My list of the best books I read in 2016
Where is Your Faith?
How could sin seem a better option? Because sin bends our hearts toward sin. We are not good people who do bad things from time to time. We are bad people who do good things by the power of the Spirit.
If You Hear His Voice
“Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
Jesus, Better than Moses
Jesus is an apostle, High Priest, faithful, appointed, worthy of more glory, worthy of honor, builder of the house of God, builder of all things, Son, and our hope.
The Prophetic Husband - Part 3 - How We Say What God Says
Here’s how we nourish. Your wife needs to hear you say, "I love you." Your wife needs to hear you say, "God loves you." Would Eve have taken the fruit if Adam was whispering against Satan's lies?
The Prophetic Husband - Part 2 - What God Says
Your marriage is a metaphor for the gospel. God tells us that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church. We should nourish and cherish her. We do this in many ways but one way is by opening our mouths to speak the word of God to our wives. We are to be like Jesus: bringing the gospel in.
The Prophetic Husband - Part 1 - What We Say
Why do we feel so inadequate communicating to our wife? That feeling of inadequacy is a result of the fall. In Genesis 3, we see that God holds Adam responsible for Eve’s actions. Why? Because Adam was charged with leading his wife. “The husband is the head of the wife, as the head of every man is Christ” (1 Cor. 11:3). We still feel that failure.
How to Grow Next Year
Most of us want to grow. We are dissatisfied with some part of our life. Some of us are dissatisfied with most parts of our life. We can take one of two paths. We can just settle into the "this is as good as it gets" mindset, or we can plan to grow.
When Jesus Draws Near
How do you do the Lord's work in the Lord's way when God feels distant? How do you get back into the presence of a God whom you've talked about but not talked to?
We Need Someone to Help Us
The school of Christ’s suffering has become the nursery for your wounded heart. Where he was hurt, you can be healed. Jesus allowed his flesh to be broken so that when ours breaks his pierced hands can put us back together.