Have you ever wondered why Psalm 91 came up in Jesus’ wilderness temptations?

Paul’s ending words in his epistle to the Romans sum up everything he said in one simple phrase: “the obedience of faith” (Rom. 16:26). He began the epistle in the same way when he said, “through [Christ] we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations” (Rom. 1:5).

In Romans 12, the apostle Paul uses a very intriguing word in his introduction to the practical matters related to God’s righteousness.

What is the blessing promised to Abraham in Genesis 12? Just about the first thing God says to Abraham is that He will bless him, “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.” (Gen. 12:2).

In today’s reading from Jeremiah 17, we have that well-known verse about the deceitfulness of the human heart – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (v9).

When “Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’” (Matt. 27:46) on the cross, why did some of them think that Jesus was calling for Elijah? – “This man is calling Elijah.” (v47)?

Jesus was willing to lose everything in this world for the sake of you and me. When we face temptation or trials, what do we do about it? The example of Christ is to keep relying on the voice of God and the ministry of angels. Even if everyone else forsakes us, God never will

When our Lord returns, we’re going to stand before his judgment-seat.

Sis. Kate Russell (Verdugo Hills) shares with us this touching story that reminds us of one of the foundational aspects of our religion – the care of those most in need.

It’s probably a good thing we don’t know the precise time when Jesus will return. Understanding human nature, we would delay as long as we could before getting ourselves ready.

Matthew 23 contains a brutal attack from Jesus against the Pharisees. He doesn’t hold back saying, “Woe to you” six times with damning evidence of their hypocrisy each time.

If you received an invitation in the mail to enter the Kingdom of God, would you throw the invitation away?