Because God sympathizes with us and wants us to experience his power and dignity and image alive and at work in us, he becomes one of us and shows us…

Have you ever heard of a scapegoat? In philosophy, a scapegoat is someone everyone else decides to blame for all their troubles. If you imagine a pre-industrialized village where all…

Mnemonic devices are little strings of words we use to help us remember big concepts. I often find them very helpful in wading through the vast stores of scriptural knowledge…

Victory isn’t about getting what you want. It’s about getting what God wants in you and loving it. It’s his victory, not yours. He died on the cross to spare…

None of the dark powers understood why Christ came into the world. If they had, they wouldn’t have pinned him to the cross (see 1 Corinthians 2.8). Maybe these dark…

God wants to establish his lordship over the cosmos through us. He wants his bride to reign with him (2 Timothy 2.12; Revelation 5.10, 20.6). This was the plan from…

Despair is the enemy of victory. In war, if two equal and opposing sides cannot be differentiated by anything other than morale, the sad side loses. Period. It’s the same…

Two spiritual clichés come closest to the point, but miss it still. The first, “we are all on a spiritual journey,” correctly indicates that the spiritual life is gradual, ever-progressing,…