favorite was in John 4:34, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work" (ESV).  This third petition of The Lord's Prayer reminds us we need to align ours...

We cannot understand what is going on inside of us or in the world around us unless we understand that we live in a world where there is a clash of kingdoms--the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan, the kingdom of light and the kingdom of d...

What is the purpose of a coffee maker?  It certainly isn't designed to make ham sandwiches.  It's purpose is to brew coffee.  That's why it was created.  What is the purpose of an adopted child of God our Father?  Jesus...

How we spend our money tells us where our heart is--what we value, desire, and love. It tells us what we think is worth a sacrifice. In a similar way, how we pray tells us what we think of God, ourselves, Christ's church, our neighbor, and the ...

The Lord's Prayer does not simply show us how to pray.  It is a blueprint for living and giving to the glory of God.  See you Sunday as we begin to explore together this great prayer Jesus taught us.

The home where we have lived and the citizenship of the country we live in profoundly shapes our values, beliefs, life perspective, desires, goals, and dreams, even when we are away from our home and even when we are residing in a different cou...

What do you think of God's Church?  What do you think about Westtown Church?  What difference might it make if you and I saw God's Church, including Westtown Church, the way Christ sees her?  The Bible shows us.  Let's think...

Years ago there was a wonderful little book written by J.B. Phillips called Your God is Too Small. It's what Martin Luther meant when he said to Erasmus in the 16th century, "Your God is too human [like]." The LORD Himself puts it like this in ...

Jesus alone is the Head of God's Church and the King of God's kingdom.  As the risen King, He has a kingdom on earth that He is building that is concentrated in the local church.  Our Lord rules His kingdom on earth through His divine...

How you treat my wife is how you treat me. To injure or love my wife is to injure or to love me. When Saul, the hate-filled persecutor of the early church who later became the Apostle Paul, was confronted by the risen Lord Jesus Christ, He did ...

There was once a man who went and bought a very expensive piano for his home.  No one in his family knew how to play piano nor did he have any intention of learning piano.  But there the piano sat, for years, gathering dust.  God...

It is one thing to be thirsty and know you need water to live.  It is another thing altogether to know where to find that life-giving and life-sustaining water.  It is one thing to know you are a sinner and to find your hope in the so...

What is the secret of becoming better lovers at home, in the church, and of our neighbors in the community?  Speaking of the sinful woman who wet Jesus' feet with her tears, wiped them with her hair, kissed them and anointed them with expe...

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Advent is a time of anticipation, and this year we’re celebrating the “God of Wonders.” The Christmas story is about the miraculous birth of Jesus but also about the supernatural ways God works in the lives of ordinary people for our good and f...