Our Life's Comfort

As an article of faith, we trust that God will not hold our sins against us because of the sacrifice of his Son. This is a precious truth.

As an article of faith, we trust that God will not hold our sins against us because of the sacrifice of his Son. This is a precious truth.

What do Jesus’s words mean for people who have never prayed for food with anything like a sense of panic?

“I just know it’s God’s will.” Have you ever heard that phrase used as a spiritualized version of “I want this”?

My prayers are often too small. Maybe yours are too. I need the second petition of the Lord’s Prayer to cosmically expand my prayer focus.

To pray rightly we must know why we exist. The four words of the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer raise several important questions.

Is there a right way to begin a prayer? To ask it differently, is there a proper way to think about God when we pray?

Prayer is the heart’s sincere and grateful reflex to God’s lavish grace. Three questions can help us learn from Jesus the basics of biblical prayer.

How can the command that seems the least outwardly harmful be the most revealing?

The eighth commandment regulates how we do our jobs and use our possessions as part of how we glorify God by loving our neighbors.

The eighth commandment regulates how we do our jobs and use our possessions as part of how we glorify God by loving our neighbors.

Believers agree with the seventh commandment. But how do we practice it?