Matt Emerson and Brandon Smith explain what the doctrine known as the inseparable operations of the Trinity is all about.

God's mission is what the triune God is doing in the world to save sinners. That's different than Christian witness: the way we participate in what God is doing.

When it comes to joy, we are all about it. And this is not problematic; God has created us to be joy seekers. The problem is when we seek joy in the wrong places.

The book of Matthew provides us with one of the most familiar accounts in the Bible of the birth and infancy of Jesus: Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, ...

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every ...

The Ten Commandments are found in Exodus 20:1–17 (and restated in Deut. 5:6–21). Although Jesus talks about the Sabbath commandment in the Gospels, the New Testament authors never quote or affirm the ...

Martin Luther knelt before the altar in the monastery chapel. This was the official ceremony when Martin was made a monk. “What do you seek here?” asked a priest leading the service. “God’s grace, and ...

Christians care about Christmas because it marks the beginning of the gospel, the beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ. If you think about how the Gospel writers introduce their Gospels—Matthew, ...

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. —2 Corinthians 8:9 It is here, in the thing ...

My favorite Christmas text puts humility at the heart of Christmas. So this Christmas I am marveling at Jesus’s humility and wanting more of it myself. I’ll quote the text in a moment. But first there ...