Does David's Faithlessness Nullify the Faithfulness of God?

When life gets big, it's easy for our fickle hearts and minds to make God seem small. In Job’s story, his life got big and scary very quickly. Throughout his journey, God didn’t speak to him until the last five chapters of the book. God’s speech to Job didn’t offer explanations for his suffering, rather He reminded Job of who He is and how sovereign and powerful He is. In every season, it’s good t...

I grew up in the “Radical” era of Christianity as a teenager. A faithful young man discipled my friends and I by going through David Platt’s book Radical. I love that book and even taught it to youth as a young man. It made me ask the serious question: would I still follow Jesus if I did not have anything? It gave examples of real Christians who had to hide and travel long distances to gather for ...

The Law of Leviticus boils down to this, and Jesus’ explanation and interpretation of the new covenant also has it at its core: Love your neighbor as yourself. This command in the 19th chapter of Leviticus is cited in three of the four Gospels as Jesus reiterates to the Jews the most important commandment - for it sums up the Law. But what I find interesting is that Jesus doesn’t seem to be tellin...