Topic: God’s Attributes
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The Reality of God’s Law: Why Morality Exclusively Belongs to the Christian God
An apologetics message asking what standard makes anything truly good or bad, and showing that only the Triune God can ground real morality.
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The Self-Contained God
God did not create man because He was lonely. He is self-contained and in need of nothing, and the knowledge of Him is inescapable for every person.
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God Made All Things Possible
Is anything too difficult for the Lord? No one can change his own heart, but God does something new and gives His people newness of life.
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Teach Us to Number Our Days
Moses’ prayer in Psalm 90 teaches believers to count their days honestly so that they may gain a heart of wisdom.
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Obedience
Christ’s willing obedience calls believers to whole-hearted obedience of their own, and there is no neutral ground before God: everyone is already a slave either to sin or to righteousness.
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The Great Paradox: Why Do the Wicked Prosper?
Asaph nearly stumbled when he saw the wicked prosper, until he entered the sanctuary of God and found that God Himself is his portion forever.
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God Watches Over His People
From Psalm 33 and the life of King Asa, a lesson on the Lord whose eyes are on those who fear Him and who fights for those who trust Him.
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God Is Faithful
From the suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 to Peter’s restoration by the Sea of Galilee, God’s faithfulness is traced through Scripture as the ground of hope and salvation.
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The Counsel of the Lord
The Lord frustrates the plans of the nations, but His own counsel stands forever, as the stories of Ahithophel and Haman show.
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Rejoicing in God’s Creation
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made. A lesson from Psalm 33 on the vastness of the universe and the care that made the earth a home for life.
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The Faithfulness of God
From Psalm 12’s lament over a world short on faithful men, to Jesus meeting a failed, denying Peter again at the Sea of Galilee, this two-part message traces God’s faithfulness to unfaithful people.
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God Is Gracious
A survey of God’s graciousness — in common grace to all creation, in the discipline He gives His children, and in how that graciousness can be presumed upon and abused.