Bible Studies
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Most Recent Studies
A Faithful Shepherd (Amos 7:1–17)
I look forward to meeting Amos. Unlike many so-called prophets in his day, Amos was faithful to the Lord, his shepherd, and therefore was a faithful shepherd to God’s flock, the people of God, the people of Israel. As our text reminds us, Amos was both a literal and a...
Not a Drunkard (1 Timothy 3:3a)
We continue our series through the qualifications in 1 Timothy 3, which don’t just mark out a qualified overseer or elder, but really give us a roadmap to mature as a congregation, to grow in our holiness and to become within a watching world a blameless congregation...
Woeful Complacency (Amos 6:1–14)
A dictionary definition of complacency is “self-satisfaction, especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual danger or deficiencies.” Perhaps you have seen footage of athletes celebrating their victory prematurely before being passed at the finish line. Unaware...
Loving Strange Souls (1 Timothy 3:2f)
There is a well-known story about a lawyer who came to Jesus and asked how he could obtain eternal life (Luke 10:25–37). Jesus, in his wisdom, asked the lawyer, “What does the law say?” The lawyer responded: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and...
Love Like Your Father (Matthew 5:43–48)
We live in a fallen world. This is an obvious truth for all of us. But I want to focus on one particular way this reality is revealed: Our world is obsessed with payback. We are consumed with getting even. This obsession shows up everywhere—from workplace politics to...
Things Above (Colossians 3:1–4)
Paul begins the letter to the Colossians with greetings and prayers in chapter 1, then delivers some of the richest teaching in the whole Bible about Jesus Christ. He continues with this teaching in chapter 2, addressing false teachers and their impact. Our passage...