I find that many people entertain mistaken ideas about what spiritual maturity involves. They are not growing as rapidly as they could, or they are caught on a level far below where they should be, because they misunderstand what spiritual maturity is and how one grows in grace. The first thing we need to understand […]

A Christian is not something you are, it is something you become. You don’t automatically become an adult at a certain age. In order to be an adult, you have to act like an adult. So, too, you do not automatically become a Christian because of going to church, or the family you are born […]

Many people have little sense of the ever-present, always active, all-powerful, promise-keeping redeemer who is the God of the Gospel. The gospel presents God as my ever-present help in trouble in Psalm 46. God is working in every situation to deliver me from the bondage to sin in my heart, and to help me experience […]